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Michigan bans smartphones in classrooms starting next school year - what the new bipartisan law does and doesn’t do. Plus, Perry Johnson on entering the GOP primary for governor, Trump, and his pitch to voters.

The law creates a basic statewide policy for districts to follow when it comes to handling phones in schools. It only applies to instructional time in public and charter K-12 schools, but districts can pass their own stricter bans.

The school smartphone ban on the way to the state Senate would create exemptions for medical issues, lessons that involve devices, and for basic phones that can't download apps or use internet browsers.

A Republican representative is working to rewrite a bill to restrict smartphones in Michigan public schools. The original version fell three votes short of passing.

Smartphones are often blamed for ruining the mental health of the people who use them. A new study involving University of Michigan researchers is looking at ways to use smartphones to understand a patient’s trending mental health.

What the Project 2025 playbook might look like for Michigan during a second Trump term. Then, a beautifully illustrated 60-year-old children’s book written by a nonagenarian Beaver Island resident publishes for the first time. And, things to keep in mind for yourself and children while summertime doom scrolling on your phone.

Can emojis – those little expressive cartoons that pop up on cell phones and online – help protect users' internet privacy? That's the question that…

What’s the first thing you do when you’re waiting at the post office or a bus stop? Likely, you whip out your smart phone. That's according to Daniel…

Michigan state police have been using cell phone tracking devices for nearly ten years.That’s according to documents the American Civil Liberties Union…

The recent announcement that new emojis are coming to a keyboard near you in 2016 caught our attention. The emoji powers that be (and yes, that exists!)…