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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023 |
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In today's newsletter, MSU students return to campus a week after a deadly mass shooting, we look at the Michigan bars that had the highest liquor sales last year and we ponder which players will make the Tigers' roster. |
Michigan State students continue to call for gun reform after a deadly mass shooting. |
| Michigan State students returned to classrooms yesterday (read more below in today's newsletter). But they also returned to protesting, with more than 1,000 students filling the lawn of Michigan’s Capitol to again demand action to confront gun violence.
Mass shooting survivors from MSU, Oxford High School and a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, also spoke up on gun control yesterday during a press conference that preceded the protest. "I’m angry ... that four children died at my high school, including my best friend, and that their lives were not worth enough to you to enact change," said Madeline Johnson, a student at Oxford High School when a shooting there in 2021 left four of her classmates dead.
The MSU police account on Twitter also provided an update on recovering victims yesterday. Another shooting victim being treated at Sparrow Hospital has been moved from critical status to serious but stable condition. |
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Handwritten notes of encouragement are displayed in the campus library as Michigan State University opens back up for the first day of classes on Monday, Feb. 20, in East Lansing, one week after three students were killed and five others injured during a mass shooting at the university. (Jake May | MLive.com) |
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| These 25 Michigan bars had the highest liquor sales in 2022. |
OK, they aren't all exactly bars: The Michigan bar with the most liquor sales in 2022 isn’t a place thought of for its alcohol. But many Michiganders have visited it – or at least have seen it on TV. The 2022 liquor sales leader was Little Caesars Arena, and it was the only place in the state that topped $1 million in alcohol sales last year. All but one in the Detroit area: It makes sense that the Detroit area would have some of the top slots for bars with the highest liquor sales, considering the area has the largest share of the state's population. But would you have guessed 24 of the top 25 are in metro Detroit? See the full list here. A look at other business news: Our latest installment of Wallet Watch looks at the $3.5 billion Ford battery plant coming to Marshall. |
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Michigan is awarded nearly $55 million for public housing improvements. |
Funds for housing: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated to nearly 2,770 public housing authorities across the country last week, including here in Michigan. Funding will be used to make upgrades in public housing for families and individuals who are low income.
The money will be distributed across the state: Nearly 30,000 people in Michigan live in public housing with about half being residents who are elderly or disabled, according to the latest HUD data. The $54.7 million award was distributed to all 107 public housing authorities in Michigan. Also regarding housing: A Texas developer is planning a 19-story apartment high-rise geared toward University of Michigan students on Ann Arbor’s Church Street. |
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I hope this is the start of a productive Tuesday for you. Remember, you can always find the latest Michigan news at MLive.com. While you're there, consider becoming an MLive subscriber.
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— Jessica Shepherd |
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