Businesses and consumers across the state will join the Michigan Retailers Association next weekend in celebration of Buy Nearby Weekend. Buy Nearby is MRA’s campaign focused on keeping more retail dollars on Michigan’s Main Streets. This year marks the eleventh consecutive Buy Nearby ...

In 2020, the United States did not have election night so much as election week. Factors including a slow count of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania delayed declaring Joe Biden the winner until the Saturday after Election Day, giving President Donald Trump time to allege fraud — allegations ...

The U.S. is undergoing a demographic shift that is changing older Americans’ relation to the workplace. The average and median age of the U.S. population is rising, and the composition of the workforce with it. Individual workers are tending to remain in the workforce longer and retire ...

At some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian. October is Pedestrian Safety Month — a great opportunity to include and increase pedestrian safety messaging across all platforms. Pedestrians walking down a sidewalk next to a busy road. The Michigan Department of Transportation reminds ...

That collective scream you may have heard last week came from all those students out there who are joined at the hip with their cell phones. A state lawmaker had the audacity to introduce legislation to regulate those handy-dandy, can’t-live-without-them devices in schools, which produced ...

OK2SAY — Michigan’s student safety program that allows students to confidentially report tips on potential harm or criminal activities directed at students, school employees and schools — is marking its 10th anniversary. To encourage use of the program, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ...