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Mike Rogers raises cash with ex-lawmaker who said ‘we can’t make an African American white’

If Mike Rogers wanted to distance his Senate campaign from the racism and Islamophobia surrounding the race, holding a fundraiser at the home of a former state lawmaker who once said “we can’t make an African American white” was a strange way to go about it.

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John James’ running mate says he would cut Medicaid and food assistance

Jay DeBoyer, the Republican nominee for Michigan lieutenant governor, said he would personally support cutting Medicaid and food assistance in a speech just five days after John James announced him as his running mate, according to audio obtained by Metro Times.

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Lake Orion schools sued after bus aide assaulted 12-year-old student with autism

A Lake Orion family is suing the local school district after a former bus aide was convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old student with autism, alleging school officials failed to properly train transportation staff to recognize and respond to the boy’s disability-related behaviors.

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Bill Huizenga took campaign donations after company pursued deal with his businesses

U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga accepted campaign donations from a West Michigan gravel company and its executives after the company struck a potentially lucrative deal with businesses he co-owned, according to records reviewed by Metro Times.

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Mike Rogers weakened housing rules while his family was in the building business

Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers is pitching deregulation as a path to cheaper housing decades after pushing measures that weakened building safeguards and energy-efficiency standards while his family was in the construction business.

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Michigan tribes say ‘flawed’ federal review of Line 5 project violates treaty rights

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a key permit for a plan to update an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline crossing the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, waterways that tribal nations say are central to their ways of life.

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Mike Rogers’ wife appears to join the anti-Muslim fear campaign ahead of Dearborn hate rally

An Instagram account that appears to belong to the wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers recently reposted a video portraying Muslims as resistant to assimilation and suggesting many view terrorism as a legitimate form of resistance.

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