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Trump EPA chief to Congress: Cut my funding
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler wants Congress to deeply cut funding for his own agency in the next fiscal year. The Trump administration this month asked Congress to slash the EPA’s annual budget by about $2.4 billion for Fiscal Year 2021— that’s a 26% cut from the […]
Corley gets second chance to clear name after metro Detroit shooting
In Akira Kurosawa’s famous 1950 film Rashomon, a samurai is murdered in the forest. An unsuspecting woodcutter discovers his body — the samurai’s hands frozen mid-air like claws clutching a final moment. What follows is familiar: Witnesses are brought forth. A court case begins. But the people who saw what happened in the forest that […]
At $40M, Michigan’s 2018 Senate race didn’t crack top 10 nationwide
The 2018 battle between U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and Republican businessman John James cost a pretty penny — $40 million to be exact. But the race didn’t even break into the top 10 most expensive races across the country, the nonprofit Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN) reported on Thursday. “Michigan’s U.S. Senate race was […]
DeVos family doles out $11 million in 2018 election
West Michigan’s DeVos family again stands as the state’s most generous clan when it comes to political giving. That’s according to a new report published Thursday by the nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN) that tracks money in politics. The report was based on publicly available filings with the state’s Secretary of State and other […]