Kyle Davidson

While campaigning for the politically purple 7th Congressional District, Lansing-area political organizer and Democratic nominee William Lawrence has made his opposition to data centers a key facet of his campaign. On Thursday, Lawrence took that call further, rolling out a plan to “Stop Tech Overreach.” The plan expands on his promises to push for a federal moratorium on data center development to establish proper guardrails.

A Washtenaw County judge on Tuesday dismissed a case arguing the Ann Arbor City Clerk wrongly approved a ballot initiative that would set the city on a course to create a municipal electrical utility.

The latest in a series of federal lawsuits over how the University of Michigan handles campus protests is a pro-Palestine student activist who alleges retaliation against his advocacy.