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A nonpartisan, nonprofit Michigan news site focused on facts. Our free newsletter is more consistent and complete than tweets. Subscribe: https://t.co/vbVBhoNq82
Joined August 2011
Upset over LGBTQ books, a Michigan town defunds its library in tax vote
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‘I am certainly not dead!’ Living voters contradict Michigan GOP fraud claims
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Michigan lawmakers OK early voting, conversion therapy ban, Juneteenth holiday
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Democrats retake Michigan House with special election wins
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Jonathan Oosting is Michigan Journalist of Year; Bridge wins top digital site
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Michigan teachers say they’re ignored in Lansing. Now, they’re in charge.
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Three ex-governors agree: Michigan should certify election for Joe Biden
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Michigan State professor details terror of mass shooting in Room 114
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Michigan set to become 22nd state to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ youths
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GOP leaders: We’ll abide by popular vote, won’t give Michigan to Trump
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Thanks @Fahrenthold. We've been hustlin' for Michigan. Please support local nonpartisan, nonprofit news organizations like Bridge. DONATE:
The folk at @BridgeMichigan have done a heckuva job over the last few days.
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Despite big election victories, @MichiganDems remains a distinct minority in the state Legislature – despite picking up over half the votes cast - thanks to #gerrymandering. “Democrats won every statewide election, (but) still could not even get a tie."
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‘I have been indicted,’ says suspect in Michigan vote machine tampering probe
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Trump fatigue looms large in west Michigan, once a conservative stronghold
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University of Michigan being probed on claim it falsified student grades
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Birmingham student didn’t do classwork, was sent to juvenile detention
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The progressive attorney general @dananessel clearly disagrees with her conservative predecessor @SchuetteOnDuty.
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The Rudy Giuliani ‘circus’ has left Lansing. The reviews are bad.
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Matt Maddock, a Trump favorite, ousted from Michigan GOP caucus
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Bridge Michigan honored as national ‘unsung hero’ for unbiased news coverage
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Two heirs bought Midland dams as a tax shelter. Tragedy followed.
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Voters chose Gretchen Whitmer to lead Michigan another four years, re-electing the Democratic governor who guided the state through the COVID-19 pandemic and vowed to fight "like hell" for abortion rights. More:
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Opinion | Michigan ‘red flag’ laws infringe on due process and don’t work
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Gov. Whitmer signs law allowing Michigan to pass stricter environmental rules
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Michigan state parks system leads the nation in accessible recreation
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West Michigan library defunded over LGBTQ books wins tax support on 3rd try
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Each year, Michigan’s notoriously bad roads cost drivers an estimated $4.3B. State law promises reimbursement, but denies almost all claims. We investigated the system and found it is skewed against drivers: (thread).
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Michigan blue wave foils GOP plans to enact voter ID, school choice this year
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Kristina Karamo wants to invalidate mail-in ballots – but only in Detroit
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Romance author Nora Roberts helps save MI library defunded over LGBTQ books
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Michigan Proposal 3 fact check: No, masseuses won’t give abortions to minors
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Donald Trump claims he ‘won’ Michigan in 2020 — and will again
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Michigan personal income plummets to lowest in history compared to nation
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ICYMI: The Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Thursday unanimously voted to place a ballot proposal to expand voting access on the November ballot. It could allow same-day voter registration and no-reason absentee voting.
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Fact Squad: Audit wouldn’t change outcome of Biden win in Michigan
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Michigan Attorney General now involved in Lee Chatfield sex assault probe
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ICYMI: The group that spearheaded Michigan's new paid sick leave law, which was adopted before it went to voters, says it will launch another ballot initiative in 2020 if the bill passes in its current watered-down form. #mileg via @LindsayVanHulle.
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Michigan Senate votes to repeal 24-hour wait for abortion, other restrictions
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GOP investigation finds no Michigan vote fraud, deems many claims ‘ludicrous’
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Dems allege forgery, fraud on GOP petitions for Michigan U.S. Senate seat
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Dana Nessel: There’s ‘clear evidence' to charge fake electors loyal to Trump
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Michigan may spend big on passenger trains, eying service to Canada, Up North
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Panel to keep young people in Michigan includes one person under 40 so far
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Michigan mom sues for disability in latest U.S. legal battle over long COVID
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Opinion: Sixteen states have banned conversion therapy, the controversial practice of trying to turn LGBTQ youth to embrace heterosexuality. It’s time for Michigan to join them, says state Senator @MalloryMcMorrow.
