The Grand Rapids Public Library in downtown Grand Rapids

Michigan libraries seek to stock opioid overdose meds

Opioid overdoses have increased dramatically in America over the last two decades. A pair of bills moving through the Michigan Legislature would allow librarians to store and administer opioid overdose antidotes with legal immunity, an option many are eager to have.

New climate study matches cities to their future selves

Editors: This story could be packaged with the story slugged CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS. Also, it can be used with the map that includes the city closest to you: CCMAP GRAND RAPIDS, CCMAP HOLLAND, CCMAP LANSING, CCMAP SAGINAW OR CCMAP TRAVERSE CITY. And this image: CC GUM
By ANDREW BLOK
LANSING — Perhaps the hostile climate of a University of Michigan and Ohio State University football game will never change. But the actual climate of each team’s hometown will, according to a recent study in Nature Communications that matches a city’s 2080 climate to its modern equivalent. In fact, it predicts that Ann Arbor’s climate will warm to that of U-M’s arch rivals in present-day Columbus.