Mark Richardson, Michigan News Connection

Rodney Fresh, a high school social studies teacher in Detroit, said parts of the Republican agenda appear to call for dismantling the public education system

Tags: Politics & Elections, 2024 Election, Education, Detroit Public Schools, Rodney Fresh, Project 2025

The MSU analysis of over 175,000 voters removed between 2014 and 2018 found higher purge rates in cities, and among Black voters and registered Democrats

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“[The] idea when you try to remove a book because you don’t like the ideas contained in the book, that raises constitutional issues,” says Jay Kaplan, staff attorney for the ACLU of Michigan

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In a petition to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the coalition claims the pipeline is a threat to the human rights of front line Indigenous communities and to the environment

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Experts say the move will bring major health improvements to Michigan and other Midwestern states

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