Hope O'Dell is a reporter who seeks to show Michiganders how we got to where we are today. Their experience includes working at FRONTLINE PBS and reporting on city government for the State News.
A package of bipartisan legislation signed last week by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer aims to increase parents’ access to child care and cut through some of the red tape that providers have been forced to navigate while nearly half of all Michigan families live in a child care desert.
NEED TO KNOW: There are currently no confirmed cases of monkeypox in Michigan. The disease is contracted through skin-to-skin contact with an infected person. If you get monkeybox, your illness is not likely to become severe. MICHIGAN — Monkeypox doesn’t look pretty, but the virus isn’t severe – that’s the first thing to know. And...