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Republicans are using budget stalemate to hold up child care money and try to kill mask mandates, any plans for a vaccine passport and efforts to stop Line 5. They won’t likely have much luck.
Michigan economy, COVID-19 response ‘completely intertwined,’ says Whitmer ahead of State of the State address Updated Jan 27, 2021; Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to spend a significant portion of her State of the State address Wednesday night speaking about her plans to help Michigan’s economic recovery, but she can’t do that without also addressing the state’s efforts to contain COVID-19. “I mean, they are completely intertwined,” Whitmer said in a Tuesday interview with MLive. “... You can’t fix the economic crisis without fixing the health crisis and so the plan to recove...
Michigan’s roads, bridges, dams, harbors, water and stormwater systems are all in need of long-term repairs. That costs lots of money. What would cost more? Not making plans to start paying that money now. (Bridge/Crain’s photo by Michael Lee II) LANSING — In the summer of 2003, a massive power outage brought a swath of the eastern United States and Canada ‒ including much of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula ‒ to a standstill. The blackout, which started when a single electrical wire touched a tree in Ohio, left roughly 50 million people in the dark for days, and exposed the vulnerabi...