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The Soo Locks have officially opened for the shipping season. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the locks in Sault St. Marie about four days ahead of schedule, after completing important maintenance.
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"Making things. Building things. Working with our hands is America’s heritage and that heritage is alive and well in this facility," Vance told the crowd gathered at a Bay County plastics company.
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Two Greater Lansing Starbucks stores voted to unionize Thursday.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer promises to sign a bill into law that will lower the minimum age from 18 to 17 for employees serving alcohol at restaurants or bars in Michigan.
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The housing crunch has become so bad in northern Michigan, more companies are subsidizing housing for their employees.
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The Okemos Board of Education is asking voters to let the district borrow money for capital improvements.
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The Palisades nuclear power plant in West Michigan shut down on Friday as the final step towards de-commissioning.
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With Michigan looking at a six-billion-dollar budget surplus, advocates for people with physical and mental disabilities say the state needs to spend some of that money on direct care workers.
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Michigan is surpassing revenue predictions by around 6.8-billion dollars for the current and next couple fiscal years. That’s the conclusion of the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference on Friday, May 20.
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The State announced today they’re raising the pay for some seasonal workers to 15 dollars an hour.The Department of Natural Resources says they still need to fill four-hundred seasonal positions. The pay was originally 10 to 12 dollars an hour.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposing giving a $500 tax rebate to what she describes as "Michigan's working families."
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Lansing's City Council adopted a nearly $242 million budget Monday night, and, according to one metric, the city's financial forecast is looking sunnier.