The Coalition for Property Tax Justice held a press conference last week to encourage Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree to place a moratorium on tax foreclosures for home valued at $50,000 or lower.
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PRESS HIT: The Fight to Stop Anti-Voter Trojan Horses
I wasn’t always someone who advocates for voting rights. In fact, I spent years as an eligible voter… not voting. It took until I was 25 for me to recognize that voting is an important way I can help improve my community and the lives of the people I love. It’s been exciting in recent years to see the progress Michigan has made in improving access to the ballot box and protecting our democracy. But now that hard-fought progress that Michiganders overwhelmingly approved of is under threat.
PRESS HIT: Trump emergency order will expedite permitting process for Enbridge Line 5 tunnel
MICHIGAN – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District, heeding an emergency order from President Donald Trump to expedite the review process for energy supply projects, will accelerate its permitting process for a proposed tunnel for an oil and gas pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac lake bottom.
PRESS HIT: WMed residents agree to 9% salary increases — hours before planned strike
From MLive: KALAMAZOO, MI -- Residents at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine have reached a contract agreement with the medical school-- one day before they planned to go on strike. This is the first collective bargaining agreement...
PRESS HIT: MSU Extension employees vote to form union
From WKAR: EAST LANSING, MI - Michigan State University Extension employees are forming a union. More than 70% voted to form two bargaining units. Jeremy Jubenville is a MSU Extension educator in West Michigan and helped lead the unionization efforts. While he said...
PRESS HIT: How proposed tariffs could impact Michiganders
From WILX 10: LANSING, Mich. (WILX) President of the Michigan Farmers Union, Bob Thompson, responded to President Trump’s tariffs by saying, “Donald Trump said he was going to make our grocery bills less expensive, but less than a month into his presidency and heʼs...