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CNS budget, March 22, 2024

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CNS BUDGET March 22, 2024 – Week 8

To: CNS Editors & Elaine Kulhanek

From: Eric Freedman

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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SPECIAL PACKAGE AHEAD: Next Tuesday, March 26, CNS will move a special package of stories, photos and commentary about election integrity, civics and trust in government drawing from the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy’s recent event held at Wayne State University. We will still have our regular weekly package on Friday, March 31. Here’s your file:

DEFIBRILLATORS: Pending legislation would require all public and charter schools to have cardiac emergency plans and all coaching staff to be trained to use computerized defibrillators called automated external defibrillators or AEDs. A Detroit high school basketball player died of cardiac arrest. Sponsors include lawmakers from Detroit and Wyoming.

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CNS budget, March 15, 2024

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CNS BUDGET March 15, 2024 – Week 7

To: CNS Editors & Elaine Kulhanek

From: Eric Freedman

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION AWARDS: Capital News Service correspondents and writers for our partner Great Lakes Echo wowed the judges and scored big in the 2023 Division 1 College Newspaper of the Year competition. They earned Best Writer, Best Multimedia Reporting, the top three News Columns or Review slots, the top three Feature Stories and the top four News Stories. Here’s your file:

FARM TECHNOLOGY: New precision farming technologies, including AI, are making agriculture more efficient. We hear about it from a Farm Bureau board of directors member from Portland, two MSU researchers and the director of the state Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. By Anish Topowala.

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CNS budget, March 8, 2024

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CNS BUDGET March 8, 2024 – Week 6

To: CNS Editors & Elaine Kulhanek

From: Eric Freedman

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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EDITORS: MICHIGAN JOURNALISM HALL OF FAME: The induction ceremony will take place on Sunday, April 14, at the Kellogg Center on the MSU campus. This year’s inductees are CNS Director Eric Freedman; the late Detroit News and Free Press restaurant reviewer Molly Abraham; Bridge Michigan publisher John Bebow; WXYZ-TV anchor Carolyn Clifford-Goss; former Gongwer News Service publisher Larry Lee; and WWJ auto reporter Jeff Gilbert. Click here for ticket information or contact Betsy DeSantis at the MSU School of Journalism. Here’s your file:

ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTIVES: Some lawmakers, including ones from Livonia and Holt, are again pushing legislation to allow pharmacists to sell hormonal contraceptives without a prescription. Advocates say that would expand women’s access to reproductive health care.

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CNS budget, Feb. 23, 2024

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CNS BUDGET Feb. 23, 2024 – Week 5

To: CNS Editors & Elaine Kulhanek

From: Eric Freedman

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EDITORS: MSU SPRING BREAK AHEAD: MSU will be on spring break, so there will be no CNS file on Friday, March 1. We will resume on Friday, March 8. Here’s your file:

CRIME GUNS: Dozens of Michigan businesses are on a national list of stores that sell the most guns used in crimes, highlighting what gun control advocates say is an unaddressed part of violence prevention. Many are in Metro Detroit and the Grand Rapids and Flint areas, including one in Wyoming.

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CNS budget, Feb. 16, 2024

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CNS BUDGET Feb. 16, 2024 – Week 4

To: CNS Editors & Elaine Kulhanek

From: Eric Freedman

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SMALL BUSINESS: About one-quarter of small businesses surveyed in the state use AI for tasks such as marketing, data analysis and business operations. MSU and Central Michigan experts point out ethical issues. We hear from a company in Hancock that provides services to Michigan Tech and Grand Valley State, an Ann Arbor company that helps clients reduce food waste and the Small Business Association. For news and business sections.

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CNS budget, Feb. 9, 2024

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CNS BUDGET – Week 3

February 9, 2024

To: CNS Editors

From: Eric Freedman & Elaine Kulhanek

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BIAS: The State Police has revised its anti-bias training for troopers, now called “Race and the History of Policing.” We hear from the department’s director, its diversity, equity and inclusion office and the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. By Owen McCarthy. FOR DETROIT, LANSING CITY PULSE AND ALL POINTS

w/BIAS PHOTO KREBS: Sarah Krebs is the chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer for the State Police. Credit: State Police 

w/BIAS PHOTO STEVENSON: Bob Stevenson, the executive director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. Credit: Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police.

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CNS budget, Feb. 2, 2024

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CNS BUDGET Feb. 2, 2024 – Week 2

To: CNS Editors

From: Eric Freedman & Elaine Kulhanek 

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GUARANTEED ADMISSION: Ten of Michigan’s 15 public universities now admit any in-state student graduating high school with a 3.0 or higher GPA, a change intended to make the application process easier that is already credited with an increase in applications at some campuses. The Michigan Assured Admission Pact, or MAAP is part of an effort to raise enrollments. We see the impact at Oakland and Wayne State and hear from the Michigan Association of State Universities. Opting out of the program are U-M, MSU, Grand Valley, Western and Michigan Tech.

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CNS budget, Jan. 26, 2024

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CNS BUDGET Jan. 26, 2024 – Week 1

JANUARY 26, 2024

To: CNS Editors

From: Eric Freedman and Elaine Kulhanek

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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Editors: This is our first file of the new semester with a cadre of new and returning CNS correspondents. Here’s your file:

TEACHER INCENTIVES: Signing bonuses aren’t limited to pro athletes. Some school districts, hard-pressed to find enough teachers, are paying them too. There are other new recruitment incentives and initiatives underway across the state.

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CNS Winter 2024 Environmental budget

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JANUARY 8, 2024

To: CNS Editors

From: Eric Freedman 

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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Editors: This is our traditional winter break environmental package. Our first file of the spring 2024 semester will be on Friday, Jan. 26. Here is your file:

TURTLES: It took 10 years after the calamitous 2010 spill of millions of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, but turtles relocated by the DNR and U.S. Fish & WIldlife Service have made an amazing 45-mile return to their nesting grounds. Researchers from MSU and the University of Toledo explain their discovery.

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CNS bonus budget, Dec. 15, 2023

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CNS BUDGET BONUS WEEK 

Dec. 15, 2023

To: CNS Editors

From: Eric Freedman and Judy Putnam

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For technical problems, contact CNS technical manager Eryn Ho at (616) 485-9295; hoeryn@msu.edu. 

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Editors: This is our traditional end-of-semester Bonus Week budget with still-timely stories you may not have had space for earlier in the fall. Of course, you can also use any of our archived stories and visuals. Here is your file:

RAILROAD DEATHS: Western Michigan University researchers see a need for more information about train-pedestrian and train-motor vehicle fatalities to combat a rising number of deaths nationally. They advocate mandatory audio and video cameras and giving crash investigators access to the recordings.