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With the rising cost to buy a home or rent an apartment, plus higher insurance costs and other living expenses, residents under 35 are moving away.

Readers weigh in on Gov. Ron DeSantis actions regarding transgender youth, the Ohio wreck, Gov. Sarah Sanders comments, racial disparities and more.

Letters include saving money by harnessing the sun’s power; and how the media is inclined to print and telecast the most inflammatory reporting.

Nolan Out Loud: Caught red-handed, Whitmer relents View Comments Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rescinded her 6-person limit on restaurant and bar groups after she was caught partying with about a dozen of her friends in a East Lansing bar. She had little choice. How could the state enforce a rule the governor isnt following herself? Read Ingrid Jacques column today making the case the governor should just give it up altogether and end all the remaining COVID-19 restrictions, as many other states have...

Nolan Out Loud: Whitmer least transparent governor View Comments Ive been covering Michigan governors since Bill Milliken, and Ive never seen one more secretive than Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The governor guards public information as if it were her own personal treasure. The latest example is her use of a private jet owned by Metro Detroit businessmen for a trip this spring to visit her father in Florida, who the governor says is ailing. She wont say how she paid for the trip, or answer other ques...

Michigan Health Director Elizabeth Hertel gave some hint to the reasons for the dispute that ended with her predecessor, Robert Gordon, leaving his post and signing an unusual confidentiality agreement in exchange for $150,000. Asked in a Senate hearing whether his departure could have stemmed from a policy disagreement with Whitmer over how to fight COVID-19, Hertel answered, "Yes, its possible." That makes sense. Gordon was charged with issuing the pandemic emergency orders after the state S...