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DTE Energy ghostwriting comments to push $456 million rate hike
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Opinion | Michigan parents have right to know what their children are taught in school
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Bridge’s Lauren Gibbons honored for investigation into juvenile court fees
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Michigan voter rolls inflated by 500K. State says it’s no issue. GOP disagrees
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Bridge Michigan expands again, hires two editors, Capitol reporter
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How to vote early in the November election in Michigan
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Oxford High students push gun reforms in Michigan: ‘Things need to change’
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They were at the Capitol riot. Now, these Michigan Republicans want your vote
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Michigan AG, police to probe false election fraud claims after GOP report
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Michigan 2020 Election Tracker: @dananessel may pursue sanctions against @realDonaldTrump campaign attorneys and allies including Sidney Powell for “intentional misrepresentations” in lawsuits seeking to overturn Michigan election results. v.
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Michigan makes history, requires filtered water in all schools, daycares
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Climate change is erasing Michigan winters, taking our heritage with them
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After Michigan students clog campus polling places, election officials look for a better way
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Schools outraged that bars can open in Michigan, but not winter sports
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Michigan flatlining on jobs: No job growth expected through 2030
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Huge wins for Democrats. They're poised to retake Michigan Legislature
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Fact Squad: No, Michigan Gov. Whitmer did not ‘defund the police’
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Corporate subsidies cost Michigan $335M; 40% of deals create low-paying jobs
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Thanks @nytimes for picking up our story! If you missed the original story on emails from Republicans discussing #Gerrymandering in 2011, here's our link:
Newly disclosed emails show Michigan Republicans angling to give their party a dominant position through gerrymandered maps
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We read all Michigan election reform bills. Many would add hurdles to voting.
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Ottawa County hires law firm that sought to void 2020 election
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Indiana is beating Michigan by attracting people, not just companies
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Michigan continues to bleed residents, losses to other states double in 2023
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Michigan admits underreporting 200K+ COVID-19 cases, many during worst wave
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Amid outcry, solar farm owner says it no longer wants Michigan forest to expand
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Michigan Republicans to push constitutional amendment requiring ID to vote
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Meet the judge keeping abortion legal in Michigan (for now)
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Michigan's Proposal 2 from @NotPoliticians, a ballot measure to end #gerrymandering was supported by voters across the state, not just from Democratic strongholds. See our interactive map to see how your county voted. via @mwilk_Bridge
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Whitmer signs ‘red flag’ law, allowing Michigan judges to confiscate guns
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Fed up with geese, Michigan abandons relocation efforts. Next up: killing them
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New Michigan laws ban domestic abusers from owning guns for eight years
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#EXCLUSIVE: @GovWhitmer is expected to sign an executive order shutting down schools for the rest of the school year. DETAILS on testing plans and school funding here:
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Big money donors shunning Tudor Dixon, Michigan Republican ticket
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Opinion | Stop expanding the damn roads and rethink MI’s transportation future
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Whitmer signs anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ residents in Michigan into law
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@dananessel @SchuetteOnDuty In her first month, @dananessel has reversed or withdrawn from more than a dozen cases involving abortion, religious rights, #Obamacare environmental rules and other hot-button issues.
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Michigan now has the highest COVID-19 rate in the nation, as the state reported 21,034 new cases on Monday, or an average of 7,011 for each of the past three days. More:
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A Michigan doctor goes to Facebook over dying, unvaccinated COVID patients
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Sister-in-law: Ex-MI House Speaker Lee Chatfield sexually assaulted me as teen
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Opinion | Let’s not flunk third-graders for low reading scores in a pandemic
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ICYMI: Three weeks into office, new #Michigan attorney general @dananessel, a Democrat, has begun to roll back environmental litigation initiated by her Republican predecessor, @SchuetteOnDuty
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Two major medical groups — Michigan Association of Family Physicians and the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics – Thursday urged universal masking in schools.
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Opinion | Republicans are spreading disinformation about vaccine, face masks
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Feral goldfish are menacing Great Lakes: We’re going to need a bigger bowl
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Michigan has spent $1B on EV, battery plants. So far, they’ve created 200 jobs
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Bridge won its 4th-consecutive Newspaper of the Year award from @MichiganPress Assoc. We won 30 prizes in all, including 5 1st-place awards in open-class competition against every paper in the state. Among them: MPA's prestigious Public Service Award.
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Michigan strips UP clerk of election duty over planned hand count
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Mass transit wins big in new plan to retool Michigan corporate subsidies
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#Michigan #gerrymandering trial on for February; court cites ‘profound’ bias. A 3-judge panel decided there is enough evidence that Republicans orchestrated a “durable partisan gerrymander” over several election cycles. via @joeltkurth.
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In 2017, a widely admired elementary school principal, shot his 26 y/o son with cerebral palsy and himself near Grand Rapids. Michigan’s education system for the developmentally disabled ends at age 26, leaving parents at a loss for support and structure.
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First Person | Detroit poll workers are heroes of this election
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GOP gerrymanderer: My maps fueled toxic politics that produced Trump
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Michigan per-capita income lags again; ‘it’s the lowest we’ve ever been’
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Records: Michigan voting machines exchanged at mall, ‘manipulated’ in hotels
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Michigan House speaker blasts lawmaker’s ‘blatantly racist’ social media post
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