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The August 5, 2026 primary determines who advances to the November ballot for Cascade Township trustee seats, Kent Co...
Mike Rogers (R), the unopposed GOP nominee, faces Abdul El-Sayed (D) in the race to fill Michigan's open U.S. Senate ...
Three seats on the Forest Hills Public Schools Board of Education are up for election in November 2026. The board gov...
Ada Township has Supervisor and Trustee seats on the August 4, 2026 primary ballot. The elected board governs Ada Tow...
New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission automatic voter registration system registered approximately 6,600 people who i...
Four of Grand Rapids' six ward seats and the at-large seat are on the August 2026 primary ballot. The races will shap...
It's an open-seat race. Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited, and other executive seats such as Lieut...
In March 2026, Cascade Charter Township voted 7–0 to pause all data center permits for up to 12 months while the Plan...
Lansing is one of about two dozen Michigan cities that levy a local income tax — 1% on residents, 0.5% on people who ...
Downtown Lansing has several large mixed-use and residential proposals moving through City Council, many requesting B...
A proposed ordinance would require Lansing landlords to register rental units and pass a periodic city inspection bef...
Lansing Board of Water & Light — the city-owned utility serving Lansing since 1885 — retired its last coal-fired gene...
On August 4, 2026, Cascade Township voters will decide whether to keep a new zoning ordinance adopted in February 202...
WMEAC and Kent County Health Department's 2025 Thornapple River monitoring found E. coli within safe recreational lim...
Michigan Public Act 238 of 2023 requires all municipalities to allow at least one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on an...
Michigan's Schools of Choice Act allows any student to enroll in a participating public school district outside their...
Summer 2026 construction: (1) Cascade Road SE resurfacing, 28th St to Thornapple River Dr — July–August, one-lane alt...
FHPS is closing a $4.2 million budget gap driven by declining enrollment (which cuts per-pupil state funding) and ris...
Two new Corewell Health urgent care clinics are opening in the Cascade/Caledonia corridor in mid-2026. Urgent care ha...
Forest Hills Public Schools added full-time licensed counselors to all four middle schools (East, Central, North, Sou...
Corewell Health terminated contracts with Priority Health Medicare Advantage, Blue Cross Medicare Advantage, and Unit...
Kent County Sheriff's 2025 annual report shows a 6.4-minute average Priority 1 response time in Cascade Township (up ...
Michigan's Proposal A (1994) caps annual property tax increases for homeowners at the rate of inflation or 5%, whiche...
Grand Rapids has one of the highest rates of visible homelessness among mid-sized U.S. cities. The city commission is...
Kent County voters will decide August 4 whether to renew the 1.0-mill property tax that funds Network180, the county'...
Hillary Scholten (D) represents Michigan's 3rd Congressional District — covering Kent County (Grand Rapids, Cascade, ...
US-131 passes along the western edge of Ada Township, making land near the highway attractive for commercial and indu...
Like most mid-size Michigan cities, Lansing periodically debates police and fire department staffing levels against r...
Old Town (north of downtown along the Grand River) and REO Town (south of downtown, named for the Ransom E. Olds / RE...
The former Red Cedar Golf Course site, just inside Lansing city limits near the Michigan State University border alon...
West Michigan needs an estimated 40,000–60,000 additional housing units by 2030 to meet population and household grow...
NYC's Department of Finance released a supplemental property roll/database naming owners and addresses of condos and ...
A petition organized by Giovanni Galante and other 9/11 victims' family members calls on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum t...
In late July 2026, the NYC Department of Finance, under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, published a searchable public database ...
The Kent County Road Commission faces a $280M deferred maintenance backlog. A county-wide road millage renewal is exp...
The 2022 fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya by GRPD Officer Christopher Schurr triggered the most significant public acc...
Grand Rapids has an estimated 12,000–16,000 lead service lines connecting homes to the city water main. EPA's 2024 Le...
Grand Rapids needs an estimated 8,500 additional affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income households. Th...
Grand Rapids has issued over $300M in tax abatements for downtown and near-downtown development since 2018. Supporter...
Cascade Township is redesigning Tassel Park on the Thornapple River with a $9M+ plan that includes a sunken plaza, sp...
