The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan (ITCMI) released its FY2025 Annual Report on August 10, 2026, and it reported that the federal government revoked more than $23 million in EPA grant funding, creating “substantial obstacles” for Tribal communities and programs across
Facts: Mother and Father divorced after Child’s birth. Their Michigan divorce decree was later registered in Nashville, Tennessee.The Tennessee trial court temporarily suspended Father’s parenting time after finding that Father had a serious alcohol problem, had engaged in witness tampering
Citizens of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan’s largest federally recognized Tribe with more than 50,000 citizens, will vote on a proposed new Constitution that would significantly restructure its Tribal government.
The Tribe’s current Constitution,
Today’s case, Schmidt v. Dexcom, Inc., 2026 WL 2244106 (E.D. Mich. Aug 2, 2026), involves a glucose monitoring device (the “G6”) and a pretty bad day for the plaintiff—both in terms of how he somehow managed to get a needle
The CDC is reporting 3,123 more cases of Cyclospora infections compared with a week ago in an outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce from a Taylor Farms growing operation in Central Mexico.The total number of patients for the outbreak now stands
I never had the chance to meet Ward Churchill. I first read him in the early 90s at Michigan in a Native Studies class taught by Estevan Rael-Galvez. Estevan assigned this book, one the featured Ward heavily:
I liked
Yesterday, on August 12, USACE granted Enbridge a Clean Water Act section 404 permit for the proposed four-mile tunnel to house Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac. The Record of Decision is here. The Corps stated its review
On July 22, 2026, Governor Whitmer signed three bipartisan bills, Senate Bills 721, 722, and 723, that expand Michigan’s brownfield and commercial redevelopment incentive programs. The new laws increase the amount of tax revenue under the Transformational Brownfield Program, make
Joshua E. Kastenberg, University of New Mexico School of Law, has published “Ford is an Anarchist” and “History is Bunk”: William Archibald Dunning and Jesse Siddall Reeves as Precedent for the First Professional Historians Testifying as Expert Witnesses in
