LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is scaling back her plan to “fix the damn roads,” unveiling a $3.5 billion bond proposal that would help rebuild Michigan highways without a tax increase but saddle the state with decades of new debt. The first-term Democrat announced her latest plan Wednesday night in her second State of the
LANSING – At long last, Michigan’s divided government has the framework for a budget deal. But it’s mostly flat and doesn’t include major funding to big problems voters elected lawmakers to solve. An agreement to end a months-long standoff on Tuesday includes no new money for roads and bridges that are some of the nation’s
ANN ARBOR - Enbridge is disputing Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s suggestion that state taxpayers “could be left holding the bag” for cleanup costs if the Candadian-based company’s twin Line 5 oil and gas pipelines were to rupture in the Straits of Mackinac. “The bottom line is Enbridge will take full responsibility and pay for
DETROIT - The nation’s education report card finally contains a sliver of good news for Detroit.Fourth-graders in the city district scored significantly higher this year on the math section of a rigorous national progress exam than they did in 2017, the last time the test was administered. But the city’s schools still have a long
ANN ARBOR - I’ve been traveling around the state recently, speaking to various community groups and service clubs. As usual, when I get in a room with Michiganders, I learn a ton by asking questions: How many are satisfied with the present state of politics in Michigan? How about in the country? (Zero hands go
FERNDALE - Chastity Pratt Dawsey from Bridge Magazine appeared Feb. 15 on M2 TechCast (co-hosted by MITechNews.Com Mike Brennan and LTU's Matt Roush) to discuss a story about the Flint water crisis that appeared in Bridge on Feb. 16. The story is about the people of Flint and their mistrust for their government. The mistrust has grown
FERNDALE - Chastity Pratt Dawsey from Bridge Magazine appears on M2 TechCast Monday Feb. 15 to discuss a story about the Flint water crisis that will appear in Bridge on Tuesday. Bridge's story this week is about the people and their mistrust for their government. It explores how residents' mistrust for government has so badly
FERNDALE – John Bebow editor in chief of Bridge magazine talks about the investigative publication that tells the “why” behind today’s Michigan headlines. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2techcast-episode-9-john-bebow?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit
FERNDALE – What a show we had for Episode 9 of M2 TechCast. Engineering Society of Detroit Executive Director Robert McGee, Bridge magazine Editor-in-Chief John Bebow, Accelerate Michigan Executive Director Lauren Bigelow, and PeopleMovers.Com Founder Keith Zendler all discuss what’s happening with their various projects. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2techcast-episode-9?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit
FERNDALE – On the November 9 edition of M2 TechCast, John Bebow discusses The Center For Michigan and Bridge magazine; Keith Zendler talks about his new and improved PeopleMovers.Com website, which now has become a Global Community Bulletin Board connecting Detroit to Pune, India; Paula Sorrell names the winners of the $1 Million Accelerate Michigan
