Susan J. Demas As Michigan’s budget stalemate continues in the weeks leading up to Labor Day, one area of consternation between the Democratic-led state Senate and the Republican-controlled state ...

Larry Kirchhoff likes to make his views known. Kirchhoff owns the local HVAC service company All Star Mechanical. In 2022, he bought a full-page ad in City Pulse in which he tied his business to ...

“Both uncertainty as well as other internal local governmental capacity challenges are hindering some local governments from girding themselves for the coming drop in revenues that will impact their ...

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) speaks to members of the Capitol press corps following the removal of state Rep. Alabas Farhat (D-Dearborn). July 24, 2025 | Ben Solis/Michigan ...

In November 2021, The Kalamazoo Gazette reported that a “pod community” of 50 ModPods — portable, tiny homes — was in the ...

One of the goals of the “She Ate/He Ate” column has always been to promote local businesses. We don’t aim to malign ...

Who turned the green light off? To depress us teenagers even more, my high school English class had us read “The Great Gatsby ...

The Drain Commissioner, engineers, and/or other staff members will be available to assist individuals throughout the day and make revisions where necessary. There is no need to schedule an appointment ...

For more than a half century, students, faculty and staff have found the quiet pond hidden behind the Student Services Building at Michigan State University a place to go for solitude. When I worked … ...

Just over a week after state Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-West Bloomfield) announced she would not seek reelection in 2026, an Oakland County deputy executive has stepped up in hopes of taking Bayer’s ...

Larry Kirchhoff likes to make his views known. Kirchhoff owns the local HVAC service company All Star Mechanical. In 2022, ...

AI uses in local government Garces’ team is looking to update its 2023 guidelines, and surveyed its workforce this spring about how they currently use AI. Of those surveyed, 60% of employees said that ...