Isabella Helms

1 week ago | michigannewssource.com | Isabella Helms

LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — The U.S. is reopening its doors to international students—but only if they’re willing to open up their social media accounts, too. Under a new State Department policy rolled out June 18, all student and exchange visitor visa applicants in the F, M, and J categories must set their social media profiles to “public” as part of expanded national security screening.

1 week ago | michigannewssource.com | Isabella Helms

LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — A shuttered west Michigan coal plant is burning again—and state officials say the federal government had no business striking the match. Attorney General Dana Nessel and a coalition of environmental groups are challenging a U.S. Department of Energy order that forced Consumers Energy to restart its J.H. Campbell plant in Port Sheldon, with one environmental group calling it a misuse of emergency authority.

1 week ago | michigannewssource.com | Isabella Helms

LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — Two equity offices inside Michigan’s health department have been quietly renamed, trading the buzzwords of the DEI movement for broader, softer language—words like “culture,” “community,” and “leadership.” The Office of Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) is now the Office of Culture, Community, Education and Leadership, according to Bridge Michigan.

1 week ago | michigannewssource.com | Isabella Helms

LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — A long-running investigation into Michigan’s economic development grants intensified this week as Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office executed search warrants at the state’s top business agency and a private residence linked to a controversial $20 million grant.

1 week ago | michigannewssource.com | Isabella Helms

LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — Michigan’s pause on spring and summer coyote hunting will stand, after a state judge ruled that regulators acted within the law—and on sound science—when they moved to protect coyotes during pup-rearing season. In a June 3 opinion, Judge Morgan E. Cole of Ingham County Circuit Court upheld the 2024 decision by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) to ban coyote hunting from mid-April to mid-July.