Paul Egan
Reporter/ Lansing Bureau Chief at Detroit Free Press
Covering #MI government for Detroit Free Press. Watchdog coverage of how state taxes, spends, & treats citizens. Contracts. Conflicts. Not a good ole boy.
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan |Clara Jane Hendrickson
The Attorney General's Office confirmed the raid at the MEDC and a residence in Farmington. Details about the nature of the investigation were not immediately released. LANSING — The Michigan Attorney General's Office executed a search warrant June 18 at the Lansing offices of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., and a home in Farmington Hills, officials confirmed.
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
More than 57% of all Michigan governors have been lawyers, including the current governor and the four governors before her. Twenty of Michigan's 47 governors, or nearly 43%, were state senators before they were governor. LANSING — Lawyers and lumber barons. Farmers and financiers. Educators. A cheese maker. A civil engineer.
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2 weeks ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
The GOP plan sets a school foundation allowance of $10,025 per pupil, up from $9,608 this year. That's higher than the $10,000 per-pupil grant proposed by Gov. Whitmer. The GOP school budget eliminates Gov. Whitmer's signature policy of providing free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. LANSING — House Republicans would outspend Democrats under a $21.9-billion budget for K-12 schools they passed June 11.
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2 weeks ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
The Michigan Department of Corrections has fired all four officers. The Michigan Corrections Organization union has filed grievances over the dismissals and says the men should get their jobs back. LANSING — A judge has dismissed all remaining charges against four former Michigan corrections officers charged in the 2024 beating of an inmate at Ionia's Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, at the request of the county prosecutor.
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2 weeks ago |
freep.com | Paul Egan
Seth Zakora, 21, died from a fentanyl overdose at Lakeland prison in Coldwater on Jan. 22, 2017There were two other drug overdoses in Zakora's unit in the days before his death, caused by fentanyl. LANSING — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died from a drug overdose, which alleged state prison officials ignored rampant drug smuggling at Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater.
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someone with NFL acumen: why did I see the Indianapolis Colts' private jet at the Detroit airport today
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I am suspending my X moratorium to declare Maverick the WINNER of National Cat Day. So many challenges and never complains, much like his housemate, my editor, at election time.
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