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President Joe Biden and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) are underwater with likely Michigan voters months ahead of the 2022 election, where the governor is running for reelection and the president’s failed agenda items in Washington will be put to the test with voters.

University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel has been fired for having “an inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate that the school’s Board of Regents said violates university policy.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D-MI) administration undercounted coronavirus deaths inside the state’s long-term care facilities by approximately 30 percent, a state auditor general report seen by Fox News said.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is tied with Republican gubernatorial candidate James Craig in Michigan’s race for governor, according to an internal polling memo released Thursday.

Democrat activist Huwaida Arraf, who cofounded the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM), is running for Congress in Michigan’s Tenth District, which was redrawn into a competitive battleground during the redistricting process.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) announced Wednesday she will run for re-election in Michigan’s newly created 12th Congressional District.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s (D-MI) reelection chances could be in trouble, as recent polling showed a generic Democrat is ten points behind in the polls against a generic Republican in the congressional district that she is running in.

Due to redistricting, two Michigan House Democrats in neighboring districts will go head to head in the 2022 midterm primary.

Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency shelled out up to $8.5 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims during the pandemic, per a report.  

A bird owner unexpectedly surrendered 836 parakeets during two trips in four days’ time to a Michigan animal rescue group, per a report.

A Secret Santa contractor renovated a Michigan family’s basement free of charge after a different contractor failed to do the work.

Michigan’s Farmington Public Schools (FPS) district pushed students and their families to “join a Black Lives Matter or an affiliated protest,” and “donate to bail efforts supporting people arrested for protesting against injustice” for its “21 Day Equity Challenge,” according to Young America’s Foundation (YAF).

Michigan Republicans hammered vulnerable Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) after she claimed the United States economy is “flourishing” under President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and is in the best recovery since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The prosecutor in the case against the Oxford High shooting suspect is calling for more gun control in the state of Michigan.

House and Senate Democrats who have claimed to be champions for labor unions are silent as the Kellogg Company, whose largest shareholder is the left-wing W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is set to replace about 1,400 American union workers who have been on strike since October. 

The White House could not say Friday whether President Joe Biden called the families of the victims of a high school shooting in Michigan.

A teenager in Big Rapids, Michigan, is finally home following a spinal cord injury that left the young woman paralyzed.

The Michigan Press Association and three media outlets filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in response to the Michigan redistricting commission’s refusal to release records from a meeting it had in October, as well as legal documents the commission claims are protected by “attorney-client privilege.”

Michigan Democrats have introduced gun control legislation to ban ammunition magazines larger than ten rounds in the wake of the November 30, Oxford High school shooting.

Two lawsuits seeking $100 million each have been filed against a Michigan school district, its superintendent, and others after four students were fatally shot and others wounded at Oxford High School, a lawyer announced Thursday.

Oxford High School officials may be charged for ignoring warning signs leading up to the deadly mass shooting allegedly committed by 15-year-old Ethan Crumbly, Oakland County, Michigan, prosecutor Karen McDonald told NBC.

Andrew Pollack said Oxford High School administrators Michigan should be arrested for not preventing the school shooting despite “red flags.”

Judges in Kent County, Michigan, brought multiple families together on Thursday during the county’s 25th annual Adoption Day.

Michigan’s Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Friday if the school had included resource officers in meetings with parents over concerns of violence, his office would have taken action to be sure the alleged Oxford High School shooter had no access to guns.

Republicans are seeing improved prospects in eight states’ gubernatorial contests next year, according to the Cook Political Report.

Michigan authorities finally apprehended the two parents charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Oxford high school shooting after an intense manhunt on Detroit’s east side.

A New York Times journalist Erin Marquis reportedly grew aggravated after receiving an email from Great Lakes Gun Rights then allegedly called the pro-2A organization and called them “f*cking a**holes.”

Oakland County Sheriff’s Lt. Tim Willis says the Oxford High shooting suspect used entries in a journal to express a desire to kill people.

Democrats and their surrogates in Mike Bloomberg-affiliated groups united Wednesday in calls for gun control barely 24-hours  after Michigan’s Oxford High shooting.

Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard announced Wednesday that the 15-year-old Oxford High shooting suspect has been charged as an adult. 

The sheriff overseeing the investigation into the shooting at Michigan’s Oxford High responded to a reporter’s gun control question Wednesday by stressing the need for more prosecutions of criminals who use firearms.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is asking the state legislature to allot $300 million for school coronavirus testing.

Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron expressed his sorrow over Tuesday’s shooting at a local high school that left four dead and seven more injured.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reacted to Tuesday’s Oxford High shooting by suggesting Republicans’ refusal to pass gun control sends a “silent message of endorsement” to school shooters.

The 15-year-old who allegedly attacked Michigan’s Oxford High on Tuesday used a handgun his father purchased on Black Friday 2021. 

President Joe Biden balked on Tuesday when asked by reporters if he would visit the victims and families of those affected in a school shooting in Michigan.