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As part of the settlement, the loan servicing company Navient agreed to pay $95 million for states to offer affected borrowers some reimbursement — roughly $260 each to 350,000 borrowers.

Some Michigan student loan borrowers eligible for relief under settlement

Loan servicer Navient reached a settlement with 39 state attorneys general on behalf of more than 400,000 borrowers.

Some Michigan prisons are accelerating the return of staff after a positive coronavirus test.

As COVID-19 spreads in Michigan prisons, isolation is shortened for corrections staff

At short-staffed prisons, corrections staff who get COVID-19 can now return to work five days after a positive coronavirus test if they’re asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and wear a KN95 mask.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday she’d sign a reproductive rights package even if the Legislature sends her a less expansive plan than she asked for.

Whitmer says she’d sign reproductive rights package that’s less than she asked for

Whitmer said repealing abortion restrictions is necessary to align state laws with the reproductive rights amendment adopted last year by a 57% to 43% margin.

Public schools will have to post notices on parents' rights in education

Public schools will have to post notices regarding parents’ rights and a clause from the Michigan Constitution on the role of religion and morality in education. That’s under a bill signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Bigfoot visits Michigan

You may not have seen it in the latest Pure Michigan ad, but the state would be a great place for any Bigfoot looking to relocate.So says, Cliff Barackman…

Michigan ACLU wants outside prosecutors to handle police shooting deaths

The ACLU of Michigan wants state law to be changed so that local prosecutors would no longer handle cases involving deaths caused by police in their home…

Whitmer: Michigan to be carbon neutral by 2050

Michigan is on the road to carbon neutrality by 2050, per an executive order Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed on Wednesday.Whitmer made the announcement…

State leaders will consider tax cuts, but with a recession likely, one group suggests saving part of the state's surplus of revenue in a rainy day fund.

Recommendation: Michigan should save some of its $7 billion surplus for possible recession

The State of Michigan got more money than expected and wants to cut taxes. A public policy group suggests some of the surplus should go in a rainy day fund.

This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy">website</a>.

An ornithologist, a cellist and a human rights activist: the 2022 MacArthur Fellows

This year's MacArthur Fellows include scientists, artists and historians. The so-called MacArthur "geniuses" receive unrestricted grants of $800,000 for their "exceptional creativity" and "promise."

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Recruited by Ford a century ago, Michigan’s Yemeni community has come into its own

Southeast Michigan – specifically cities like Hamtramck and Dearborn – is known as a hub of Arab American culture. But that group is not a monolith.…

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