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Michigan Dems urge ICE to release Detroit high school students
State and federal legislators from the Detroit area sent a letter on Tuesday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials asking for the release of four students who attend Western International High School, a part of Detroit Public Schools, who, along with their parents have been detained by ICE.
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Nessel joins Ann Arbor area lawmakers, environmentalists demanding scrutiny of DTE data center deal
One of the state’s largest energy companies is asking energy regulators to fast track approval of two contracts to provide power to a data center planned for construction in Saline Township, but environmental advocates and state officials have banded together to demand greater transparency into the details.
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Michigan Senate passes petition collection, election disinformation reforms
The fight against election disinformation and changes to Michigan’s petition circulation process cleared the upper chamber of the state Legislature on Thursday.
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Anti-abortion group will spend $80 million on midterm election in Michigan and other key races
Anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and its partner political action committee, Women Speak Out PAC, announced on Wednesday an $80 million investment into the midterm election cycle to maintain Republican majorities in the US House and Senate.
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Whitmer: Multi-billion-dollar Saline Township data center ‘largest investment in Michigan history’
Whitmer lauded the multi-billion dollar project, calling it the largest in Michigan history, with the facility expected to create 2,500 union construction jobs, alongside 450 permanent jobs on site and 1,500 more in the community.
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‘That ain’t right’: Detroit senior living building union demands owner come to the bargaining table
A group of tenants in the River Pointe Tower building in Detroit, a senior living apartment complex, are calling for the head of Capital Realty Group, Moshe Eichler, who owns the building, to come to the bargaining table.
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Right to Life of Michigan files court appeal to challenge Proposal 3 claiming ‘dangerous overreach’
Right to Life of Michigan, alongside several parents, have filed an appeal in the US Court of Appeals.
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Michigan father with leukemia released from federal custody following judge’s order
Eight noncitizen Michigan residents must be released or at least granted bond hearings within seven days, ruled Brandy R. McMillion, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan, in a case brought by the ACLU of Michigan.
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Michigan Democrats call for GOP response to leaked, slur-filled Young Republicans’ chat
In the wake of a report from POLITICO detailing a chat among leaders of Young Republicans’ chapters across the country, which included hundreds of uses of racial slurs and support for the use of gas chambers, slavery and rape, Michigan Democrats have called on the state’s Republican Party leadership to denounce the chat.
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Elissa Slotkin raises alarm over secret Trump-era terrorist group designation list
US Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) called a new policy enacted by President Donald Trump “unprecedented” and “straight out of an authoritarian playbook, where the President gets to play judge, jury and executioner.”
