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Leaders of GM, Ford among objectors to voting restrictions DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, residents wear masks as they vote at the Zion St. Joe United Church of Christ on Election Day, in St. Joseph, Mich. The leaders of three-dozen major Michigan-based companies, including General Motors and Ford, announced Tuesday, April 13, 2021, their opposition to Republican-sponsored election bills that would make it harder to vote in Michigan and other states. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium via AP, File)Don Campbell/APShow MoreShow Less 2of9Reverend Kenneth Pierce, 1st VP of the Detroit Branch NAACP, and pastor at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, speaks Tuesday, April 13, 2021, during a rally to support voting rights & end voter suppression at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. The event was sponsored by the Detroit branch of the NAACP. (Matthew Dae Smith /Lansing State Journal via AP)Matt ....
Mandatory virus testing of teen athletes challenged in court DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail LANSING, Mich. (AP) A high school sports advocacy group and some parents sued Michigan on Thursday, seeking to stop a new requirement that all teen athletes be regularly tested for the coronavirus. The lawsuit, filed in the state Court of Claims, came on the eve of the mandate s Friday effective date. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the state health department announced the free, required rapid testing nearly two weeks ago as a way to help curb the spread of COVID-19 amid a climbing case rate that is now the country s highest. ....
Michigan has 5th-highest virus rate in US over past week DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In a July 28, 2020 file photo provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the state s chief medical executive, addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich. Michigan had the country s fifth-highest rate of new COVID-19 cases in the last week and is among 14 states where infections rose over the past two weeks, a trend that state health officials said is potentially tied to the increasing prevalence of a more contagious coronavirus variant. (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP, File)APShow MoreShow Less ....
Republicans consider whether to block Whitmer s health chief DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail FILE In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 file photo, provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Elizabeth Hertel, director of the state health department addresses the state. Republican senators critical of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s handling of the coronavirus pandemic are weighing whether to reject her appointee Hertel to run the state health department, which has issued orders restricting business capacity and gathering sizes to limit COVID-19 s spread. (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP)AP LANSING, Mich. (AP) Republican senators critical of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s handling of the coronavirus pandemic are weighing whether to reject her appointee to run the state health department, which has issued orders restricting business capacity and gatherings to limit COVID-19 s spread. ....