The estimates show population increases for East Lansing, Coldwater in southern Michigan, Sterling Heights in Macomb County, Grandville and Wyoming in Kent County, Lyon Township in Oakland County and Houghton in the Upper Peninsula. Detroit’s population bump moved it up in the rank of the country’s most
Monday, May 13 GOP pushes absentee voting The Michigan GOP is urging its members to add their names to the state’s permanent absentee voter list, arguing Republicans “cannot afford to underestimate the strategic importance” of voting by mail in 2024. The Monday appeal marked a notable tone
The legislation “will do nothing to improve our state’s housing crisis and will only make it harder for landlords to do business in our state,” Sen. Jonathan Lindsey, an Allen Republican, said before an October vote in the upper chamber. “This will discourage people from becoming landlords
Monday, May 13 GOP pushes absentee voting The Michigan GOP is urging its members to add their names to the state’s permanent absentee voter list, arguing Republicans “cannot afford to underestimate the strategic importance” of voting by mail in 2024. The Monday appeal marked a notable tone
China is undermining U.S. supply chains “by flooding the market with artificially cheap products that hurt American businesses and workers,” Raimondo added. Central to the ruling, however, are electric vehicles. While Chinese automakers are growing their global market share of EVs, U.S. manufacturers are investing billions to
Monday, May 13 GOP pushes absentee voting The Michigan GOP is urging its members to add their names to the state’s permanent absentee voter list, arguing Republicans “cannot afford to underestimate the strategic importance” of voting by mail in 2024. The Monday appeal marked a notable tone
In August 2015, 56% of the Flint homes tested for lead during the height of the water crisis had lead levels so low that water from taps met the Food and Drug Administration threshold for bottled water, according to tests taken by a team from Virginia Tech
The cause of a large number of dead and dying fish reported at Lake Macatawa, located near Holland in Ottawa County, Michigan, has been found. Testing of collected fish revealed positive cases of viral hemorrhagic septicemia. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. Read the full
The owner of an unlicensed mid-Michigan RV park is accused of violating environmental laws and jeopardizing water quality by discharging raw sewage into groundwater. Read the full story by WJBK-TV – Detroit, MI. Read the full story
The likely struggle of the Hudson’s Detroit project to meet projected Detroit jobs and revenue is the latest large-scale project fueling the debate over the structure of tax-incentivized development…. Read the full story
By Zach Lassen
This article was republished here with permission from Planet Detroit.
This story is from Planet Detroit’s Neighborhood Reporting Lab, where community reporters write about health and climate issues in their neighborhood. Neighborhood Reporting Lab is supported by the Americana and Kresge Foundations.
Lake whitefish is an important commercial fishery in Lake Erie and is culturally and economically important to local First Nations. Although Lake Erie’s population has declined in recent years due to poor survival during their first year of life, fishery biologists have shown that the Detroit River
