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Northern Michigan school districts forced into extended shutdowns due to massive ice storms this past spring will have a waiver from minimum attendance mandates.

There are months of work ahead just to clear roads, an official with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says.

The state House is poised to vote on legislation to allocate 75 million dollars toward recovery efforts following massive ice storms across northern Michigan in March.

On this edition of Stateside, a discussion on the damage caused by the ice storms in late March in Northern Michigan, along with Ingham County’s first confirmed measles case and ways to stay protected.

Budget woes hit the Detroit Downriver suburb of Ecorse, following the cougars of Michigan, upgrading the state's power grid and supply and updates on the damage caused by ice storms in the Upper Peninsula.

The governor also expanded a state of emergency declaration to add Alcona and Antrim counties as thousands are still without power.

First, we check in on consumer sentiment on the state of the economy. Then, we look into the University of Michigan's history with affirmative action to decipher its current actions.

Relief from a brutal ice storm — which left thousands without power across Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula — could be a few days off yet, according to forecasts.

We checked in about the deafening chorus of unhappiness with power outages across Michigan. Also, Michigan State University reevaluates safety measures after a deadly mass shooting. Plus, we looked at how federal oversight is failing teenaged migrants in hazardous blue collar jobs.

A University of Michigan researcher explained what went wrong with the grid during Wednesday night's ice storm, and why so many are still out of power. Plus, a conversation about how Indigenous people are reclaiming space in Midwestern cities.