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Republicans say weak whistleblower protection laws in Michigan are stopping government employees and contractors from reporting malfeasance.
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A new Trump administration policy would take funding from crime victims' groups that don’t share information with immigration authorities. -
Courtesy/City of JacksonThe money comes from a 2021 national settlement requiring drug companies like Johnson and Johnson, CVS and Walgreens – among others – to pay billions to communities for addiction treatment and prevention.
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Fri. Aug. 22 7pm in Horace Blackman Park | Jackson Symphony Orchestra Patriotic Pops is a free fun event to mark the end of summer
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After more than six decades of support, Congress has voted to end federal funding for public media. Many of you have reached out to ask what this means for WKAR.
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Today in 1920, Detroit began the first commercial radio broadcasting with the test call sign 8MK, later becoming WWJ. It continues to broadcast today. On the same day in 1971, Oscoda, Michigan, claimed Paul Bunyan as their own, noting that the first printed story about the legendary lumberjack came from Oscoda in 1906, although other towns also claim his origin.
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The new piano competition at Michigan State University bears the name of the first Van Cliburn competition winner, MSU music professor emeritus Ralph Votapek.
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