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WASHINGTON — U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries got one step closer to becoming the next speaker after Democrats delivered a sweeping victory in the midterm elections. If elected by a majority of House members, Jeffries would make history as the first Black person to hold the gavel. The 56-year-old Brooklynite…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Building on gains in 2022, Democrats have continued to make headway in Western Michigan as state Sen. Sean McCann (D-Kalamazoo) claimed victory Wednesday against U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland Township) for his seat in Congress. Unofficial results from the Associated Press, which has yet to officially call the…
DETROIT — Michigan will have a new Democratic Party majority in the state Legislature after Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial returns. The party and its top incumbent officials in the state Legislature declared victory on Wednesday morning after it became clear that they would have a new trifecta, as…
In the early hours Wednesday morning, former prosecutor Christina Hines announced her victory over Army National Guard veteran Michael Bouchard Jr. While the Associated Press had not officially called the race when Hines declared victory at 3:52 a.m., unofficial results at 4:01 a.m. showed Hines with a 5.5 percentage…
In a tight race for Michigan’s politically purple 7th Congressional District, Lansing area political organizer William Lawrence has declared himself the victor against incumbent Congressman Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte). Lawrence’s campaign shared their proclamation of victory at 2:49 a.m., though the Associated Press had…
Democrats have won the majority of governor’s offices for the first time in 16 years after the GOP racked up major losses across the country. Democrats flipped governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas and defended competitive races in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to unofficial results from…
Defying Democrats’ efforts to rally support in northern Michigan, U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet) has won reelection in the state’s 1st Congressional District, defeating Traverse City attorney Callie Barr. When the Associated Press called the race at 1:09 a.m., unofficial results showed Bergman had won 53.2% of…
DETROIT – Democratic nominee and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit has won the race for Michigan Attorney General, defeating Republican nominee Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd by a margin of 51.8% to 45.5% as of 2:28 a.m. Wednesday, the time at which the Associated Press called the race. “This campaign started…
Democratic nominee and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II has won the race for Michigan Secretary of State, defeating Republican nominee and Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini by a margin of nearly eight percentage points as of 2:00 a.m., the time at which the Associated Press called the race. “The biggest difference…
DETROIT — The progressive wave sweeping the nation reached its crest in Michigan early Wednesday as Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, declared victory Republican former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers. “We just showed them that a movement of the people, by the people, and for the people will ultimately win,”…
In local elections across the country, Americans voted overwhelmingly to restrict the buildout of data centers in their communities. Late Tuesday evening, 33 ballot measures to restrict data centers were passed by voters or were leading in ongoing vote counts, according to the tracking website Data Centers on the…
Democratic nominee and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has declared victory in Michigan’s gubernatorial election, addressing supporters early Wednesday in Detroit. “This election, from the western reaches of the Upper Peninsula to downtown Detroit, voters sent a clear message: They want leaders who will fight for…
Democratic-nominated incumbents Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Noah Hood have won reelection. The race was called just after 1 a.m. Wednesday by the Associated Press, at which point Cavanagh and Hood won 33.8% and 29.1% of the vote, respectively. While the race is nonpartisan on the ballot…
This story has been updated. Democrat Troy Jackson declared victory in the U.S. Senate race after five-term incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins called and conceded the race. “If you’re sitting at the table after work wondering how you’re going to pay the next bill, I want you to hear something very clearly…
Georgia voters elected the nation’s first Black woman governor on Tuesday while neighbors to the south in Florida became the first to elect a Black Republican governor. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades. In Florida, Republican…
State Rep. Donavan McKinney (D-Detroit) will succeed U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar to represent Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. McKinney defeated Republican T.P. Nykoriak with 75.5% of the vote, according to unofficial results shared by the Associated Press, which called the race at 10:33 p.m.. Michigan Democratic…
Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-Bloomfield) emerged victorious against Troy Mayor Ethan Baker, receiving 59.6% of the vote, according to unofficial results shared by the Associated Press at 9:33 p.m. Moss, the state’s first openly gay state senator, will be Michigan’s first openly LGBTQ+ representative in Congress…
