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Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops
By Rebecca Kheel On May 13, 2024 A key House panel is endorsing a 4.5% across-the-board pay raise for service members on top of a 15% raise for junior enlisted troops in a must-pass defense policy bill that was released Monday. The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense…
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‘Degree Forward’ is Making College More Accessible for Detroiters
By Micah Walker, BridgeDetroit | April 30, 2024 Andrew Linton’s college journey has been more than 10 years in the making. After high school, the native Detroiter went off to Virginia to attend Hampton University, but left school due to a family emergency. Linton then spent time working in Washington D.C. before he returned to Detroit in 2021…
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AP African American Studies Connects Michigan Students to Their Own History While They Make it
By Hannah Dellinger | April 29, 2024 As a crackling recording of Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech resonated in the background, eight students took their seats in a classroom at East Kentwood High School. They carried themselves with purpose. The seniors were not only there to learn history. They showed up to make it. The…
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Carroll ISD to Challenge Title IX Changes Protecting LGBTQ+ Students
KERA | By Juan Salinas II Published May 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM CDT Carroll ISD plans to challenge the Biden administration’s recent changes to Title IX that extend protections to LGBTQ+ students. The Carroll school board voted unanimously Wednesday night to “proceed with litigation against all necessary parties related to proposed changes to Title 9 and…
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More People in States Like Texas are Using Telehealth to Access Abortion, Researchers Say
KERA | By Bekah Morr Published May 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM CDT More pregnant people are turning to telehealth for abortion care than ever before, according to a group of abortion researchers — with nearly half coming from states like Texas that have severely restricted or entirely banned the procedure. According to research from the Society…
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Ohio Doctors are Watching the U.S. Supreme Court on a Law Requiring Emergency Care and Abortion
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News BureauPosted on: Thursday, April 25, 2024 COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Doctors in Ohio are closely watching a U.S. Supreme Court case involving abortion and a federal law that requires hospitals that receive federal money to provide treatment in emergency rooms. It’s the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). Congress passed…
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Another Legal Challenge Filed Over Ohio’s Abortion Limits Still in Place After November
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News BureauPosted on: Saturday, May 11, 2024 COLUMBUS, Ohio (Ohio Statehouse News Bureau) – A new legal argument has been filed against the state of Ohio over its ban on prescribing abortion-inducing drugs via telehealth. The filing is an amendment to an already existing lawsuit against that 2021 law. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU…
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Sheryl Lee Ralph and Kamala Harris Are Reuniting for a Cause Near to Both of Their Hearts (Exclusive)
Story by Kyler Alvord 5.5.2024 The ‘Abbott Elementary’ actress has crossed paths with the vice president multiple times, even joining her on a trip to Ghana last year Vice President Kamala Harris will team up with actress Sheryl Lee Ralph during an official campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, May 8, to fire voters up about the ongoing threats…
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For More Than 25 Years, Betty Folliard Has Pushed Minnesota to Adopt the Equal Rights Amendment
Regina Medina May 14, 2024 A few days before a crucial vote on equal rights amendment legislation, former DFL state representative Betty Folliard was out and about at the Capitol. She and her fellow ERA Minnesota volunteers stood near the Senate Chamber’s entrance carrying ERA signs. “Yes on ERA!” and “ERA for Mother’s Day.” The…
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