We all would be forgiven if we overlooked a few important items when first perusing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed $74 billion state spending plan for the coming year. The record-setting budget proposal — which drew near immediate criticism for its girth — includes billions for ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday presented her Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal for the state, which includes funding that would allow Michigan National Guard service members to transfer current available tuition benefits to their spouses and children. The Michigan National Guard ...

The report out of Lansing late last week is heartbreaking: Michigan’s January fire deaths were up 144% over January 2021. What adds to the heartbreak is state fire officials said the deaths “were all accidental and preventable.” The report from Michigan’s Bureau of Fire Services ...

Another person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list every 10 minutes. You may know someone on that list. You may not. But the thousands of people who are waiting are grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, neighbors and coworkers. Day after day, they and ...

Hockey player Abby Roque. Snowboarder Nick Baumgartner. Watch for those names in the coming weeks as they are Yoopers competing in the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, China. Roque, 25, hails from Sault Ste. Marie and is a forward on the USA women’s hockey team. She speaks in her ...

Sometimes the old way is the best way. Tried and true. Time tested. Trusty. Not when it comes to transparency practices, and especially not in Michigan. At a moment when invention has kept pace with, if not advanced, necessity, it has become clear our state’s lawmakers haven’t evolved our ...