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Whitmer signs bills banning sale of ‘whip-its,’ expanding drug treatment options
Senate Bills 57 and 58 will ban the sale of items used to inhale nitrous oxide to get high
By Scott McClallen, The Center Square
Tags: Michigan, Government, News, Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan drug laws, Michigan legislature
Environmentalists oppose legislation to classify factory farm ‘biogas’ as clean energy
Factory farms already get billions annually in federal government subsidies
By Michael Betzold
Tags: Michigan, Environment, Government, Views & Opinions, Michigan factory farms, Michigan legislature, Lake Erie
The problem with Duggan’s Land Value Tax plan for Detroit
While the mayor touts its benefits as a development tool, others see it as a land grab
By Russ Bellant
Tags: Metro Detroit, Government, Views & Opinions, Land Value Tax, Mayor Mike Duggan, Detroit taxes, Michigan legislature, Cover Story
Michigan Legislature tackles ambitious climate legislation. How far will it go?
For Democrats, it could be a now-or-never moment to pass bills on issues like climate change without major compromises
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
Tags: Michigan News, Environment, Politics & Government, Michigan, climate change, green energy, Michigan Legislature
Michigan students plead with lawmakers to pass more gun control laws
‘I should not be here giving this speech,’ an MSU student said
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Michigan News, News, School, education, Michigan, gun control, Michigan Legislature, red flag law, guns
Democratic senators call on GOP leaders to censure Bizon for assaulting nurse
Bizon was sentenced to a year of probation for inappropriately touching a health care worker
Tags: Politics & Elections, Michigan Senate, michigan, John Bizon, Jim Ananich, assault, Republicans, politics, Michigan legislature
Michigan House votes to allocate $50 million for more police in schools following Oxford shooting
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: News Hits, Oxford, Police, Michigan legislature, school shootings, counselors not cops
Michigan GOP lawmaker disciplined after warning of ominous ‘historic event’ as Electoral College cast votes
Tags: Michigan legislature, Lansing, Electoral College
Mayor Duggan offers Kwame Kilpatrick 'a fresh start' if he's released early from prison
Tags: Karen Whitsett, Michigan Legislature, State House, coronavirus, Kwame Kilpatrick, prison, Mayor Duggan
Gov. Whitmer says she's 'not married' to fuel tax increase
Tags: News Hits, Lansing, roads, budget, Gov. Whitmer, fuel tax, sales tax, Republicans, Michigan Legislature
Opinion: Whitmer’s gas tax hits Michigan’s poorest residents, those with debt
By Tom Perkins
Tags: News Hits, Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan gas tax, Whitmer gas tax, Michigan earned income tax credit, Rick Snyder, michigan Legislature, Michigan business taxes
Outgoing Michigan GOP is attempting to strip power from incoming Dems
Tags: News Hits, Michigan republicans, Michigan GOP, Michigan lame duck, Michigan Democrats, lame dck, Michigan legislature, Dana NEssel, Jocelyn Benson, michigan campaign finance contributions
Under Michigan's college funding model, Wayne State students wind up paying more
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, Governor Rick Snyder, Snyder administration, Michigan Legislature, Republican, Wayne State University, performance-based funding, Carnegie Classifications, Detroit, college, university, tuition, Pell grants, low-income students
City Slang: Weekly music review roundup
By Brett Callwood
Tags: City Slang, McCoy Tyner, Nick Fairley, techno, house, Gabbamonkey, Junk Food Junkies, Rall Tide, Abortion, Right-to-Life, Pro-choice, Michigan Legislature
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
By Lee DeVito
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