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When the Michigan government tried in 2016 to restrict what school districts could say about local ballot questions, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction that described the idea as “unconstitutionally vague.” https://t.co/tVqrRN3Kzx

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Michigan’s public schools suffer from an inadequate funding mechanism, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said in recent comments reported by Fox News. But the state abandoned that approach to funding in 1994. https://t.co/DOCfwBwg2m

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Michigan voters on Nov. 3 will decide a ballot proposal marketed as limiting the political influence of utilities and government contractors by amending the state’s campaign finance laws. https://t.co/3bNNgcrO3w

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The Mop Up Michigan ballot proposal is being fueled with millions of dollars from out-of-state interest groups seeking to restrict the political spending of utilities. While the proposal’s national backers depict Proposal 2 as an attempt to get money out of politics, they are using the same kind of financial influence in the state to push an initiative that would restrict free speech for nonprofits and other groups in Michigan.

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A Michigan Senate bill seeks to require people and organizations that publish certain paid political social media posts to disclose who funded them. It includes specific requirements for videos, graphics and audio but exempts certain media. https://t.co/BTpIlRhVEl

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The Mop Up Michigan ballot proposal is being fueled with millions of dollars from out-of-state interest groups seeking to restrict the political spending of utilities.

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🚨Out-of-State dark money bankrolls Michigan ‘Money Out of Politics’ ballot push. https://t.co/tAoHih7w37

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Funding for public schools in Michigan has grown faster than inflation since before the pandemic. https://t.co/sw3aveiDZN

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Dearborn voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve a $1.51 billion bond package that Dearborn Public Schools could use to replace or remodel every school in the district over the next 20 years. https://t.co/RFOL3ZDC5q

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A property owner’s dispute with Leland Township zoning officials turned more expensive when the owner paid the township $8,000 to revisit a decision to deny a zoning request. Three others who filed an appeal over the last five years paid $300 each, by contrast. Read story: https://t.co/aScbjolotE

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A property owner’s dispute with Leland Township zoning officials turned more expensive when the owner paid the township $8,000 to revisit a decision to deny a zoning request. Three others who filed an appeal over the last five years paid $300 each, by contrast. https://t.co/aScbjolotE

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Eugene Wanger helped write Michigan’s current constitution when he was 28 years old. Today he is the last survivor of the 144 delegates who met at the Lansing Civic Center on Oct. 3, 1961, to start drafting what became the current Michigan Constitution, the primary law of the state, which voters approved in 1963.https://t.co/831tRXdDmN

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Michigan voters on Nov. 3 will decide a ballot proposal marketed as limiting the political influence of utilities and government contractors by amending the state’s campaign finance laws. https://t.co/3bNNgcrO3w

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Funding for public schools in Michigan has grown faster than inflation since before the pandemic. https://t.co/sw3avei6af

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Eugene Wanger helped write Michigan’s current constitution when he was 28 years old. Today he is the last survivor of the 144 delegates who met at the Lansing Civic Center on Oct. 3, 1961, to start drafting what became the current Michigan Constitution, the primary law of the state, which voters approved in 1963.

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Dearborn voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve a $1.51 billion bond package that Dearborn Public Schools could use to replace or remodel every school in the district over the next 20 years. Read story: https://t.co/RFOL3ZD4fS

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Dearborn voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve a $1.51 billion bond package that Dearborn Public Schools could use to replace or remodel every school in the district over the next 20 years. https://t.co/RFOL3ZD4fS

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About 8 million people move across state lines every year, and the cost of living matters to where they end up. Michigan, which has below-average population growth, imposes above-average costs on homebuyers, according to new research. https://t.co/yKrxYqN3OS

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A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan returned an indictment charging Emory Matthews, 62, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, with conspiring to bill Medicare for psychotherapy services that an adult daycare center his wife owned never provided to patients. https://t.co/gVpl5acx74