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Hope O’Dell is from Midland, Michigan, and came to Michigan State University in 2018, where she majored in journalism and Social Relations & Policy. Her journalistic interests include investigative and political reporting. In addition to the Spartan Newsroom, her reporting has appeared in the Red Cedar Log, the Grand Haven Tribune and the Midland Daily News.
Supporters of President Donald Trump, who have held rallies to protest the outcome of the November election, say there are false impressions of their motives. Elections officials and critics of their efforts, however, say they’re spreading false information.
Environmental advocates are pushing local governments to research greenhouse gas levels and identify sources as an important step in reducing the impacts of climate change.
As the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccination program launches across the country today, Eaton and Ingham County health officials say they have structures in place to vaccinate health care workers and eventually the general public.
Ingham County’s 30th Circuit Court outfitted four of its general division courtrooms to hold socially distanced jury trials, expanding the jury box and increasing technology in each room.
In every presidential election, there are always claims that third-party voters are the reason one major-party candidate wins over the other. As the country goes through another presidential election, members of Michigan’s third parties said the real problem is that neither major party makes their side appealing enough to draw in third-party voters.
Michigan voters in November will be asked whether to amend the state constitution to require government and law enforcement officials have a search warrant to access a person’s electronic data or electronic communications.