High school basketball players were not even born when Swami first became a keeper of the scoreboard and before the game had been streamlined. Back then, the All-Knowing-One had to get accustomed to not having a possession arrow, so a jump ball would occur at the closest circle. It was only ...
Michigan’s Republican House majority and Democratic Senate majority face an early test of whether they can agree with each other. That’s because there will be a paid sick leave mandate coming in late February, along with increases in the minimum wage. Some lawmakers want to change the laws ...
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Where have all the neighborhood grocery stores gone? Gone to large retail chains everyone. Where have all the large retail chains gone? Gone to consolidation everyone. “Food desert” is a term that was coined in 1995 by a task force studying what was then a relatively new phenomenon, ...
First Debbie Stabenow. Now Gary Peters. And in a nanosecond of political reality, Michigan will go from having a wealth of seniority and swagger/influence in the U.S. Senate to being two years away from having virtually none. Ouch. Such is the storyline on the decision by U.S. Senator ...
As the tax filing season begins, residents who are eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit are reminded that Michigan’s EITC was boosted in 2023. Public Act 4 of 2023 expanded the Michigan EITC from 6% of the federal EITC to 30%. This credit expansion is retroactive to the 2022 tax ...