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Michigan DNR assigns 15 new conservation officers after graduation
Morning Sun - Michigan
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July 11, 2025
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer Training Academy hosted graduation Thursday at the Ralph A. MacMullan Center in Roscommon, welcoming 15 officers into the ranks of some of the most highly trained law enforcement...
Hospital mergers have dropped in the first half of the year
Chief Healthcare Executive
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July 11, 2025
Fewer hospital mergers and acquisitions are taking place this year. There were only eight reported hospital deals in the second quarter of the year, according to data released Thursday by Kaufman Hall, the healthcare consulting firm. It represents...
Detroit Zoo announces birth of baby chimpanzee
CBS 62 Detroit - Michigan
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By Brooklyn Lewis July 11, 2025 / 8:25 AM EDT / CBS Detroit NEXT Weather Alert Day today. 7/11/2025 NEXT Weather Alert Day today. 7/11/2025 02:20 The Detroit Zoo has announced the birth of a baby chimpanzee. The zoo's 34-year-old chimp, Nyani,...
Michigan Rep voices concern over Singaporean ownership of Upper Peninsula land
UP Gazette - Michigan
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July 10, 2025
Karl Bohnak, Michigan State Representative for 109th District | Michigan House RepublicansKarl Bohnak, Michigan State Representative for 109th District | Michigan House Republicans State Representative Karl Bohnak has expressed significant...
Detroit teens describe safety fears in school, at home, and on the street
Chalkbeat
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. This story was published as part of Next City’s Detroit News Hub, a reporting project funded by the Kresge Foundation....
Michigan $1 coin debuted this year to celebrate auto assembly line
Detroit Free Press - Michigan
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The U.S. Mint's American Innovation $1 Coin program features the ingenuity of the country. A new $1 coin for Michigan celebrates the auto assembly line as a development that transformed manufacturing, American culture and economic life. A new $1...
Michigan's Medicaid program faces $15B hit from 'big beautiful bill'
The Detroit News - Michigan
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President Donald Trump's landmark tax and spending bill signed last week threatens to cost Michigan hospitals and doctors $15 billion over the next 10 years and hit rural hospitals the hardest, the state's Department of Health and Human Services...
Michigan House passes GOP bill to ban artificial additives in school meals by 2028
The Arab American News
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July 11, 2025
Foods with synthetic colors would be off the menu in Michigan schools under a new bill. - File photo LANSING – The Republican-majority Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban several artificial food additives and dyes...
Michigan district agrees to reform seclusion and restraint policies
K-12 Dive
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July 11, 2025
Dive Brief: Michigan's Montcalm Area Intermediate School District is ending the practice of secluding students, reforming its restraint policies and making other improvements to special education services, according to an agreement between the...
UPDATED: Downtown Boxing Gym youth visit Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Alpena News Online - Michigan
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News Photo by Kayla Wikaryasz Students from the Detroit Boxing Club (DBC) are seen participating in a Thursday morning glass bottom boat tour to view shipwrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. After the tour, DBC students were headed...
As measles, whooping cough cases surge in Michigan, state health officials urge vaccinations
The Detroit News - Michigan
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Michigan health officials and doctors on Wednesday again urged parents to keep their children up to date on routine immunizations as diseases like measles and whooping cough surge in the state. Eighteen cases of measles have been detected in...
Detroit Zoo welcomes new baby chimpanzee on Fourth of July
WXYZ - Michigan
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July 11, 2025
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (WXYZ) — The Detroit Zoo has a new addition: a baby chimpanzee. The zoo says Nyani, a 34-year-old chimpanzee, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on July 4. This is Nyani’s first baby. The Detroit Zoo A zoo representative says the...
Detroit Evening Report: Detroit moms invited to share birth stories; Hamtramck seeking youth council members + more
WDET - Michigan
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July 10, 2025
Tonight on The Detroit Evening Report, we cover a storytelling event at a Detroit birthing center, summer food preservation classes from MSU Extension and more. Subscribe to the Detroit Evening Report on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or...
Medical professionals speak with Rep. McDonald Rivet on Medicaid cuts potential impact
WNEM - Michigan
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July 10, 2025
Mid. MICHIGAN (WNEM) — Congresswoman Kristen McDonald Rivet made a stop in mid-Michigan to discuss President Donald Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ that was signed into law. McDonald Rivet said it is the ‘big ugly bill’ and the Medicaid cuts will...
Michigan public mental health care system to see funding change
Upper Michigan´s Source
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July 10, 2025
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (WLUC) - Dickinson County residents packed into the LiUNA meeting hall Wednesday to learn about potential changes to how public mental health services get funding. In February, the Michigan Department of Health and Human...
Michigan Nursing Homes to Pay $4.5M Settlement Over Substandard Care Allegations
Insurance Journal
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July 10, 2025
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations that they accepted...
House passes bill 'Making Michigan Schools Healthier'
The Center Square
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July 9, 2025
(The Center Square) – A bill has passed the Michigan House which would prohibit food distributors from providing schools foods with certain ingredients, including some food dyes and other additives. House Bill 4369 passed with broad Republican...
Healthy Rides in Flint offering rides to non emergency medical appointments
Mid-Michigan Now
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FLINT, Mich.— Starting July 14th, Healthy Rides will have three vehicles that will pick people up anywhere in Genesee County, drop them off at their appointment, and take them back home. The business held a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 10th....
Michigan parents says their son with down syndrome deserves care, not cuts
The Gander - Michigan
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July 10, 2025
WATCH: Taylor and Kyle Johnson say Medicaid is the reason their 6-year-old son George is healthy and thriving. But now President Donald Trump’s budget cuts—backed by US Rep. John James (R-Michigan)—could take that care away from thousands of...
Michigan Congresswoman say Medicaid cuts will raise health care costs for all
Mid-Michigan Now
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FLINT, Mich. - President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” includes cutting Medicaid spending by nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years. The bill, signed into law early this month, also requires able-bodied adults to complete 80 hours of community...