Victor Skinner

3 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Victor Skinner

The Great Lakes Fisheries Commission’s sea lamprey control program is back on track after federal job cuts had eliminated a dozen contracted workers at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “On the staffing, it does look like we’re getting things back on track,” Greg McClinchey, GLFC’s director of political and legislative affairs, told Michigan Outdoor News.

3 weeks ago | outdoornews.com | Victor Skinner

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission on April 10 voted to table a proposal to reverse last year’s decision to close the coyote hunting season between April 15 and July 15. The NRC decision in March 2024 reverted the coyote season structure to how it was before the state moved to year-round hunting eight years ago, prompting lawsuits from Michigan United Conservation Clubs and the Michigan Trappers and Predator Callers Association that were consolidated in Ingham County Circuit Court.

4 weeks ago | themidwesterner.news | Victor Skinner

A Michigan dentist is suing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs over implicit bias training imposed through an executive directive.

4 weeks ago | readlion.com | Shanxi Omoniyi |Victor Skinner |John Ransom |Jillian Schneider

A public school district in Massachusetts is grappling with soaring transportation expenses for its 11,000 students, a recent news report concluded. “I am horrified at the burgeoning cost of transportation,” said Thomas Khoury, committee member for Fall River Public Schools, at an April 8 meeting. The Herald News, which is part of the Gannett USA TODAY network, traced the exponential hike in busing expenses from $8 million in 2021 to its present-day projections of more than $15.8 million.

4 weeks ago | themidwesterner.news | Victor Skinner

A political action committee behind former Congressman Mike Rogers’ U.S. Senate campaign is stepping on the gas with a new statewide ad campaign that launched Tuesday, a source exclusively tells The Midwesterner.