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A Michigan House committee has approved a bill creating literacy benchmarks for students to reach by the end of third grade. If they don’t hit their mark they’re held back a grade. The legislation would require students who fall short to take intensive reading courses to bring them up to …

The state Senate is calling on the federal government to allow for special use permits for existing hunting camps in the Upper Peninsula’s Ottawa National Forest. Leases for land the hunting camps sit on are about to expire and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) wants that property vacated. But state …

The state would no longer keep an eye on the food being dished out at Michigan’s prisons, under bills aired before a House committee Thursday. The legislation cuts the state out of the prison kitchen inspection business and hands those duties off to county public health departments. The measures were …