The world is writing the first binding rules for artificial intelligence — and the U.S. is choosing how much to parti...
West Michigan's I-96 corridor is ground zero for Michigan's data center debate. Cascade approved a 6-month moratorium...
Lowell Township is considering a 6-month moratorium on data center permits. Microsoft (via Franklin Partners) had pro...
Gaines Township Planning Commission voted 7-0 to table Microsoft's rezoning request after a packed April 15 hearing w...
Multiple proposals for large-scale data center campuses have been submitted to the Cascade Township Planning Commissi...
State Rep. Skaggs introduced HB 5724 to create statewide baseline zoning standards for large-scale data centers cover...
The Michigan PSC opened Case U-22103 to examine the grid and ratepayer implications of large-scale data center electr...
Michigan's Early Literacy Support Act (PA 2023-039) replaced the Read by Grade Three retention law with mandatory ear...
Michigan Public Act 4 of 2023 is phasing back in state income tax exemptions for pension and retirement income repeal...
Gov. Whitmer's 2024 expansion of the Child Development and Care (CDC) subsidy raised the income limit to 200% of the ...
Michigan's Clean Energy and Jobs Act (PA 2023-235) requires 100% clean energy from utilities by 2040 and 50% renewabl...
Michigan's Universal School Meals Act (PA 2023-120) made Michigan one of eight states offering free breakfast and lun...
The federal reconciliation bill (2025) requires Medicaid recipients aged 19–64 to document 80 hours/month of work, ed...
Michigan's Motor Vehicle Right to Repair Act (PA 2025-022) requires automakers to share diagnostic data, repair softw...
Michigan voters will decide on multiple statewide proposals in November 2026 alongside the Governor's race and full s...
The Trump administration's 2025 immigration enforcement surge has put Michigan local governments in the middle of a f...
Michigan is the center of the U.S. auto industry's shift to electric vehicles. GM, Ford, and Stellantis have committe...
Median home prices in Michigan have risen more than 40% since 2020, with West Michigan and metro Detroit seeing some ...
Mamdani has proposed five city-owned grocery stores, one per borough, targeting opening by 2029, with La Marqueta (Ma...
The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has eliminated over 200,000 federal positions and cut $80B...
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 6.9% in June 2026 (Freddie Mac). For a $350,000 home (near the Cascade Tow...
The US–Canada trade dispute has resulted in 25% tariffs on Canadian goods crossing the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit —...
President Trump signed an executive order designating AI infrastructure as a national security priority, directing FE...
The five-year COVID payment pause ended; interest resumed in 2023 and collections on defaulted loans restarted in 202...
Goldman Sachs Research (2025 update) estimates AI automation could affect up to 300 million full-time-equivalent jobs...
Trump's 2025 tariff escalations — 145% on Chinese imports, 25% on Canadian and Mexican goods — triggered retaliation ...
The Inflation Reduction Act authorized Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices for the first time. The first 10 ne...
The 2025 reconciliation bill cut Medicaid by approximately $800B nationally through reduced federal matching rates. M...
NOAA confirmed 2024 as the hottest year on record (1.49°C above pre-industrial). Great Lakes surface temperatures are...
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's 2023 advisory found that lacking social connection increases risk of premature de...
The Social Security Fairness Act (January 2025) repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pens...
CDC 2023 data: firearms killed 48,204 Americans — surpassing motor vehicle deaths (42,939) for the third consecutive ...
President Trump signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs — 10% baseline on all imports, 25% on Canada and Me...
A widely-shared claim that Medicare for All represents communist ideology. We test what the evidence supports, where ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before a GOP-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing chai...
Hostilities between the US/Israel and Iran resumed after a ceasefire (reached via a June 17, 2026 US-Iran memorandum)...
Trump has repeatedly and publicly threatened since at least April 2026 to destroy Iran's bridges and power plants if ...
Tucker Carlson stated in comments reported July 27, 2026 that Qatar's society is more socially conservative and close...
Iran held approximately 441 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% as of mid-2025 IAEA estimates — far above the 3-5% t...
The rapid expansion of AI data centers is creating conflicts across the country between tech companies seeking power,...