Bankole Thompson: Where were Black leaders in Whitmer's Bolden appointment?

Robert Vercruysse, a longtime Metro Detroit labor lawyer and noted negotiator, died Wednesday, Feb. 1. He was 78. "He was a fierce advocate for his clients. He had a wicked cross-examination," said Anne-Marie Welch, Mr. Vercruysse's youngest daughter who has practiced law with her father for the past seven years at the Clark Hill law firm. "He was trusted with the most challenging litigation and negotiations because he was just so good."

Approximately 102 boxes of newly retired Michigan U.S. Rep. Fred Upton’s papers from his 36-year tenure in Congress oddly turned up last month on a loading dock at Ohio State University instead of at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where they were meant to go. Congressional sources...

Michigan could soon begin to see campaign stops from would-be presidential candidates a lot earlier and more campaign spending as the spotlight on the battleground state intensifies ahead of the 2024 election. The Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to approve a reshuffled calendar for next year that moves Michigan into...

Democrats here in the Great Lakes State seem to have short memories. Now that they have majorities in both chambers of the Legislature for the first time in 40 years, along with the governorship, they intend to pay off their campaign donors by repealing right to work. Let’s recall the situation Michigan was in just over a decade ago, before Michigan banned forced union dues within its borders.

Detroit – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive Friday expanding the state’s efforts to increase the number of contracts it holds with Michigan businesses that are minority, women and veteran-owned or located in small towns and inner cities. The directive follows an initiative Whitmer first created in...

Lansing — With Democrats now in control in the state Legislature, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is bringing back two university board appointments that were blocked by Republican lawmakers last year. Whitmer announced Thursday she has again selected former state Rep. Jon Hoadley, a Democrat from Kalamazoo, to serve on...

Lansing — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Democratic leaders of the Legislature are preparing a sweeping tax relief proposal they say will reduce tax bills by more than $1 billion and include rebate checks that could be issued directly to residents. The Friday agreement focuses on a plan...

Tampa, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis has been eyeing a run for president, but he’s not waiting until 2024 to assert one of the most contested legal rights associated with that office. In multiple lawsuits, DeSantis’ lawyers have claimed that the governor wields executive privilege, a special right...

At least 30 anti-abortion activists gathered Saturday afternoon at various pharmacies in Michigan to protest the Food and Drug Administration's recent decision to allow certified pharmacies to dispense the abortion pill when prescribed by a certified prescriber. South Lyon resident Monica Miller helped organize a protest of 15 people outside...

Detroit — The CEO of a government contracting company embezzled from the firm and spent more than $10 million on pain pills, according to federal criminal cases that describe an outsized series of drug deals amid the nation's opioid crisis. The misappropriation and drug binge are detailed in federal...

Michiganians who want to comment on the National Guard's requested expansion of Camp Grayling in the northern Lower Peninsula have until Wednesday to do so. The comment period for the proposal — which would allow the National Guard to more than double its footprint in Grayling by leasing an additional 162,000 acres of state-owned property — was originally supposed to close July 8, 2022 but was extended after public outcry over the proposal.

A Commerce Township man has been charged in connection with applying for nearly $1 million worth of pandemic loans for fake businesses, including one sharing a name associated with “The Karate Kid,” federal officials said Friday. Ryan Carruthers, 42 is charged with wire fraud in a criminal complaint...

Most people mold snowmen when a big storm hits. Not Jennifer Ramirez of Madison Heights or Jamison Agnello of Harrison Township. When a storm blanketed Metro Detroit with more than seven inches of snow last week, both skipped making something traditional and took a bite out of something much bigger. Ramirez sculpted sharks in her front yard while Agnello made a giraffe.

It wasn't a bird, a plane, a player for Anaheim, California's professional baseball team, or even a clementine. It was an optical phenomenon called a halo in the skies over northern Michigan Friday. National Weather Service meteorologists at the agency's Gaylord office reported Friday a 22 degree halo was spotted...

A 75-year-old Michigan man is expected to recover after he and his utility vehicle fell through the ice on a pond Thursday, police said. First responders were called at about 1:31 p.m. Thursday to a home in Bath Township for a report that the man had fallen into the pond on his property, they said. The township is in Clinton County and near Lansing.