Michigan

by Kyle Davidson, Michigan Advance State officials on Thursday announced that Michigan would join the nation in using a new number, 988, to connect residents experiencing behavioral health crises with resources. In 2020,…

by Anna Gustafson About one in five Michiganders infected with coronavirus develop “Long COVID,” and the often debilitating chronic illness that leaves people struggling with fatigue, cardiac issues and breathing problems. And it is…

by Nancy Wayne, Ph.D. As a recently retired reproductive physiology professor and biomedical researcher of more than 25 years, educating the next generation of scientists, physicians and leaders has been my primary focus in higher…

by James David Dickson Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has raised the stakes in the debate on drag shows for children. In June, when GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon promised to enact "severe criminal penalties…

by Allison R. Donohue, Michigan Advance During the first session since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, House Democrats attempted Thursday night to bring bills to the floor for a roll call vote that would…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that the Healthy Michigan Plan is now providing health care coverage to 1,000,456 million Michiganders, marking the first time more than one million people have opted for affordable and accessible…

by Monique Stanton As an organization that has been working to improve public policy for more than a century, we certainly have to adapt with the times. From the Great Depression to the Great Recession, the influenza pandemic…

by Donnelly Wright Hadden Our State government is in a frenzy to spend money and cut taxes, because it has a temporary budget windfall. Michigan officials had better save some of that money to bail out local governments next year,…

by Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance I never fully transitioned back into a post-COVID world after getting vaxxed and even boosted, because I understood that reality didn’t exist for millions of immunocompromised people, seniors and…

by P.D. Lesko Ann Arbor SPARK receives the bulk of its funding from governmental sources, including state and federal grants, as well as the Ann Arbor LDFA, a tax-increment financing authority that diverts money from public schools and…