Kyle Davidson

Stepping on stage at Vantage Plastics in Bay City on Friday, Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler forecasted a bright future for American manufacturing under President Donald Trump while holding firm against criticism of Trump’s trade policies.  Vances’s visit to the Great Lakes State comes as U.S. companies are bracing […]

With Elizabeth Clement, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, set to step down no later than April 30, members of the court have named Justice Megan K. Cavanagh as her successor.  In a statement Thursday, Cavanagh said her colleagues had unanimously elected her as the next chief justice upon Clement’s departure in order to […]

One week after one of his House colleagues introduced a resolution calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its landmark ruling ending bans on same-sex marriage, state Rep. Jason Morgan (D-Ann Arbor) has introduced a effort of his own aiming to eliminate Michigan’s ban on gay marriage once and for all.  On March 5, […]

Since President Donald Trump’s election on Nov. 7, more than 42,000 clean energy and climate jobs across the nation have been lost or stalled according to a new analysis from the communications firm Climate Power.  Focused on building support for climate action, Climate Power has issued several reports detailing the impacts of President Joe Biden’s […]

Earlier this week, Michigan Technological University joined Michigan’s leading public research universities as a member of the University Research Corridor.  The University Research Corridor, also known as the URC, was founded in 2006 and brings the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and now Michigan Tech together in a partnership intended to […]

Hiring concerns. Payroll issues. Strained budgets. Anxiety over lost contracts and imminent layoffs.  Looking back on the weeks since President Donald Trump first sought to halt federal grant and loan spending, Michigan nonprofits shared their ongoing concerns with the Senate Oversight Committee on Wednesday, warning that any continued issues in accessing government funding could bring […]

In its first meeting of the new legislative session, members of the House Energy Committee took testimony Tuesday morning on a resurrected package of bills aimed at expanding research, development and production of hydrogen and nuclear power. The committee welcomed input from researchers and representatives from energy utilities, nuclear plants, colleges and labor groups to […]

The University of Michigan has begun preparing for potential budget cuts following an announcement from the Social Security Administration that it would be ending its cooperative agreements supporting the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium.  University of Michigan is one of the six institutions that make up the Consortium, which conducts policy research on Social Security’s […]

U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) and U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet) reintroduced bills in the U.S. House and Senate in hopes of resolving longstanding land claims with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community.  Under treaties signed in 1842 and 1854, the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior ceded land to the U.S. […]

The Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday moved forward on a set of bills to block state lawmakers and their staff from signing nondisclosure agreements based on information they obtained through their official  capacity after years of political tension over economic development deals and severance packages.  House Bills 4052 and 4053, introduced by state Reps. […]