Claire Keenan-Kurgan

High gas prices have some in the tourism industry worried that summer vacationers will choose to stay home this year. But it’s complicated up north, where high travel costs nationwide could actually drive more visitors to northern Michigan—visitors who would normally look to travel farther away.

Michigan has tried raises, bonuses, and prison safety initiatives, but nothing has moved the needle on corrections officers vacancies. No state has found a lasting solution.

Detainees at North Lake Processing Facility, the 1,800-bed immigration detention center in Baldwin, started a hunger strike Monday. By Wednesday morning, there were reports that many had stopped.

Michigan has been a member of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact since 2018. But with the state's membership set to expire on March 28, some 8,000 doctors could lose their ability to practice here — unless Lansing takes action.

They were there to evaluate conditions at the facility and make inquiries into the death of a 56-year-old man in detention there in December.

From the outside, US commercial shipping may look like an industry past its prime. The American fleet, called the US Merchant Marine, comprised 16% of the global commercial fleet in 1960. Now, it makes up less than half of a percent of commercial ships worldwide.

The 45th president was delayed leaving Texas because of a taped interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. Some of the crowd in Traverse City left before Trump arrived.