5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (323+ words) State regulators Thursday approved a $74.52 million gas rate hike for DTE Energy customers, which was less than half the total requested. A residential customer with typical usage of 75 hundred cubic feet of gas per month will see a 3.34% bill increase,…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (468+ words) FILE - An aerial image of Consumer Energy's J.H. Campbell Generating Complex is seen in Ottawa County, Mich., Sept. 21, 2024. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP, File) Energy Secretary Chris Wright had said the 64-year-old J.H. Campbell Generating Plant was needed to ensure reliable…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1095+ words) Meanwhile, over 4,500 units the city classifies as affordable -- nearly 16% -- sit empty. “I don’t make enough money really to afford anything,” Davis, 49, said of the few hundred dollars he earns a month. “I just keep trying to swim uphill.” The poorest people…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (539+ words) Americans’ satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the country has hit a low point, driven by a growing political divide and concerns that schools are not preparing children for college and future jobs. At the same time, dissatisfaction…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (582+ words) The one-year moratorium -- part of a broader assessment of how children in the nation’s largest school system interact with the technology -- will apply to “all software that uses student-facing generative AI” for students through eighth grade, the mayor’s office said....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (175+ words) LANSING — On August 28, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a response brief in Enbridge’s lawsuit over the Line 5 dual pipelines, which sits on the lakebed in the Straits of Mackinac and transport oil through the Great Lakes. “The Great Lakes power Michigan’s…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (492+ words) Delta County Parks Manager Heather LeDuc reports on the aftermath of a July tornado. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press) Robert Aschbacher looks over a map of Fuller Park during a meeting about storm damage there. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press) Matt Jensen at the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1123+ words) The teachers and principals watched as an instructor prompted an AI tool to “create a map of the world.” The result drew gasps of disbelief and laughter. Projected on a large screen was a map riddled with bizarre errors. Mali…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (567+ words) An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year’s killing of Charlie Kirk. The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (386+ words) The letter gave the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to issue the retraction or face a $5 billion lawsuit. The center declined. The nonprofit’s president and chief executive, Neera Tanden, said in a statement…...