Michigan News

Eubanks claims abortion and gay marriage are ‘outside the Christian moral order’

By Jon King, Michigan Advance

May 23, 2022

A former President Donald Trump-endorsed GOP candidate for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives says if elected, she will work to ban all forms of birth control. In an interview with the far-right website Church Militant, Jacky Eubanks said that if it ever came to a vote in the Michigan Legislature, “I would have to side with it should not be legal,” adding that birth control “gives people the false sense of security that they can have consequence-free sex, and that’s not true and that’s not correct...

Under fire from Congress, FDA chief says baby formula shortage will improve soon

By Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court will take up Whitmer’s abortion suit, but has questions

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
May 23, 2022
Report: DePerno met with Trump State Dept. official on Jan. 6, 2021

By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
May 19, 2022
Report says hundreds of state legislators have joined far-right Facebook groups

That includes 27 Michigan lawmakers, per the study

By Kira Lerner, Michigan Advance
May 19, 2022
Michigan judge grants injunction against 1931 abortion ban if Roe is overturned

By Allison Donahue, Michigan Advance
May 17, 2022
White supremacists are convicted of training for a civil war in Michigan

The Base is a pro-Hitler movement that advocates a race war against non-white people

By Steve Neavling
May 17, 2022
Michigan water advocate: Pipeline expansion puts tribal fishing rights at risk

'Our community is a tribal fishing community,' says director of the Water is Life festival and a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
May 17, 2022
Grand Rapids Starbucks is first to unionize in Michigan as labor movement gains steam

An additional 11 Starbucks stores in Michigan plan to vote on unionizing in the coming months

By Steve Neavling
May 16, 2022
Bird flu infects 3 baby red foxes in Southeast Michigan

The infections are the first confirmation that the virus has spread to wild animals in the state

By Steve Neavling
May 16, 2022
GOP resolution seeks to abolish Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission

By Jon King, Michigan Advance
May 13, 2022
CDC recommends wearing a mask in metro Detroit as COVID-19 rates climb

16 Michigan counties are now considered ‘high risk’

By Randiah Camille Green
May 13, 2022
Michigan utility seeks landowners, communities to site solar arrays

Consumers Energy is seeking partnerships with landowners and communities for siting utility-scale solar arrays

By Lily Bohlke, Michigan News Connection
May 12, 2022
Michigan has responsibility to provide oversight of animal experiments, AG Nessel says

Inhumane animals labs could now be held accountable

By Steve Neavling
May 11, 2022
Inside Michigan’s battle to protect the right to abortion

From the governor’s office to the streets, it’s all hands on deck

By Steve Neavling, Lee DeVito and Randiah Camille Green
May 11, 2022
Fauci tells 2020 U of M grads to challenge ‘untruths’ while anti-vaxxers protest outside

Seemingly acknowledging COVID-19 conspiracies during his speech, Fauci urged graduates to not turn a blind eye to ‘egregious distortions of reality’

By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
May 9, 2022
Michigan AG joins coalition urging Biden to cancel federal student debt

The total federal student loan debt has reached more than $1.7 trillion as inflation continues to climb

By Steve Neavling
May 5, 2022
Wayne County Prosecutor Worthy pledges not to enforce the state’s abortion ban

‘I feel like I am living in the twilight zone,’ Worthy said

By Steve Neavling
May 4, 2022
Michigan campaign to protect right to abortion at the ballot sees explosion in volunteers

There’s a huge jump in interest in Reproductive Freedom for All after leak of SCOTUS draft to overturn ‘Roe v. Wade’

By Randiah Camille Green
May 4, 2022
Detroit- and L.A.-based relationship app Baklava connects Arabs in living diaspora

The company is led by two Arab women who met in school

By Rasha Almulaiki
May 4, 2022
AG Nessel won’t prosecute women or doctors who violate Michigan’s abortion ban

Michigan attorney general believes women will die under the state’s 1931 law, which would go back into effect if ‘Roe’ is overturned

By Steve Neavling
May 3, 2022