Proposal 2 on Michigan ballots, the “Michiganders for Money Out of Politics” initiative, has passed. The initiative will alter state campaign finance law to ban campaign spending from “regulated electric and gas utilities, contractors with over $250,000 annually in government contracts, and people and organizations…
WASHINGTON — In a stunning upset, Democrats ousted Republicans and flipped control of the U.S. Senate Tuesday night, effectively establishing a barricade for President Donald Trump’s agenda for the last two years of his term. Democrats will now have the power to block many of Trump’s nominees, both executive and…
WASHINGTON — Democrats will regain control of the U.S. House early next year, after voters throughout the country rejected the policies that Republicans and President Donald Trump implemented during the last two years. The Associated Press, which States Newsroom looks to for the projected winner of congressional…
America voted. After the Trump administration pressured election officials, after concerns that armed federal agents would deploy to the polls, after fears U.S. Department of Justice election monitors would intimidate voters — ballots were cast by the millions Tuesday, mostly without incident. Across the United…
Michigan election officials say they contacted the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday after receiving reports that federal election monitors in Dearborn and Flint had questioned poll workers about their training, conduct which state officials said was outside the monitors’ legal authority. Kim Bush, a spokeswoman…
DETROIT— Despite backlash from Democratic lawmakers over U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Detroit-area voters say the move only reinforced their support for Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Aijah Greer, 27, of Detroit told Michigan Advance that it did more…
DETROIT — National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler joined state labor leaders at a Detroit union hall Tuesday morning to rally for Democrats in the final stretch of a midterm election that has drawn national and international scrutiny. Schuler spoke alongside Democratic Attorney General nominee Eli Savit, renowned civil…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2026 midterm elections that will determine control of Congress and shape President Donald Trump’s remaining policy agenda. As of Monday, more than 57 million Americans had cast a vote, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab…
On September 30, 2026, a permitting reform bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate that would significantly weaken the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). The NHPA was passed in 1966 after thousands of historic places around the U.S. were demolished during urban renewal efforts in 1950s and 1960s. The loss of…
While much of the national attention on today’s midterm elections has focused on control of Congress, voters across the country will also choose which party controls the levers of state power. Across the states, more than 6,000 legislative seats are up for grabs, leaving the partisan control of numerous chambers…
Election Day marks the culmination of months of campaigning in Michigan for races that will likely determine party control of crucial seats on both a state and federal level — including the U.S. Senate, governor’s office, a number of key U.S. House races and both chambers of the state Legislature. As of midafternoon…
This story was originally published by Uncloseted Media. On June 5, Democratic Michigan state representative and then-Senate hopeful Haley Stevens posted to Facebook that “Mike Rogers’ record on LGBTQ+ rights is repulsive. He has no business representing Michiganders.” Fast forward to Sunday: Stevens sent shockwaves…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, mere hours before Election Day in the midterms that will determine control of Congress, denied the Trump administration’s final attempt to force California to set aside the ballots of 20,000 people it suspects are noncitizens. The decision marked a significant blow to President Donald…
American democracy faces one of its biggest stress tests of the modern era, as President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections encounters a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day. A cascade of courtroom losses over the weekend dealt a major…
To prevent pregnancy after sex, U.S. teenage girls and young women are more likely to rely on unproven strategies such as prayer, exercise and jumping up and down than they are on evidence-based methods such as Plan B emergency contraception, according to a new study. The study, published in The Journal of Sex…
Fewer than 1 in 20 rental listings across the largest U.S. cities are flagged as reserved for renters under an income limit, according to new data from Apartments.com. But average income-restricted rent fell year over year in 13 of the 50 markets, compared with three for market-rate rent. Just 4.6% of listings across…
For state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia), the decision by U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens to endorse Republican Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate was a “betrayal” and “unconscionable,” a feeling shared by many Democrats — especially in terms of Rogers’ stance on abortion policy. “You either support reproductive rights or you…
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in a last-ditch appeal by the Trump administration to exert control over the state’s vote counting. The request came on the eve of Election Day and as more than 5 million…
This story was originally published by Capital & Main. In the final stretch of the 2026 midterm campaigns, the most potent climate issue in American politics arrived by delivery truck across the country. The average price of heating oil hit $6.23 a gallon for the week of Oct. 26, up from $3.60 a year earlier,
