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3 days ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
ANN ARBOR, Mich.
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3 days ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – At 11:50 a.m., Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan broke the news that two Chinese nationals had been charged with smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen into the U.S. where they could work on it at a University of Michigan laboratory. While politicians and pundits from around the country and in Michigan spoke out, Michigan Gov.
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4 days ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
Lansing City Hall in Lansing, Michigan. LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The city of Lansing will continue its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) meetings in an environment of uncertainly in regards to the Trump administration’s stance to abolish DEI initiatives.
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4 days ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a notice of intervention to contest proposed annual electric rate hike of $436 million by Consumers Energy. If the rate hike is approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission, it would take effect in May 2026. Nessel said in a June 2 press release the rate hike was likely the largest in decades.
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5 days ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
PONTIAC, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Pontiac resident Betty Lewis-Rand made news last week when she started filling in the potholes on her street because the road was in such disrepair and the city hadn’t responded. The city responded it didn’t have enough money.
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5 days ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – The amount of money the city of Detroit pays out in litigation for auto incidents dropped 66% in 2024. The city of Detroit paid out $5.3 million in auto-related payouts in 2024, a drop from the $15.7 million the previous year.
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1 week ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
DETROIT, Mich. – (Michigan News Source) – Michael Van Beek has analyzed education plans since 2009 for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He’s skeptical of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s plans to revitalize the state’s education system. Duggan, who is running for governor as an Independent, has proposed adding $4.5 billion over five years to K-12 funding and firing principals and superintendents if their failing schools don’t turn it around.
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1 week ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (Michigan News Source) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is outing those communities that are sanctuary havens and not cooperating with the federal government in terms of immigration policy. DHS stated in a recent press release: “Sanctuary jurisdictions including cities, counties, and states that are deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws endangering American communities.
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1 week ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The city of Ann Arbor is considering passing a “Green Rental Housing” ordinance that will rate all landlords on a point system as to whether they provide bike parking, free bus passes and impose other regulations the city determines are environmentally beneficial. If the landlord doesn’t pass these new green standards, they will not be eligible to be a rental.
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1 week ago | 
michigannewssource.com | Tom Gantert
FLINT, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – In 2023, the city of Flint received $170 million from the state of Michigan to help support its underfunded pension system. Now, in 2025, the state of Michigan is again bailing out the city, this time with a $27 million grant because “the city has struggled to make an actuarial determined contribution given the funding level of the pension system,” according to the state Treasury Department.
