Your support can help us meet our year-end campaign goal!
We’re in the homestretch of our year-end fundraising campaign, and we’re so close to our goal. Your support of any amount means so much to us, and helps us inform Michigan’s residents and communities. Will you support the nonprofit, nonpartisan news that makes Michigan a better place? Make your tax-deductible contribution today!
Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency Director Julia Dale told staffers she’s leaving to accept a job with a nonprofit. Appointed in 2021, Dale is the agency’s third director since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attorney General Dana Nessel and legislative Democrats want to cap prices on necessary goods and services during state of emergency declarations. Republicans and business groups have concerns.
Staring at screens when they most needed the refining fire of in-person interactions, these now late teens to early-20-somethings missed crucial steppingstones to adulthood.
Michigan underreported total cases counts by 6%, the bulk of which came during the deadly omicron wave of 2021 and 2022. The state fixed the problem in October and blames a computer error.
The state is spending $17 million to expand 22 sites into wellness centers to provide preventive care in an effort to curb racial disparities in health outcomes.
Michigan students are already suffering from pandemic learning losses. High rates of absenteeism make it worse. Rates improved slightly from last year but are still well above 2019.
A federal program that provides COVID shots for under- and uninsured Americans and others is ending, just as updated COVID vaccines are being released.
Michigan is one of just four states with ‘moderate’ levels of COVID-19 detected in wastewater, while many states are seeing ‘high’ or ‘very high’ levels of infection. Case counts in the state are still rising, but more slowly.
Experts have warned that the pandemic’s effect on learning would last for a long time. Now, Michigan scores show third graders are scoring worse on reading than third graders prior to the pandemic.
Weekly COVID updates end after four years and 600 posts. A new tracker will provide updates on what are expected to be some of nation’s most competitive campaigns.