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State paid health policy nonprofit $108 million before reviewing work plans, audit finds (opens the original)
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Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $21 million contract without getting legally required approval, according to a new state audit. That is one of several problems discovered by the Michigan Office of the Auditor General in an examination of the state health department’s relationship with a nonprofit that received nine high-level agreements and 857 project agreements totaling $435 million over a two-year period. The department gave the Michigan Public Health Institute $2
Michigan spends record amount on schools, gets worse reading scores (opens the original)
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Michigan is spending more money than ever on public schools, but test scores haven’t improved, according to new standardized test scores released earlier this month. About 61.8% of third graders weren’t proficient at reading, according to the 2025-26 M-STEP, the state’s set of standardized tests. That’s a slight increase from the previous school year, when 61.2% of third graders weren’t proficient. When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took office in 2019, she vowed to fix the literacy crisis in Michigan.
Federal court throws out Nessel antitrust suit against oil companies (opens the original)
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A federal judge has dismissed a climate-related lawsuit Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed against oil and gas companies. The lawsuit, initially announced in 2024, was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and alleged that several oil and gas companies contributed to climate change. Nessel retained three out-of-state law firms to pursue major petroleum firms. The lawsuit against BP PLC, Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell PLC, and the America
Feds give Ann Arbor Schools 14 days to fix alleged parental rights violations (opens the original)
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The federal government has given Ann Arbor Public Schools 14 days from Sept. 14 to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, or risk losing federal funding. “We urge Ann Arbor Public Schools to act promptly to ensure full compliance with federal law,” Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division for the U.S. Dept. of Justice, wrote in a letter to the district board and superintendent posted on socia
Michigan households pay $5,619 in tariffs (opens the original)
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Michigan households have paid about $5,619 of executive tariff costs, mostly on cars and trucks, since January 2025, according to a new report from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. The foundation estimated the per-household equivalent by using data from the international consulting firm Trade Partnership Worldwide and the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Michigan is among the top three states hit by tariffs since January 2025, according to the survey. The report showed sha
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