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Michigan Senate Committee Clears Renters Rights Bills
Lawmakers on the Senate Housing and Human Services Committee heard testimony earlier this month from tenants and advocacy groups.

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Lawmakers on the Senate Housing and Human Services Committee heard testimony earlier this month from tenants and advocacy groups.

GM hopes to assemble more than 2 million vehicles per year in the U.S., focusing on plants in Michigan, Kansas and Tennessee.
He appeared briefly in a downtown Nashville courtroom late Friday and is scheduled to return to court this Friday.
“I’m not against progress, or electricity, the grids, the expansion,” Marcia Klein told Michigan Advance. “It’s just the wrong place.”
The settlement comes more than two years after a gunman opened fire at the university, killing three students and injuring five.
A tenured faculty union at Michigan State University appears to be on the cusp of recognition without the need for a formal election.
“Matt Hall’s attempt to hold the House of Representatives hostage by rewriting history has been received and will be filed accordingly.”
Vaccination rates among Michigan children began to drop during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speakers at Michigan State University’s spring graduation, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chief medical adviser to the president.
"We are constantly reeling from one mass shooting to the next, and in between we have homicides, suicides and accidents."
The counts were filed by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism Unit.
The Clean Water Act was meant to apply to “navigable waters,” Hovland said.
An unhoused person who is 40 years old has a similar mortality risk to a 60-year-old with housing.
“People leaving the profession — the likelihood of that will continue until the shortage is addressed,” Beauchamp said.
A tax cut triggered by the state's record budget surplus will drop Michigan's tax rate to its lowest level in more than 15 years.
Those who would violate the new law are subject to two to five years in prison, according to the bill text.
“I didn’t get here by accident. I’ve been working in the movement for decades and decades,” Dievendorf said.
This is a hot war. We know which side is the aggressor. Gun extremists aren’t just political misfits. They are belligerents.
“Bigotry is bad for business,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in her January State of the State speech.
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