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It’s setting up to be a busy day at the Capitol Wednesday. As state lawmakers continue to chip away at a plan for Detroit Public Schools, a nurses group and civil rights activists plan separate demonstrations on the Capitol grounds. Registered nurses are scheduled to hold a rally on the …

The state’s auditor general was back in the hot seat Tuesday at the second state legislative hearing on the Flint water crisis. He fielded questions from the six lawmakers on the panel of an audit he performed of the state Department of Environmental Quality’s drinking water division. The committee will …

A Michigan House committee has laid out its education budget recommendations for the coming fiscal year and it includes getting rid of the M-STEP exam. State Representative Tim Kelly, R-Saginaw, is chairman of the committee and says it took way too long for the state to get test results back …