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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Defending Education filed a civil rights complaint against Michigan’s Kalamazoo Public Schools over hiring practices and staffing requirements that the conservative group allege are race-based.
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Reporting from Just the News
Stephen Hubbard was the oldest American held in Russia and the only one in Russia currently designated by the U.S. as wrongfully detained.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Michigan ranked 30th nationally in Truth in Accounting’s 2026 “Financial State of the States” report.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is suing Michigan over its reclassification of home caregivers as state employees for collective bargaining purposes.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — A Tennessee financial firm is auditing the records of a Detroit megachurch's nonprofit after The Center Square's investigation uncovered numerous potential errors in the nonprofit's annual tax filings, according to the firm's leader.
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Reporting from Just the News
The ties that bind: El-Sayed’s own half-sister has publicly and repeatedly described family ties to branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has widely been designated as a terrorist group. His flat-out denial leaves Michigan voters to weigh his word against hers as they choose a senator who would be privy to classified material and vote on national security issues.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her delegation spent more than $200,000 on an eight-day trip to Asia in September, averaging $26,000 per day.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Detroit residents continue to face high living costs, an issue likely to remain a key concern as the November election approaches.
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Reporting from The Center Square
I've spent a good part of my life in the trenches of Michigan politics – running the state Republican Party, working campaigns, and watching up close how voters actually make up their minds. If there's one lesson that stuck with me, it's this: a campaign can knock on every door, run every ad, and send every piece of mail in the state, but nothing moves voters like watching two candidates stand on the same stage and go at it without any handlers, scripts or teleprompter to hide behind.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Lansing police are investigating possible connections between the deaths of five homeless men along the city’s river trail over the past year, after a 23-year-old man was charged with murder in one of the cases.
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