Bridge Michigan

1 day ago | bridgemi.com | Ron French

Patmos Library is closed temporarily after the majority of its staff resigned last weekThe library has been the focal point of a long-running battle over LGBTQ-themed booksThe Ottawa County library is one of several around the state embroiled in culture war fightsJAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP — A few feet away from the children’s section of the Patmos Public Library, adults argued Monday over who are the better Christians.

2 days ago | bridgemi.com | Emilio Perez Ibarguen

Last year, state officials swapped a longstanding goose relocation program with a new policy allowing landowners to kill nuisance geese in some casesAnimal rights activists mobilized against the policy, and state officials later reversed courseDNR officials say they’re pausing the euthanasia program and looking for other ways to manage Michigan’s geeseState officials have indefinitely paused a controversial program that allowed landowners to combat nuisance geese by hiring crews to kill them.

3 days ago | bridgemi.com | Brett Walton

Livelihoods and economies in the Great Lakes region always centered on water. From the manoomin, or wild rice, grown and revered by the Ojibwe people to the whitefish catch in Lake Michigan, to the water-dependent ports, steel mills, and manufacturers that dot thousands of miles of Fresh Coast lakeshore.

5 days ago | bridgemi.com | Simon D. Schuster

President Donald Trump told the federal government to move forward on a project to prevent invasive carp from entering the Great LakesThe project, backed by Michigan but based in Illinois, has been stalled after that state’s governor demanded federal funding guaranteesMichigan Gov.

5 days ago | bridgemi.com | Robin Erb

Senior centers may be more important than ever as Michigan confronts an aging crisis Many centers are forced to cobble together funding to survive because of the state’s hodgepodge of local millages That builds wide inequities in the system — from country club-like centers that stand on their own to those fitted into old buildings or tucked into parks and rec departmentsROCHESTER — Entering the sprawling OPC Social & Activity Center is an exercise in choice: Pickleball or pottery?