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Keith Herie is swamped in debt from medical issues he and his wife encountered starting about a decade ago. Heartland hospital is seizing 10 percent of his paycheck and 25 percent of his wife's wages, and has placed a lien on their home.

When Nonprofit Hospitals Sue Their Poorest Patients

In exchange for tax breaks, nonprofit hospitals provide assistance to poor patients. But some hospitals seize wages from poor patients with unpaid bills — even those who qualify for reduced-cost care.

Carstens Elementary-Middle School in Detroit is on Michigan's list of "Persistently Lowest Achieving Schools."

The 15 Michigan schools running the biggest deficits

Bake sales, magazine subscriptions and car washes ... it seems school systems are perennially low on money.But with one Michigan school system closing its…

Analysis finds sharp partisan shift and deregulation in Michigan's environmental laws

Our environment laws in Michigan have become sharply more partisan in the past 14 years.That statement comes from an analysis by MIRS News in Lansing.…

Michigan Radio's Guide to the Ballot Proposals

The rules lawmakers in Lansing play by could change after November 6.That's when you will decide on six statewide ballot proposals.Proposal 1 is a…

Preparing track for the M-1 rail project in Detroit.

Ceremony planned this morning for the M-1 rail project

Dignitaries including Michigan Gov. Snyder, Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, Representatives John Dingell and John Conyers, Detroit Mayor Mike…

Reporters weigh in on Mary Barra's Senate hearing interview

It was day two on Capitol Hill for General Motors CEO Mary Barra.Today, it was the Senate's turn to grill Barra about GM's failure to act on…

Michigan historian tells us how polio shaped FDR's presidency

Michigan historian James Tobin has written a new book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt and how polio shaped the president he became. FDR was our 32nd…

The Freedmen's Bureau, depicted in this 1868 drawing, was created to give legal title for Field Order 15 — better known as "40 acres and a mule."

The Story Behind '40 Acres And A Mule'

As the Civil War was winding down 150 years ago, Union leaders asked their men how they could help the thousands of newly freed slaves.

The city of Des Moines, Iowa, sits on the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers. The city's water works says it will sue three neighboring counties for high nitrate levels in these waterways.

Iowa's Largest City Sues Over Farm Fertilizer Runoff In Rivers

Fertilizer runoff has provoked a confrontation between Des Moines and the farms that surround it. The city's water utility wants to sue neighboring counties for nitrates in the Raccoon River.

3,600-Page Autobiographical Novel Is An Honest And Masterful 'Selfie'

My Struggle is about Karl Ove Knausgaard's wrangle with his father, with death, with his muse and so on. The 46-year-old Norwegian's pointedly unliterary book has become a literary sensation.

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