As broad affordability concerns define elections across the country, voters in several states on Tuesday will have a say on their future utility bills. State utility regulators, who are facing heightened levels of attention and scrutiny amid high prices, are on the ballot in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia…
The day was coming to an end, and the GEO sign identifying the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin remained covered with photographs of people who had died while in the hands of immigration enforcement. An offering of flower petals, bread, drinks and candles reflected El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead,
DETROIT — Key Democrats said Sunday they would not let Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers divide the party ahead of Tuesday’s election. Stevens, a sitting member of Congress, was all but formally exorcized by her party after she publicly endorsed Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers over…
Clinton Township has joined the ranks of Michigan communities with a temporary moratorium on data centers. Anne Snabes of The Detroit News reports that the township’s Board of Trustees voted 6-0 to approve a 180-day pause on accepting and processing permitting applications and site plans for data centers within…
Organizers with the Abdul El-Sayed campaign hosted a conversation with Black, Arab and Muslim Americans in Detroit on Sunday afternoon in an effort to unify Democrats in the final stretch before the election. Former U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, state Senate candidate Abbas Alawieh, Michigan United organizer…
Millions of Medicare enrollees who buy stand-alone prescription drug plans will see their average monthly premiums rise by 50% in 2027, a new analysis finds. But enrollees can avoid the average increase — from $34 a month to $51 — by switching to lower-cost plans during the program’s open enrollment period, which runs…
Asma Uddin, Michigan State University; Institute for Humane Studies At a campaign rally, in Port Huron, Michigan, on Oct. 25, 2026, President Donald Trump accused U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of being a “jihadist” who wants to impose Sharia law – Islamic law – in the United States. His comments reflect a…
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the high-water mark of 52.7 million early votes cast…
In some states, ballot measures are expected to be the main force driving voters to the polls in November. Across the country, voters will decide 145 questions during the midterms. Reproductive rights are on the ballot in four states. In California, residents will decide on a “billionaire’s tax,” among other issues…
This story is made possible through a partnership between Interlochen Public Radio and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Efforts to control the invasive “coiled menace” appear to be working, according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. To keep the momentum going amid climate impacts, experts…
Costs are soaring for people who care for their older parents and other family members, according to a new study. Out-of-pocket expenses are nearly 60% higher than they were just five years ago for family caregivers, who now spend an average of $11,508 a year on caregiving, according to a report released this week by
Shannon Oltmann, Wayne State University and Kafi Kumasi Fewer than 10% of Michigan public schools report having a school library staffed with a trained school librarian. Although Michigan strongly recommends that schools employ certified librarians, the state does not require them. In the 2023–24 school year, the…
A federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration demand that California set aside and not count the ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters, setting the stage for a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a U.S…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is rounding out his midterm travel blitz in the final sprint leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3. With just four days to go, the Republican Party is aiming to keep its narrow majority in the U.S. House and control of the Senate. But elections forecasters see a bleak
A reported joint rally ahead of the Nov. 3 election to unify supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens of Birmingham will more than likely be a visit to a Black church in Detroit and not an event widely open to the public or press, although El-Sayed is set
As the Trump administration waged a public legal fight with California over the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in mid-October, behind the scenes a federal grand jury in Santa Ana issued a series of subpoenas to election officials in Los Angeles County at federal prosecutors’ urging. The subpoenas demanded a…
State Rep. Sean McCann (D-Kalamazoo), who is seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga in Michigan’s 4th Congressional District, has been endorsed by six former Republican members of Congress, including former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-New Hampshire) and former U.S. Reps. Jim Greenwood (R-Pennsylvania), Claudine…
WASHINGTON — As of early Friday, more than 46 million Americans had cast ballots ahead of Election Day, eclipsing the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. In the 2022 midterm elections, 45.9 million Americans voted early, according to the UF Election Lab…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rallies in Kansas and Iowa this weekend are back on after initial cancellations, States Newsroom confirmed Friday. The Midwest rallies mark the final sprint to Election Day on Nov. 3 — now just four days away — where the GOP is itching to maintain its narrow majority in the U.S.
