Can progressive investors save Michigan’s small-town newspapers? The Michigan Independent Media Group is trying to save the state's small-town papers.

A group of folks who work in progressive politics are buying up weekly newspapers in Michigan to run them as...ordinary community news operations.

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Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students Jordan Acker, who pushed legal action against protesters, is running for re-election in race reflecting tensions on Israel

> When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”

are certainly words your lawyer could write…

Michigan man who plotted mass shooting sentenced to 7 years, judge cites ‘significant remorse’ A federal court judge has sentenced a man who plotted a mass shooting in Owosso but was arrested before he could carry it out to seven years in prison.

Michigan man who plotted mass shooting sentenced to 7 years, judge cites ‘significant remorse’

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Juvenile sentencing in Michigan: Is a 50-year term a de facto life sentence? James Eads was 16-years old when he shot and killed Eric Kincaid on a Detroit street in the spring of 1992.

Juvenile sentencing in Michigan: Is a 50-year term a de facto life sentence?

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British company pulls the plug on Lansing data center proposal The British company Deep Green has withdrawn its proposal to build a $120 million data center in downtown Lansing just ahead of a City Council vote.

And, here, the clear frustration of Lansing Mayor Andy Schor that a data center project got scuttled.

“As this property will remain empty parking lots, I ask all those who suggested housing on these parcels to provide their proposals for development into housing."

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In Michigan's Trump country, a local Democratic Party returns to life.

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Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements in west Michigan The NDA terminations came two weeks after The Detroit News reported the existence of the confidentiality agreements.

Microsoft has terminated its data center confidentiality agreements with four west Michigan communities two weeks after the @detroitnews.com reported on the NDAs.

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Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements in west Michigan The NDA terminations came two weeks after The Detroit News reported the existence of the confidentiality agreements.

Microsoft ends data center non-disclosure agreements with public officials in west Michigan

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Michigan won’t release a $1M report on Native boarding schools. Tribal leaders say it’s flawed.

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The Michigan governor's race is a toss-up. These three things could decide the outcome.

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Lawyer explains why Owosso man targeted LGBTQ community in thwarted mass-shooting plan.

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Mat Ishbia's United Wholesale Mortgage gave $6 million to Donald Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC.

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The Michigan governor's race remains a toss-up.

www.mlive.com/politics/2026/02/michigan-governors-race-now-a-three-way-tie-detroit-chamber-poll-says.html

This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage. Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.

"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."

Den Kindern ein Vorbild.

Details of DTE Energy's deal with Saline data center developer shrouded by NDA "This is very accommodating to DTE," one environmental attorney said about the nondisclosure agreements allowing DTE Energy to bypass normal scrutiny.

Dozens of Michigan Public Service Commission staff members signed a nondisclosure agreement with DTE Energy Co. that allowed them to see unredacted copies of DTE's electricity contracts with the tech giants behind a massive data center in Saline Township.

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Mario Vargas Llosa got in line behind me on the tarmac at the Cluj-Napoca airport. By chance, I'd brought one of his books to read on the flight. Told him I was enjoying it. He told me it was an edition from the '80s. That was that.

pretty stunning chart

How anyone who attended an Ivy League school could maintain a notion of the inherent superiority of students in the Ivy League is kind of beyond me.

Duggan once told Ed McNamara, who was undecided on running for Wayne County executive after a previous loss, that he needed to know whether to focus on the dog's career or McNamara's.

Mike Duggan is promising a Michigan turnaround. It starts with an end to us-vs-them politics. Before Mike Duggan, Michigan hadn’t had a viable gubernatorial candidate who wasn’t a Democrat or Republican since L. Whitney Watkins ran on the Bull Moose Party ticket in 1912.

On where things sit with Mike Duggan's independent run for governor, and the fact that he once trained a black Lab named Smokey to open the refrigerator and fetch cans of beer.

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sigh

Post a banger that's not in English.

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Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Letter From Minnesota: Finding Reverence in the Face of Brutality So far this year, in Minneapolis, there have been three homicides, two of them by ICE. Eat Street in the Whittier neighborhood, where Alex Pretti was gunned down Saturday morning, is historically t…

Part of an interesting series on the experience of being in Minneapolis right now.

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Working people pay taxes on every paycheck.

The ultrarich don’t.

The top 0.1% now hold $1 in every $6 of US wealth, protected by loopholes that let fortunes grow, untaxed, across generations.

Extreme wealth becomes political and economic power. 🧵⬇️

Michigan folks: Ypsilanti Community Schools confirm several parents taken into custody by ICE.

Not in my fuckin town.

Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man; DHS officials say he was armed A bystander video shows several agents wrestling with the man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm as protesters gathered at the scene: “Ple...

The man federal officers shot and killed this morning has been identified as 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to the Star Tribune

They say White Noise helps babies sleep, but The Names works every bit as well.