Food assistance cuts loom for 1.3 million Michiganders. No legislative action yet
By Yue Stella Yu and Ted Roelofs (Bridge Michigan) LANSING — As food costs rose, Nancy Cromley saw the number of families coming to her for help spike. “In the last couple months, we saw a 17% increase in clients,” Cromley, director of the Green Apple Pantry in Grand Rapids, told Bridge Michigan. Now, Cromley […]
Michigan student loan forgiveness: What to know as Supreme Court steps in
by Isabel Lohman (Bridge Michigan) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on the future of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. Student loan borrowers are waiting to see how justices on the conservative-tilting court will view Biden’s effort to clear college debt for millions of people, a plan halted by lower courts before […]
Michigan’s lousy infrastructure has many begging: Fix the damn noisy roads
by Lauren Gibbons (Bridge Michigan) ANN ARBOR — Deborah Orlowski doesn’t need Siri to tell her what traffic is like on the M-14. She can hear it from inside her house. A small thicket of bushes and trees separates her property from the M-14, a state freeway that stretches from Interstate 94 in Washtenaw County […]
Michigan outraged toxic waste from Ohio derailment shipped to Belleville
by Minnah Arshad (Bridge Michigan) Michigan officials say they are outraged toxic waste from an Ohio train derailment earlier this month has been transported to Wayne County. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell said at a news conference Friday evening that some solid waste was delivered earlier this week to a Wayne County site, and five trucks of liquid […]
MSU shooting update: University to ask state for more security money
by Ron French (Bridge Michigan) Michigan State University will ask the Legislature for funds to help enhance campus security in the wake of a Feb. 13 shooting that left three students dead and another five critically wounded. “We’ve gone from a one- to five-year (security enhancement) plan to a one- to six-month plan,” MSU Board […]
Michigan State shootings: MSU to pay victims’ hospital bills, funeral costs
by Ron French (Bridge Michigan) EAST LANSING – Michigan State University will pay the hospital bills of five students wounded in the Feb. 13 shooting spree on campus, along with the funeral expenses of the three students who died. Interim President Teresa Woodruff made the announcement at a news conference Sunday afternoon that focused primarily […]
Hugs, cookies, freebies and love planned to welcome MSU students back to campus
by Paula Gardner (Bridge Michigan) Hundreds of volunteers will converge on Michigan State University on Sunday, filling the path between the Spartan statue and The Rock with signs and freebies to shower students returning to campus with love. In an effort to ease the transition after Monday’s mass shooting, tables at the event known as Spartan Sunday will […]
For Ann Arbor water managers, ongoing battle to keep toxic chemicals at bay
ANN ARBOR – Brian Steglitz and his staff had only recently gotten a handle on the last surprise contaminant to threaten Ann Arbor’s drinking water system when the call came in about another. A plume of industrial wastewater, thought to be tainted with toxic hexavalent chromium, had entered the Huron River last August after spilling […]
Flying object over Lake Huron shot down. What we know and what we don’t?
by Janelle D. James (Bridge Michigan) While some Michiganders may have been doing some last-minute grocery shopping and preparing for Super Bowl parties on Sunday, the U.S. was tracking down an object flying over the Great Lakes state. A U.S. F-16 fighter jet shot down another unidentified object, this time flying over Lake Huron, according […]
Kristina Karamo to lead Michigan GOP, topping Trump favorite
by Jonathan Oosting (Bridge Michigan) LANSING — Election denier Kristina Karamo will lead the Michigan GOP for the next two years after delegates on Saturday elected her state party chair in a contentious convention vote. Karamo’s victory signals the completion of a years-long grassroots takeover of the Michigan GOP, which is now dominated by a […]