Much of the 2026 election attention has been on Michigan’s must-watch U.S. Senate and congressional races, but the battle for control of the state Legislature has emerged as another major contest. In a highly favorable year for Michigan Democrats, the party is hoping that President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, pegged…
937,461 young adults are living in Michigan. They’re studying, working, caring for families and taking on leadership roles in communities around the state. They’re also showing up for democracy. Young adults have typically voted at lower rates than older adults, mainly due to busy schedules, confusing registration…
This story was originally published by Michigan Public. Ann Arbor for Public Power (A2P2) — the grassroots group behind Proposal E on the city’s upcoming November ballot — has put one lawsuit challenging the ballot question behind it, only to face a second one. Proposal E would establish a new board to direct and…
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere. Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White…
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston grants a partial victory to the 25…
Policy changes intended to tamp down infighting within the Michigan State University Board of Trustees are now drawing legal scrutiny as two of its members have filed complaints in federal court seeking to halt the enforcement of the board’s updated Code of Ethics and Conduct. MSU Trustee Mike Balow on Wednesday filed…
The Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to combat noncitizen voting and assert authority over elections came under intense scrutiny in courtrooms across the country on Thursday, as Democrats and voting rights groups alleged federal election interference. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the U.S…
A hotly competitive U.S. House district in Southwest Michigan saw a flurry of activity from two opposing candidates on Thursday. In the morning, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland Township) joined U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright for a press conference at the Palisades nuclear plant, a once shuttered facility in…
The Michigan Supreme Court issued an order Thursday declining to hear an appeal by the Republican National Convention, the Michigan Republican Party and Chesterfield Township Clerk Cindy Berry in their lawsuit challenging election guidance from Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on how to handle mail-in ballots with…
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens voted Democratic for president by…
It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it emotionally. Teigen, a former model and business owner, came to Idaho on Wednesday to make a
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rally in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday is canceled, the Kansas Republican Party confirmed to States Newsroom. An appearance scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, was also canceled, the Republican National Committee said in a late Thursday press release. In-person rallies packed…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday that Michigan will receive over $7.2 million in a settlement agreement with General Motors, part of a national $220 million settlement over allegations of GM’s sharing of drivers’ private behavior and location data with third parties. Those third parties…
Policy decisions do not happen in isolation, nor are they confined to Capitol Hill or Lansing. Decisions made across all levels of government directly affect Michiganders’ health and livelihoods. From monitoring our food supply to protecting drinking water, scientists help governments identify risks, evaluate possible…
U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All, agreed that a candidate’s stance on abortion can signal a candidate’s beliefs more broadly, with Slotkin calling it a “shorthand for extremism” if a candidate supports an abortion ban, especially one without exceptions. “I…
WASHINGTON — Communities throughout the country have been inundated with television ads and outside spending as politicians try to spur voter turnout in the most competitive U.S. House races in Tuesday’s midterm elections. The focus on a short list of campaigns highlights how much power voters in a small number of…
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Led by members of the marching band and Aggie and Aggietha, the North Carolina A&T State University mascots, hundreds of students at the nation’s largest historically Black university walked 40 minutes from campus to the nearest early polling site on a recent afternoon. They started the journey with…
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here. Around 5 p.m. on the day of the August primary, right as a huge number of voters got off work and headed to the…
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. The decision sets the case on a course to possibly reach the U.S. Supreme Court within days. In a scathing…
With just days remaining in the 2026 election season, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hit the road to help rally support for Democratic candidates running in fierce political battlegrounds. Whitmer joined former prosecutor Christina Hines in Rochester, part of Michigan’s 10th Congressional District, Wednesday…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully scrutinizing naturalized U.S. citizens and placing them at risk of disenfranchisement, civil rights groups alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in California, came as Homeland Security asked for an emergency…
A half-dozen states enacted laws this year changing voting rules for people with felony convictions, including when their rights can be restored and how they can register to vote — affecting voters in next week’s elections. A couple other states advanced measures that will affect such voters in future elections. And…
