Matt Miller
@mattmillermlive.bsky.social
Senior reporter with MLive. Lansing separatist.
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"Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant."
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant."
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Dual-enrolled high school students now make up 16 percent of the enrollment at Ferris State University and 67 percent at Alpena Community College.
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One of the fastest growing demographics at Michigan colleges is high school students
Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to take college classes for free, grew by nearly 16 percent between 2022-23 and 2023-24.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Dual-enrolled high school students now make up 16 percent of the enrollment at Ferris State University and 67 percent at Alpena Community College.
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“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a moving memorial to those who died but it continues to be a wildly unsuccessful strip club song.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a moving memorial to those who died but it continues to be a wildly unsuccessful strip club song.
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The Edmund Fitzgerald became legend when she sank 50 years ago, but she was always an icon. 🚢
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'Larger than life': How the Edmund Fitzgerald legend was forged in Metro Detroit
The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years after it sank off the coast of the Upper Peninsula's Whitefish Point on Nov. 10, 1975.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Edmund Fitzgerald became legend when she sank 50 years ago, but she was always an icon. 🚢
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A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi influencer. Some of her constituents have a problem with that.
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A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that.
Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi influencer. Some of her constituents have a problem with that.
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
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In 2023, a Detroit child, DJ, died from an asthma attack.
He grew up near industry. He died during a summer when wildfire smoke hung over Michigan.
He and others affected by pollution are among those honored in the DIA's annual Dia de Muertos ofrendas exhibit.
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He grew up near industry. He died during a summer when wildfire smoke hung over Michigan.
He and others affected by pollution are among those honored in the DIA's annual Dia de Muertos ofrendas exhibit.
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DIA's Dia de Muertos altar honors Detroit child, others killed by pollution
Three Wayne County residents are honored at a Detroit arts museum exhibit after their deaths were attributed to industrial pollution.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In 2023, a Detroit child, DJ, died from an asthma attack.
He grew up near industry. He died during a summer when wildfire smoke hung over Michigan.
He and others affected by pollution are among those honored in the DIA's annual Dia de Muertos ofrendas exhibit.
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
He grew up near industry. He died during a summer when wildfire smoke hung over Michigan.
He and others affected by pollution are among those honored in the DIA's annual Dia de Muertos ofrendas exhibit.
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Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.
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Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS
Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
22-year-old made detailed plans for a mass shooting. Police stopped him just in time.
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22-year-old made detailed plans for a mass shooting. Police stopped him just in time.
Mack Davis wanted to shoot people, he wrote in a manifesto taken by police. Muslims and Jews. Schoolchildren and supermarket shoppers. Gays and lesbians. Police stopped him before he got the chance.
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October 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
22-year-old made detailed plans for a mass shooting. Police stopped him just in time.
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Michigan church attack was one of the deadliest at a U.S. house of worship
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Michigan church attack was one of the deadliest at a U.S. house of worship
There have been more than 375 fatal attacks at U.S. houses of worship over the past 25 years. The Sept. 28 attack at a Church of Latter-Day Saints in Grand Blanc was one of the deadliest.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Michigan church attack was one of the deadliest at a U.S. house of worship
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He was the ‘class clown’ in high school. Now he’s accused of killing 4 people at a Mormon church
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He was the ‘class clown’ in high school. Now he’s accused of killing 4 people at a Mormon church
A lifelong friend says Thomas Sanford battled demons from meth addiction to religious obsession.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
He was the ‘class clown’ in high school. Now he’s accused of killing 4 people at a Mormon church
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The landfill designed to hold sediment dredged from the Detroit and Huron rivers — a small banana-shaped island at the mouth of the Huron River called Pointe Mouillee — will run out of space in four years.
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Lack of disposal space hampers dredging of toxic sediment in Detroit, Rouge rivers
The landfill designed to hold the dredged sediment — a small banana-shaped island called Pointe Mouillee — will run out of space in four years.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The landfill designed to hold sediment dredged from the Detroit and Huron rivers — a small banana-shaped island at the mouth of the Huron River called Pointe Mouillee — will run out of space in four years.
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Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
U.S. bid to keep $163 million in cryptocurrency provides glimpse into ‘pig-butchering’ scam
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U.S. bid to keep $163M in cryptocurrency provides glimpse into ‘pig-butchering’
A complaint seeking the forfeiture of $163 million in cryptocurrency provides a glimpse into a "pig butchering" scam with Michigan victims.
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September 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
U.S. bid to keep $163 million in cryptocurrency provides glimpse into ‘pig-butchering’ scam
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State watchdog says Jackson County judge hid conflicts of interest. His former law partner says there was a deal.
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State watchdog says judge hid conflicts of interest. His ex-partner says there was a deal.
A Jackson attorney says there was a deal with county prosecutors that covered potential conflicts of interest on the part of Judge Thomas Wilson. The former assistant prosecutor who's supposed to have...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
State watchdog says Jackson County judge hid conflicts of interest. His former law partner says there was a deal.
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Complaint: Jackson County judge harassed women, was drunk in public, meddled in relatives’ cases
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Complaint: Jackon County judge harassed women, was drunk in public, meddled in relatives’ cases
The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission has filed a public complaint against Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Complaint: Jackson County judge harassed women, was drunk in public, meddled in relatives’ cases
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Former cardiology chief sues Hurley Medical Center, saying he was pushed out for raising safety concerns
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Former cardiology chief sues Hurley, saying he was pushed out for raising safety concerns
A former chief of cardiology at Hurley Medical Center is suing the Flint hospital, alleging Hurley’s leadership terminated his contracts after he pushed them to address practices that put patients’ li...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Former cardiology chief sues Hurley Medical Center, saying he was pushed out for raising safety concerns
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As a religious studies major twice over, I find the cuts and proposed cuts to religious studies departments short-sighted and lamentable. It's useful to understand how people explain their place and purpose in the world and why they believe things they can never prove.
Why are so many university cuts targeting Religious Studies…? New article in CHE quoting @vox-magica.bsky.social & others = www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble
As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
As a religious studies major twice over, I find the cuts and proposed cuts to religious studies departments short-sighted and lamentable. It's useful to understand how people explain their place and purpose in the world and why they believe things they can never prove.
University of Michigan sues pharma giant AstraZeneca for $50 million over virus strains used in FluMist
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University of Michigan sues pharma giant AstraZeneca over virus strains used in FluMist
The University of Michigan has sued pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, alleging the company is still using the university's intellectual property in FluMist two years after the licensing agreement expi...
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August 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
University of Michigan sues pharma giant AstraZeneca for $50 million over virus strains used in FluMist
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U.P. woman sues Roblox and Discord, alleging their negligence put her in a predator’s path at age 11
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U.P. woman sues Roblox and Discord, alleging their negligence put her in predator’s path at age 11
An Upper Peninsula woman is suing the online gaming platform Roblox and the makers of the messaging app Discord, alleging the companies’ negligence allowed her to be groomed and ultimately sexually as...
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August 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
U.P. woman sues Roblox and Discord, alleging their negligence put her in a predator’s path at age 11
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