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michiganadvance.com | Kyle Davidson |Michigan Advance
Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) and the Michigan Senate have laid out their arguments to the Michigan Court of Claims calling on Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Twp.) to present nine bills passed during the end of the previous legislative session to the Governor. For reasons still unclear, outgoing Democratic leadership in the House failed to submit nine bills to Democratic Gov.
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Jon King |Michigan Advance
Bird flu is now widespread in wild bird populations throughout Michigan, according to state testing. That’s the conclusion of sampling of dead wild birds across Lower Michigan suspected to be positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. The testing was done as part of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ ongoing disease surveillance.
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Kyle Davidson |Michigan Advance
The LGBTQ+ advocacy group Equality Michigan alongside 40 other organizations published an open letter Tuesday calling on the executive leadership and board of directors at Corewell Health to reverse their decision to limit gender affirming care following an executive order aimed at ending such care for minors.
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Kyle Davidson |Michigan Advance
With 10 days remaining until new earned sick time requirements are set to take effect, the Michigan Senate Regulatory Affairs Committee met Tuesday taking further testimony on a proposal to trim back these new provisions out of concern for Michigan businesses. Despite the Feb.
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2 months ago | 
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Jon King |Michigan Advance
A coalition of Michigan educators, elected officials, social justice organizations, and student advocates are laying out the ramifications of President Donald Trump’s planned executive order seeking to shut down the U.S. Department of Education. A virtual press conference Monday, hosted by education advocacy groups, the Michigan Education Justice Coalition and 482Forward, featured state Rep.
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Andrew Roth |Michigan Advance
by Andrew Roth, Michigan Advance February 11, 2025 Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) said she’s received death threats after revealing during a rally last week that she underwent voluntary sterilization because she was concerned about the future of reproductive health care during President Donald Trump’s second term in office. Pohutsky’s comments during a “50501 Movement” rally in Lansing last week quickly spread across the internet, including among right wing media circles.
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Kyle Davidson |Michigan Advance
by Kyle Davidson, Michigan Advance February 10, 2025 After a federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to comply with a previous order requiring the government to resume federal grant and loan payments, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says the legal fight will continue. As part of a coalition of Democratic Attorneys General, Nessel filed suit in one of two cases seeking to block the Trump administration’s attempt at freezing federal grant and loan payments.
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Jon King |Michigan Advance
Nearly two dozen attorneys general, including Michigan’s Dana Nessel, filed suit Monday in federal court seeking to halt the Trump Administration’s cuts to public health research at universities and research institutions across the country, an action they contend is “unlawful” and will result in the institutions’ “cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease…grind[ing] to a halt.” The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, also names the Department of Health and...
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2 months ago | 
michiganadvance.com | Elisha Brown |Michigan Advance
by Elisha Brown, Michigan Advance February 10, 2025 Grade school students in several Republican-led states may soon be required to watch a fetal development video produced by a prominent anti-abortion group as part of their curricula. Live Action uploaded the “Baby Olivia” video featuring a British narrator and “Bridgerton”-esque background music in August 2021. It has since racked up more than 9 million views.
