Tag: money
Amid drug crisis, one Michigan city is using money to help backfill budget | Bridge Michigan
Farmington Hills has used about $120,000 from an opioid lawsuit settlement to repay itself for past drug-fighting costs. Almost all other cities are using the money to help current users or future drug-fighting efforts….
Michigan communities sit on $90M meant to help drug users, Bridge finds | Bridge Michigan
Michigan doesnât track how cities are spending their share of a landmark lawsuit settlement with opioid manufacturers. A Bridge investigation finds 4 in 10 havenât spent money yet on the crisis that has upended thousands of lives….
How is your Michigan community spending opioid settlement money? Look it up | Bridge Michigan
Use Bridgeâs database to search how opioid settlement funds are being allocated by community in Michigan. Most of the money is being spent on recovery, drug courts, defibrillators and the like….
Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash | Great Lakes Now
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
South Bruce RWTO celebrate new school year with brunch meeting
Twenty-four members of the South Bruce Retired Women Teachers of Ontario/Organization des enseignantes retraitées de l’Ontario (RWTO/OERO) and two guests celebrated the joy of not returning to school at a brunch held Sept. 3 at Ainsdale Golf Course. After a delicious breakfast and enjoyable time socializing, president Frances Nixon introduced the lone gentleman, pharmacist Mike McKechnie […]
Tenants’ group frustrated as ‘toothless’ renoviction bylaw moves ahead
London tenants are a key step closer to getting more protection from renovictions under a bylaw approved by a council committee Monday.
As US Postal Service bleeds money, some in Michigan will drive miles for mail | Bridge Michigan
The Postal Service is trimming contract units that provide PO boxes. In Salem Township, that means dozens of residents will have to make a 14-mile round trip to pick up their mail….
Palisades nuclear relaunch gets more subsidies in Michigan — and more backlash | Bridge Michigan
The federal government will provide more than $600 million to help two rural electricity cooperatives buy money from the nuclear plant. While proponents celebrate, anti-nuclear activists say the money could be better spent elsewhere….
25 years after a major toxic lead cleanup, westside neighbors still don’t feel safe | Great Lakes Now
By Enrique Saenz, Mirror Indy
Mirror Indy is a part of Free Press Indiana, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to ensuring all Hoosiers have access to the news and information they need.
The first thing Patti Daviau sees when she opens the front door of her home on South Harris Avenue every morning is a thick bunch of weeds reaching through a 500-foot stretch of chain link fence across the street.