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Michigan Democrats eye housing reform in waning days of lame-duck session

Trump will cut ribbons for infrastructure projects Biden funded

Then Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference on July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Proposed tax credit could ease burden on Michigan families, child care providers

Kristen McDonald Rivet

Kalamazoo County, Detroit among communities to improve road safety using federal aid

City of Kalamazoo snow plows clear snow from West Michigan Avenue in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022. (Joel Bissell | MLive.com)

Michigan school districts get electric buses through bipartisan infrastructure law grants

Debbie Stabenow and electric school bus

Wind turbines are seen in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Oct 15, 2021. (STRF/STAR MAX/IPx)

Inflation Reduction Act has led to a clean energy boom, new reports show

Solar electric panels are viewed outside of a home in the Wedgefield neigborhood, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (Phelan M. Ebenhack via AP)

Thousands of Michigan residents claimed home energy tax credits

Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign rally at Radford University, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Radford, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

J.D. Vance said parents should ‘have more power’ than people without children

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen tours the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center before speaking about the Biden Administration's economic agenda in Dearborn, Mich., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Michigan among 10 biggest beneficiaries of clean energy jobs boom

Michigan Capitol dome in Autumn with a tree with red leaves in the foreground..

From education to infrastructure: What Michiganders can expect from $82.5B state budget

Panoramic photo of the restored Michigan Central Station.

Detroit’s formerly dilapidated Michigan Central Station restored

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at the Mackinac Policy Conference in Mackinac Island, Michigan, on May 30, 2024.

Michigan launches ‘Shark Tank’-style competition to meet state’s transportation needs

A Lion electric school bus is seen on display in Austin, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023. The Transportation Department is awarding almost $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero and low emission buses, with the money going to transit projects in 46 states and territories. The grants will enable transit agencies and state and local governments to buy 1,700 U.S.-built buses, nearly half of which will have zero carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Michigan schools get federal funds for new clean school buses

Young's Environmental Cleanup Inc. workers begin the cleanup of a Wolverine World Wide historic dumpsite on MDOT property in Belmont, Michigan, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Testing has found unsafe levels of hazardous chemicals from a decades-old tannery waste dump site in western Michigan in private residential drinking water wells in an expanded area.

Michigan awards $32 million to clean up neighborhoods harmed by environmental injustice

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., arrives to the U.S. Capitol before the House voted to send an articles of impeachment resolution against President Joe Biden to committees on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Rep. Elissa Slotkin seeks funding for Michigan infrastructure and safety projects

Michigan Capitol dome in Autumn with a tree with red leaves in the foreground..

Local communities’ fight over short-term rentals inspires Michigan House bills

Tractors and road construction equipment next to the street.

A new jobs program in Michigan will help thousands find work