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Governor Rick Snyder says the state’s current immunization rule, which requires parents visit their county public health department and talk to a nurse before signing an immunization waiver, is the right way to go. He says it’s a good middle ground between making it too easy for parents to opt …

Democrats and a few interest groups want the governor to veto a bill that passed the Michigan House and Senate just before lawmakers wrapped up their work for 2015. The legislation, which impacts how schools can communicate information on millages and when political campaigns have to disclose their donors – …

Educators and tax reform advocates are calling on Congress to close offshore corporate tax loopholes. Linda Teeter of Americans for Tax Fairness and Michigan Citizen Action says each year Michigan loses $3.3 billion in state revenue to loopholes that allow corporations to avoid paying taxes on profits hidden overseas. President …

A Michigan House committee, this month, began discussion on how to better protect high school athletes and if that should include requiring an ambulance and an EMT or paramedic be at sporting events such as football games. Sharryn Carter-Ivory’s son Alexander, a running back at River Rouge High School, got …

[Hancock, MI]  The Portage Health Foundation recently awarded $25,000 to L’Anse Area Schools and the Hornet Park Improvement Group for groundwork projects to assist in the construction of a softball field. The school and park group co-applied for funding under the PHFoundation’s adolescent health RFP.  The foundation sought applications focused …

Construction has begun on projects included in a $24.3 million bond issue, and already Michigan Technological University’s investment is having a major economic impact on the community, President Glenn Mroz told the Michigan Tech Board of Trustees at its meeting on Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. Contracts totaling $6.3 million have …

The Michigan Tech Trails will host the 2016 U.S. Nordic Ski Championships in January. This is the 4th time Tech has hosted the event, the first being in 2007. The national event will bring approximately 1000 people to the area, since many racers are not local. Michigan Tech Cross Country …

Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment (MI-TRALE) would like to announce that the Village of Rockland and Stannard Townships has recently received new ORV signage funded by the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians (LVD) 2% grant funds. Don Helsel, the president of …

Nearly 400 Michigan Tech graduates have all the rights, privileges and honors pertaining therein after receiving their degrees at this year’s Winter Commencement Saturday.   Class of 1968’s Townsend Porter, Jr., a pioneer in electrical engineering at the start of the computer age for IBM, was the commencement speaker. Graduating …

An Upper Peninsula judge could be suspended for a few months after admitting to committing misconduct. Chippewa County District Court Judge Elizabeth Church is accused of dismissing charges and tickets, without holding a hearing, in dozens of cases. She also visited a defendant in jail before a trial started and …