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CAUTION: I'm about to write a long thread about the state of home health care in Michigan right now following the upheaval of our state's system of care for catastrophically injured motorists.

Michigan legislators, take cover...
John Wicke, the 52-year-old quadriplegic man I wrote about last week, is still living at Sparrow Hospital because his home health care agency quit because the Legislature & @GovWhitmer cut their pay by 45% on July 1.

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Wicke's case manager told me this morning that MediLodge, a chain of nursing homes, declined to accept John last week.

Now she's trying to find 1 or 2 home health care agencies that will take on his case. He requires 2 aides to move him in his apartment in Corruna.

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The stress & chaos of teaching during a once-in-a-century pandemic has some Michigan teachers weighing a departure from public education.

This month in #CrainsForum, I partnered with @chalkbeatDET for a report on teacher turnover destabilizing schools.
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How teacher churn destabilizes schools, costs taxpayers & hurts Michigan's most vulnerable students

@Chalkbeat's @levin_koby & @lamarr_lemee analyzed over 1 MILLION lines of teacher workforce data to track turnover in Mich. schools.

Eye-opening results

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In this week's @crainsdetroit, we try to demystify absentee mail-in voting.
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ICYMI: Legislature OKs #COVID19 relief funds for @tcfcenter, @qlinedetroit
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SLIDESHOW: Absentee voting, ballot processing and counting: How it works, step-by-step

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Time Crunch: #Michigan's surge in absentee voting to test capacity of election workers

Clerks face a daunting task of delivering fast election results for 3 million-plus absentee ballots

My story in ⁦@crainsdetroit⁩’s monthly #CrainsForum: crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/t…
Grand Rapids firm develops service for tracking absentee ballots in the mail; Troy, Huntington Woods, Grand Rapids among 10 cities using it this fall

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5 Republican clerks to Michigan’s GOP-controlled Legislature: One more day to process absentee ballots is not enough

cc: @LeeChatfield @SenMikeShirkey

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In this month’s @crainsdetroit Forum, I look at the one of more complex hurdles to achieving education funding equity in Michigan: Higher tax school districts that got a special deal to be better-funded 27 years ago when lawmakers wrote Proposal A.

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ALERT for school boards and administrators in Michigan who have built up $2.8B in fund balances: The Legislature might be coming for it.

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Barton Malow exec Doug Maibach: Time to overhaul #Michigan's arbitrary school-funding model

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2020’s tensions revive an old debate: Should police live in communities they serve & protect?

Just 23% of Detroit’s cops live in the city.

62% of Black cops live in suburbs.

@annalise_frank⁩ and I dived deep into police residency in #CrainsForum: crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/r…
This week's report on police residency marks the return of #CrainsForum, our monthly section focused on public policy issues impacting Michigan's economy and cities.

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Detroit Justice Center senior attorney Eric Williams wrote a guest column on why most police reform measures are regurgitated and never work:

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