A Court of Claims ruling Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order instructing local clerks across Michigan to maintain the electronic pollbooks created in the Nov. 3 General Election until an underlying lawsuit brought by Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer and the Michigan Republican Party can be…
A survey of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women and gender-expansive people found nearly half of respondents don’t have a reproductive healthcare provider and more than half don’t know how far they would need to travel for abortion care. About 57% also said they are caregivers to a child or…
Less than a week before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented drive for power over elections has set the stage for a series of courtroom fights that could quickly lead to a high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over the limits of federal authority. Democrats and voting rights advocates have…
My fellow St. Clair County Health Department nurses and I work hard to uphold public health principles and provide much-needed services that our community relies on. But lately, the department has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. That’s because my fellow nurses and I have been trying to rid our workplace of
MERIDIAN, Idaho — It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy. At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but after some research, she thought it was something that could be managed or treated. “If it was a fixable…
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks. President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats…
The U.S. Department of Justice in a federal court hearing Tuesday warned California election officials could be prosecuted if they count ballots cast by noncitizen voters, in a case brought by the Trump administration demanding that the state set aside the ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters. The remark by a…
U.S. Rep. John James’ announcement that he would be leaving Congress to seek a new role as governor of Michigan sparked concern and frustration among party leadership over who would succeed the two-term representative in the southeast Michigan swing district. Encompassing southern Macomb County and a sliver of Oakland…
DETROIT — A day after Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made anti-Arab remarks at a get-out-the-vote rally for Republican candidates in Grand Rapids, he declined to address the comments during a stop in Detroit to promote a new care program for homeless individuals. Kennedy said Monday evening…
DETROIT — As concerns about voter intimidation and election interference grow ahead of Election Day, civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist reassured voters that they can cast their ballots without fear. The two spoke Tuesday morning outside of Wayne County Community College District’s…
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both from Republicans to Democrats. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 34 million people have…
HOWELL — Vice President JD Vance was deployed once again to Michigan on Tuesday in a final push to boost the Republican Party ticket and to attack the Democratic ticket head-on, ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. Both Vance and President Donald Trump have been barnstorming the state to shore up voter enthusiasm…
With one week left until Election Day, Democratic nominee William Lawrence gathered supporters outside of the building that previously held Rep. Tom Barrett’s (R-Charlotte) office as he announced his final push to reach voters within Michigan’s highly competitive 7th Congressional District. “This campaign has always…
This story is made possible through a partnership between Interlochen Public Radio and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. When 83-year-old Sam Getsinger thinks about the future, she pictures her five grandchildren and the world she wants to leave them. An important part of that world, Getsinger said…
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to every state ahead of Election Day, expanding a long-standing practice that’s spurred concern this year among Democrats and voting rights advocates because of President Donald Trump’s push to influence elections. The Justice Department for decades has…
This past summer, a Canadian private equity firm became Michigan’s third-largest landlord to little fanfare. On an earnings call, Brookfield Asset Management disclosed that it had deployed its first investment to purchase YES! Communities, one of the largest manufactured housing owners in the country, with over 80,000…
In the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnancies, according to a new report. Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide…
As days grow shorter and darkness arrives earlier across much of the country, a new study suggests that brighter streetlights may help reduce nighttime violence — at least temporarily. Researchers found that outdoor nighttime violent crime fell by about 46% in targeted areas of Newark, New Jersey, during the first six…
Since 2021, Michigan lawmakers have drafted six community solar bills in the House and Senate under both Republican and Democratic leadership, but no bill has been passed into law. Two separate House bills and two tie-barred Senate bills are currently languishing in committee with no hearings scheduled. Polling shows…
On Nov. 3, Michigan voters will elect two justices to the Michigan Supreme Court. Though those races are listed as nonpartisan on the ballot, all six candidates on the ballot were nominated by political parties. Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Megan Cavanagh and Justice Noah Hood, both nominated by the Democratic…
It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different. Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of their adult son with Down syndrome. They…
Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel is asking television stations around Michigan to stop airing an ad from John James’ gubernatorial campaign paid for by the Michigan Republican Party — using funds that a campaign finance complaint from Hertel and the Democrats say violate campaign finance laws. The money…