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Showdown brewing over Lansing's city budget for next year 17 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
The Lansing city council has rejected a plan to increase fees on city utility customers. The city council today approved a budget plan that axes the 46 dollar utility fee and several million dollars i...
Things that go boom in the night? Maybe not 17 May 2013 | 08:50 pm
When Michigan relaxed its fireworks laws last year, some people took things too far. Now lawmakers may make some changes. The idea of the original law was to give municipalities more flexibility in ...
3 ways to procrastinate and feel like a better person 17 May 2013 | 08:30 pm
It's Friday. Your Facebook news feed is stale and if time slowed down any more it would stop. Here are three ways to procrastinate, while simultaneously making yourself think that you're becoming a be...
Election 2014: The running season is here 17 May 2013 | 07:11 pm
This week’s It’s Just Politics deserves a little running music (we’re thinking the theme to Chariots of Fire would fit well) because we’re looking at who’s in, who’s out, who’s thinking of getting in ...
The 15 Michigan schools running the biggest deficits 17 May 2013 | 06:22 pm
Bake sales, magazine subscriptions, and car washes... it seems school systems are perennially low on money. But with one Michigan school system closing its doors before the school year ends, others co...
Update on Flint native imprisoned in Iran: sister meets with Swiss ambassador 17 May 2013 | 06:06 pm
Although Amir Hekmati remains in police custody in Tehran, the most recent updates on the case provide some hope. Since Michigan Radio’s Stateside report this past Wednesday , Amir Hekmati's sister, S...
DNR steps up salvaging of diseased Michigan trees 17 May 2013 | 04:26 pm
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is stepping up salvaging of trees that are dying from infestations of the emerald ash borer and beech bark disease.
In this morning's news: Michigan Medicaid expansion, charter schools, Flint school layoffs 17 May 2013 | 03:55 pm
Michigan Medicaid expansion uncertain Legislation that will determine the future of Michigan Medicaid is at a standstill. On Thursday, the state Senate passed a budget bill that did not include Medica...
Michiganders feel this morning's Canadian earthquakes 17 May 2013 | 03:39 pm
TORONTO (AP) - Earthquakes Canada is reporting a 5.1-magnitude earthquake just west of Ottawa that was felt as far away as Toronto. The federal agency that monitors earthquakes revised its original re...
Dow Chemical plans to appeal a big class action suit decision 17 May 2013 | 04:43 am
A federal judge has slapped Midland-based Dow Chemical with a billion dollar judgment in a price fixing case. The company allegedly colluded with its competitors to fix the price of urethane. The coll...
