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New Requirement: Michigan High Schools Must Now Offer Personal Finance Classes
While managing personal finances is something all of us get thrust into, it's a lesson that's more or less been missing from high school. That, however, is now changing in Michigan. All Michigan freshmen are now required to take a personal finance course. Finance Classes Have Been Lacking in Michigan...
WATCH: GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance to visit Michigan
WASHINGTON - Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance will return to Michigan on Tuesday when he makes an appearance in Big Rapids. According to the Donald Trump for President campaign, Vance will talk about the economy, inflation and manufacturing on his trip to west Michigan. He will be visiting a private business during the trip. The campaign has not clarified if the event will be open to the public or not.
Water temperatures heat up in Lake Michigan
MICHIGAN, USA — It might be the last time you'll get to break out the swimsuit this summer, West Michigan. Water temperatures are on the rise amid a heat wave in the area. Tuesday is the peak of West Michigan's heat, with temperatures climbing as high as the lower to middle 90s. The only exception will be the immediate lakeshore, where the upper 80s are expected for high temperatures. There’ll be no escaping the humidity as dew points soar into the lower to middle 70s.
Portage helps the state appeal FEMA's denial of federal disaster relief for tornado damage
In July, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied a disaster relief request for Southwest Michigan. Governor Gretchen Whitmer submitted the request after tornadoes and other storms struck the area on May 7. The state has until September 21 to appeal the decision. In an effort to win that appeal,...
New federal grant will help Lake Superior communities ward off costly flooding
A $1.45 million federal project will help communities across Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan prepare for floods by building up resilience along the Lake Superior coast and reestablishing the land’s ability to store water and release it slowly. The project, which is funded by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, is one of 19...
In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies
PORT AUSTIN, Mich. — Deep in the thumb of Michigan’s mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula, Republican election officials are outcasts in their rural communities. Michigan cities already were familiar with the consequences of election conspiracy theories. In 2020, Republicans flooded Detroit’s ballot counting center looking for fraud. Democratic and Republican election officials faced an onslaught of threats. […]
Donnie Wahlberg hits the links in Michigan, helps raise $1 million for pediatric patients
DETROIT - Every single dollar raised at this big celebrity golf outing stays right here in Michigan, benefiting pediatric patients and their families. The fourth Feldman Automotive Children’s Miracle Celebrity Invitational took place on a hot and humid late August day on Monday, the 26 at the Detroit Golf Club.
The Right Place helps create AI roadmap for local manufacturers
Economic nonprofit development organization, The Right Place’s Manufacturing Council has teamed with the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center and Twisthink, a Grand Rapids firm specializing in new product innovations, to create an AI roadmap, a guide for West Michigan manufacturers on the best ways to utilize artificial intelligence within their own business.
Kids hurt after finding unsecured guns leaves communities frustrated
Last Friday in Madison Heights, a child shot himself in the hand after finding an unsecured handgun. On Saturday in Detroit, a teen shot himself in the leg for the exact same reason.
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