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Candidates discuss issues of funding, diversity, priorities and more for the Bloomfield Hills Schools Board of Education. Read what 10 hopefuls want.

As election-deniers wage an unprecedented assault on democratic institutions, Free Press reporters work overtime to sift fact from fiction.

Tudor Dixon and fellow Republicans give their reaction to the state superintendent advising that teachers do not disclose the gender identity to their students’ parents, and old writing from congressional candidate, John Gibbs which says he thought women should not be able to vote.

In 1966, Renee Chelian had an illegal abortion that almost killed her. That experience, when she was just 15 years old, inspired a lifetime of work as an abortion clinic owner in Metro Detroit.

Nancy Kaffer is a columnist and member of the Detroit Free Press Editorial Board. She writes about politics, policy and the complicated relationship between the two. Kaffer covers state, local and national politics. She joined the Free Press in 2012, and previously worked at Crain's Detroit Business, the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, Metro Times and the Dearborn Press & Guide.

Renee Chelian has provided abortions – and gotten one illegally. She says the fall of Roe v. Wade should scare women, but the fight is not over.

Free Press staffers on Monday morning visited many area stores to survey the infant formula scene. Plenty of places were out of stock.

The Detroit Free Press takes home dozens of awards in annual journalist contest put on by the Society of Professional Journalists Detroit chapter.

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Inequality, misinformation and holding the powerful accountable are common themes in the journalism produced by the finalists for the 69th Scripps Howard Awards.