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Michigan has made strong progress in protecting voters’ rights and access to the ballot box in recent years, especially compared to other states, advocates say. However, state lawmakers and national voting rights advocates aren’t becoming complacent, as they’re continuing to push for solutions to fill gaps in voter protections. 

Survivors say the Mel Tucker story emerging at Michigan State University – a place where school leadership failed to respond to complaints about Nassar beginning as early as 1997 – was yet another example of “institutional failure.”

The Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) is active as of Wednesday, with the goal of preventing survivors of different forms of violence from being found by their abusers using public records.

After what Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called “repeated warnings and demands for action” from the state, Nessel announced Monday she is suing the Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority over its alleged failure to address the airport’s role in contaminating nearby drinking water with what are known as “forever chemicals.”

Michigan State University updated its weapons policy Friday to ban concealed carry on campus. The change comes in the first days of the fall semester following the deadly Feb. 13 shooting on the university’s East Lansing campus, during which three students were killed.

While right-wing groups like Moms for Liberty have emerged as a potent political force in the latest chapter of the decades-old “parental rights” movement, parents of LGBTQ+ children and children of color say their rights are being marginalized even further and hope to spark a wake-up call that the nation’s public education system is being…

Michigan State University’s Spartan Stadium will have walk-through metal detectors at the entrances in time for the next game on Saturday.

From immigrant rights’ groups and affordable housing advocates in Detroit to students in Ann Arbor and community organizers in Lansing, there’s a phrase that is said time and again when talking about housing costs: “The rent is too high.”

BY ANNA GUSTAFSON, MICHIGAN ADVANCE MICHIGAN—Following Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “What’s Next” address on Wednesday, advocates praised the Democrat’s call for paid family leave, increasing access to abortion care, boosting election security, and codifying measures in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), among other initiatives – but called on the state’s elected officials to do more to…

After Michigan voters resoundingly passed Proposition 3 in the November 2022 election, enshrining the right to abortion and other reproductive health care in the state constitution, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is slated on Wednesday to champion soon-to-be-introduced legislation that would repeal laws restricting Michiganders’ access to abortion.