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It became known as "the lost decade," that dark period of the 2000s in which Michigan shed a staggering 860,000 jobs.

Granholm, a favorite of grassroots liberals and a longtime Clinton supporter, is lending her name to the organization's first small-donor fundraising push since its creation.

The last thing you want when you have made your way to the top position on your state's highest court is for a bunch of your most distinguished predecessors to start suggesting - all at once, and very publicly - that you are making a hash of the job.

The House Education Committee recently took up a bill that would make teacher job performance the primary factor in determining pay.

A WORLD OF...:This riding lawnmower was swallowed by a pit created by a failed septic system in Midland County.

President Nixon had Bob Haldeman. Gov. Milliken had his Jerry Miller. Gov. Blanchard relied on the whiz kid Bob Bowman.

Michigan teachers' performance in the classroom would play a bigger role in the amount they get in their paychecks under a proposal being debated in the Republican-controlled state House.

The last thing you want when you have made your way to the top position on your state's highest court is for a bunch of your most distinguished predecessors to start suggesting - all at once, and very publicly - that you are making a hash of the job.

Algebra II or its equivalent is required in high schools but some lawmakers want to reconsider if there are other options to the mandatory class.

After serving two Michigan governors in Cabinet posts, Ingham County Controller Mary Lannoye next month will end her 34-year career in the very office where she started.

When Debbie Dingell toyed with running for the U.S. Senate last month, she called on EMILY's List to evaluate her chances and think through a potential candidacy.

In the past two elections the hard working men and women overwhelmingly selected Republican leadership in Lansing to reverse the downward course Michigan endured during Jennifer Granholm's eight years as governor.

Fresh Dialogues recently sat down with Berkeley's Jennifer Granholm to find out about her big idea: An Amazing Race for clean energy and clean jobs.

Sterling Heights is a relatively quiet Detroit suburb home to the plant where Chrysler 200s and Dodge Avengers are built.

Saginaw City Manager Darnell Earley has, for the second time since March, been selected as a finalist in a out-of-town government administrator search.

Detroit's schools, one-third their former size from the loss of more than 100,000 students in the past decade, are leading an effort to rejuvenate the city by casting themselves as neighborhood anchors that help parents as well as pupils.

I agreed that the convoluted and confusing MBT needed to be reformed. It was put into place under Gov.

Since it was first reported that Gov. Rick Snyder had a behind the scenes committee, a skunk works as it was called, working on education reform, many concerns have been raised about how many government policy issues are being addressed by nongovernmental groups.

Politics fancies itself to be a serious business, which is probably why it's unusual to see its figureheads willing to let loose and boogie.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder says he won't lead on Proposal A or consolidating townships - but he wouldn't mind a grassroots movement.