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Greensky Bluegrass announces mini Michigan tour
The dates include a hometown New Year’s Eve show in Kalamazoo
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Concert Announcements, Music, On Tour, Things to Do, Greensky Bluegrass, Kalamazoo, folk artists from Michigan
Schools see apprenticeship programs as alternatives to college prep
A program in the Kalamazoo Public Schools is aimed at putting students on an alternative track toward well-paying jobs which do not require traditional degrees
By Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection
Tags: Michigan News, Education, Labor, Career Launch Kalamazoo, Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Black woman sues a Wendy’s restaurant in Michigan over ‘Jim Crow era-type discrimination’
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Michigan News, Wendy's, michigan, restaurant, fast food, Kalamazoo, Sophia Cargill, lawsuit, Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act
Ex-Mich. House Speaker Chatfield’s opposition to LGBTQ protections cost him a six-figure job
Tags: Lee Chatfield, LGBTQ, civil rights, Eliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, discrimination, Southwest Michigan First, Kalamazoo, state House
Michigan breathalyzer technician sentenced to 9 months in jail for falsifying documents
Tags: Breathalyzer, Dana Nessel, Michigan Attorney General, Michigan, Kalamazoo, drunken driving, court, sentencing
Whitmer warns of 100 daily coronavirus deaths by year's end without Legislature's help
Tags: Dr. Khaldun, Michigan, coronavirus, Gov. Whitmer, testing, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Upper Peninsula, masks, Legislature, Republicans
Artists create more anti-Trump billboards, street posters to be erected in Michigan cities
Tags: Art, billboards, street art, Shades, Artists United for Change, Detroit, Lansing, Flint, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, President Trump, election
Friends of George Floyd to speak at Kalamazoo's Black Lives Matter protest, including former NBA player
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: News Hits, George Floyd, Kalamazoo, Cornelius Fredricks, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Breonna Taylor
Staff members charged in death of Black teen who screamed 'I can't breathe' at Michigan youth center
Tags: Cornelius Fredericks, foster care, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Lakeside Academy, hospital, death, coronavirus, Jon Marko, civil rights, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Prosecutor Jeff Getting
Pfizer announces clinical trials for potential COVID-19 vaccine made in Michigan
By Scott McClallen, The Center Square
Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Pfizer
Trampled by Turtles’ slow and steady Midwestern work ethic pays off
By Drew Philp
Tags: Local Music, Trampled by Turtles, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Video
Humane Society alleges Michigan animal lab force-fed beagles fungicides
By Will Feuer
Tags: News Hits, Human Society, Michigan, Kalamazoo
Father John Misty, Local Natives headline Audiotree Music Festival in Kalamazoo
Tags: City Slang, Kalamazoo, Detroit, Festival, Father John Misty, Local Natives, Indie, Sub Pop, Video
This Kalamazoo man protesting Groundhog Day is a hero
By Jack Roskopp
Tags: The Scene, Groundhog Day, protests, Kalamazoo
A billboard in Kalamazoo proudly touting Trump was defaced over the weekend
Tags: News Hits, Kalamazoo, Donald Trump, billboards
Enbridge reaches $177 million settlement over Kalamazoo oil spill
By Andrew Withers
Tags: News Hits, Enbridge, oil spill, settlement, Kalamazoo
Video: Kalamazoo cop dances to Tupac at Black Lives Matter walk
Tags: News Hits, Black Lives Matter, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Sheriff
WMU president apologizes to students
Tags: News Hits, Western Michigan University, WMU, President John Dunn, Kalamazoo
WMU failed its students on Saturday night
Tags: News Hits, Western Michigan University, WMU, emergency alert systems, Kalamazoo, Jason Dalton
Happy Oberon Day
By Alaina Nutile
Tags: Table and Bar, Oberon, Beer, Detroit, Bell's Brewery, Kalamazoo, Drinking
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think
By Randiah Camille Green
Kash Doll, Rema, and PartyNextDoor among Afro Nation Detroit headliners