Michigan gas prices fall for 10 straight weeks. How long can that last?
by Paula Gardner (Bridge Michigan) Michigan’s average gas price hit $3.88 per gallon last Wednesday, a three-cent decline over the past three days. The drop underscores a quiet but significant 10-week decline in gas prices since they hit a state record in June, though experts say the steady declines could end by Labor Day and […]
Judge issues preliminary injunction to block enforcement of abortion ban
by Lauren Gibbons (Bridge Michigan) County prosecutors won’t be able to enforce Michigan’s decades-old abortion ban while legal challenges continue, a judge ruled Friday. Oakland County Circuit Judge Jacob Cunningham granted a request from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s legal team and issued a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortion. Cunningham said […]
Who is Shane Hernandez, Tudor Dixon’s pick for Michigan lieutenant governor?
by Jonathan Oosting (Bridge Michigan) Michigan Republican gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon announced Friday that she has selected former state Rep. Shane Hernandez of Port Huron to be her running mate. Dixon announced her choice for lieutenant governor by press release around 4pm, roughly one hour before a Michigan Republican Party deadline to submit a name prior to […]
Pedestrian deaths are rising on Michigan roads, the reason is up for debate
by Roni Kane (Bridge Michigan) In August 2021, in the parking lot of a Shop-N-Save in northern Michigan’s Benzie County, a 77-year-old woman was struck and killed by a large pick-up truck. In October, a high school senior walking home from school in Rochester was hit by another student driving through an intersection right next to their high school. […]
Challenges aim to keep abortion, voting proposals off Michigan ballot
by Jonathan Oosting (Bridge Michigan) Conservative groups are fighting to keep Michigan voting and abortion rights proposals off the Nov. 8 ballot, arguing a formatting and omission errors should invalidate petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of registered voters. The Promote the Vote 2022 petition, which would allow for nine days of early voting and […]
One year later Afghan refugees in Michigan finding jobs, still seek asylum
by Ted Roelofs (Bridge Michigan) GRAND RAPIDS — Nearly a year after he fled Afghanistan, Mohammad Amin Haidary still lives in two worlds. There’s the new life he’s trying to build in Grand Rapids, as he beamed with pride after landing a job as project engineer with a local landscaping and land survey firm. But […]
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 […]
