Tag: Michigan
Deep in conspiracy country, a Michigan election clerk reconsiders retirement | Bridge Michigan
Antrim County, epicenter of 2020 election conspiracy theories, is set to elect a new clerk. Itâs getting contentious….
Michigan confirms 1st human case of West Nile virus this year | Bridge Michigan
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Michiganâs first human West Nile virus case of 2024. The Livingston County resident contracted the virus last month when they traveled to another state….
Raising monarch butterflies in Interlochen | Great Lakes Now
By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with IPR and Grist, a nonprofit independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
Magnolia Montgomery, age 12, peered into a rectangular enclosure covered with white mesh.
Michigan early voting check-in outage ‘shouldn’t happen again,’ Benson says | Bridge Michigan
A voter check-in outage complicated the start of Michiganâs new early voting period. But the state says it has a fix….
Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax | Great Lakes Now
By Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner
A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is deeply flawed and the standards should be stricter.
Dave Belluck, who worked as a toxicologist for multiple states and the federal government, says that “the science is the science” and regulating agencies, including the U.S.