Detroit, MI|News|
To Mask Or Not To Mask: How Some Capital City Businesses Are Navigating Relaxed CDC Guidelines
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit businesses hard, particularly smaller operations.

The Michigan Advance, a hard-hitting, nonprofit news site, covers politics and policy across the state of Michigan through in-depth stories, blog posts, and social media updates, as well as top-notch progressive commentary. The Advance is part of States Newsroom, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by grants and a coalition of donors and readers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit businesses hard, particularly smaller operations.

The plan utilizes the surplus to propose over $1.7 billion in one-time funding and allocates over $900 million for ongoing investments.
Some of the same militia members who aided in the Whitmer murder plot also “conducted a dress rehearsal” for Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
The bill would ban transgender boys from cisgender boys’ sports teams and transgender girls from cisgender girls’ teams.
THRIVE would create more than 15.5 million jobs per year and “virtually end unemployment."
Michigan Agricultural Services on Friday broke ground on a 25,500-square-foot high-tech indoor commercial cannabis processing facility.
Here are some of the most noteworthy pieces of legislation.
It's been a tumultuous year and a half in Lansing.
Hundreds of health care workers were vaccine hesitant in a recent survey.
State and national experts on Thursday discussed the need to incorporate equity in current and future infrastructure plans.
Thirty-five Republicans joined with Democrats in backing the measure, which would set up a 10-member commission styled on the panel.
St. Joseph County 3B District Court Chief Judge Jeffrey Middleton shocked his thousands of YouTube followers this week.
A Senate committee on Wednesday continued discussions on bills in a sweeping GOP voting restriction package that's been widely criticized.
Michigan's coal-fired power plants are annually generating more than 1 million tons of waste that's laden with lead, mercury and arsenic.
The White House under Democratic President Joe Biden has yet to give an inkling of the administration’s stance on Line 5.
House Republicans passed House Bill 4400 last week that would better fund universities with more in-state students for Fiscal Year 2022.
On the final day of COVID-19 vaccinations at Ford Field, a state government official reported that the eight-week effort was a success.
These are the days of fragile hope.
The House Oversight Committee voted to send a bill banning governmental entities from producing or issuing a COVID-19 vaccine passport.
The Indigenous-led celebrations of Enbridge's “eviction” from the Straits of Mackinac continued Thursday.