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Michigan News

MPSC approves UPPCO rates

By DREYMA BERONJA Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — The Michigan Public Service Commission has approved a settlement in Upper Peninsula Power Company’s rate increase request. The settlement secured a 60% reduction, low-income customer affordability funds and a fixed-term moratorium on ...

Electric vehicles: new rules mean no tax credits

By TOM KRISHER, FATIMA HUSSEIN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fewer new electric vehicles will qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit later this year, and many will get only half that, under rules proposed Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department. The rules, ...

College ends partnership over ‘David’ issue

HILLSDALE, Mich. — A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture. A ...

Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. At some point in the presentation — one of many lawmaker briefings ...

California to spend some Medicaid money on housing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At the start of 2022, Thomas Marshall weighed 311 pounds. He had been hospitalized 10 times in five years, including six surgeries. He had an open wound on his left leg that refused to heal — made worse by living in a dirty, moldy house with five other people, two ...

Michigan 1st state in decades to repeal ‘right-to-work’ law

LANSING — Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature. The state’s “right-to-work” law had ...