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City snow removal paramount this winter

MARQUETTE — After a winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow on Marquette in late December, the city of Marquette went into overdrive to get snow off of roads and sidewalks. When the flakes settled, what was left were enormous snowbanks between the sidewalk and the road, in some places ...

Group touts signatures to put citizenship, voter ID question on Michigan ballot

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. LANSING — A group aiming to tighten voter ID rules and require proof of citizenship to register in Michigan says it has collected ...

ICE in Michigan: More arrests, detainees and protests

LANSING — The weekend killing of a US citizen by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota has sparked renewed calls for reform nationally and in Michigan, primarily by Democrats frustrated by Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigrant deportation tactics. Deportations surged in ...

Wisconsin Democrats announce marijuana legalization bill

In a bid to capitalize on recent bipartisan pushes to regulate the state’s hemp industry, Wisconsin Democrats have introduced a bill to fully legalize marijuana. But the effort to create legal recreational and medical programs is all but sure to fail. Republicans, who control both chambers ...