Michigan works to expand who hunts and fishes
by Zahra Ahmad (Bridge Michigan) Mounir Awad is counting the days until November, when he and 27 of his Palestinian friends and cousins head Up North for deer camp. Awad, 62, who now lives in Davison, immigrated to Michigan when was 15 years old. He has fond memories of hunting with his father back in […]
Michigan’s largest public companies raising prices to fuel earnings growth
by Paula Gardner (Bridge Michigan) Buyers hoping to get in line to order Ford Motor Company’s popular all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup learned this week the price of the base model is going up 17.5 percent. The automaker blames inflation for rising costs, like the extra $4 billion it is spending on commodities like steel and aluminum. […]
Rural Michigan schools are considering electric school buses with EPA cash
by Roni Kane, Bridge Michigan 46 Michigan school districts have applied for 155 electric school buses through new EPA grant program Priority for grants is being given to rural schools and low-income areas Clean energy advocates are on a mission to bring more EVs to Michigan schools Bus 167 looks the same as the other […]
CDC loosens COVID rules with new onus on people, not schools, businesses
by Robin Erb , Mike Wilkinson, & Isabel Lohman (Bridge Michigan) The Biden administration further relaxed guidelines Thursday for controlling the spread of COVID, moving away from quarantines, social distancing and other security staples of the pandemic. And in a turn that could have implications for Michigan schools as they begin a new year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
Michigan fast-tracks teaching as second career, but questions about rigor
by Tracie Mauriello, Bridge Michigan Michigan is expanding alternative certificate programs to address a shortage of classroom teachers Candidates are trained in as little as six weeks Some experts say fast-track training is a disservice to the teaching profession and shortchanges students YPSILANTI – Smitha Ramani leaned over a folding table to whisper encouragement to a […]
Invasive spotted lanternfly arrives in Michigan: bad news for wine lovers
by Kelly House (Bridge Michigan) Michigan has joined a growing list of states infected with an invasive fly that has already damaged crops on the east coast and parts of the Midwest and now threatens the state’s wine growers and fruit farmers. The spotted lanternfly, native to eastern Asia, has been detected near a wastewater […]
Rural Michigan fears airline route changes will be ‘disastrous’
by Paula Gardner, Bridge Michigan Some of Michigan’s small airports will lose nonstop service from Delta in September. New routes mean travelers may pay more, compete for seats and face overnight stays in Detroit or Minneapolis to make their connections. Community leaders say the changes come at a cost, especially to business recruitment. In what’s […]
Rising costs make for rough roads for Michigan’s independent truckers
by Ted Roelofs (Bridge Michigan) Richard Van Malsen has been a trucker for a quarter century. But with the price of diesel fuel soaring to near $6 a gallon earlier this summer and still over $5, the cost of trucks doubling and repair parts often hard to come by, he can’t remember tougher times at the small trucking firm […]
Search for suspected hexavalent chromium plume in the Huron River
by Kelly House & Robin Erb (Bridge Michigan) Michigan regulators continue to search for a suspected hexavalent chromium plume in the Huron River near Wixom, after the latest round of water samples turned up none of the toxic metal. Officials with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy cautioned that it’s impossible to draw […]
Michigan voting rights group forms super PAC against ‘election deniers’
by Yue Stella Yu, Bridge Michigan Voters Not Politicians launches a super PAC to defeat ‘election deniers’ in the November election Candidates questioning the 2020 election scored primary victories in legislative, gubernatorial and congressional races The group plans to knock on 300,000 doors and focus on digital and mail ads LANSING — A Michigan voting […]
