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MDHHS launches tool for Healthy Michigan Plan beneficiaries

LANSING – As part of efforts to prepare Michigan residents for federally required Medicaid work requirements that begin Jan. 1, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new tool to help assist Healthy Michigan Plan enrollees with these new conditions. The Michigan Work and Exemptions Screening Tool is designed to guide beneficiaries through the requirements they need to meet to maintain health care coverage. MI WEST asks a series of questions to help identify whether someone may qualify for an exemption, is already meeting work requirements or may need to ...

What to expect in Michigan on Election Day on Tuesday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Michigan are deciding a long list of contests that could swing the balance of power in Washington as well as in the state capitol in Lansing. Michigan continues to be one of the nation’s most competitive electoral battlegrounds, with fiercely contested ...

IM awarded $4,000 tree planting grant

Iron Mountain is among more than two dozen communities and organizations awarded tree planting grants from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, DTE Energy Foundation and ReLeaf Michigan. The recipients will share in $98,400 in grant funding and technical assistance to expand tree ...

Restoration efforts aim to protect UP’s ‘Narnia Trail’

LANSING – A popular nature trail in the Upper Peninsula has been deteriorating, according to the Michigan Nature Conservancy. This trail was originally called the Bush Bay Trail, but it was nicknamed the “Narnia Trail” after it was popularized on social media, referring to the book ...

Four vie for two seats on IM’s school board

IRON MOUNTAIN — Iron Mountain has the only contested school board race in Dickinson County on Tuesday. Four candidates are on the ballot for two four-year Iron Mountain School Board terms: Jay Gibbs, Eli Ward and incumbents Shari Picucci-White and Juan Saldana. Some basic information on their candidacy — Jay Gibbs Background: Gibbs, 35, stated he is a 2009 Iron Mountain High School graduate, a husband and parent of two young Mountaineers. He also is staff representative and organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers. He attends Bay College and will be ...

Milwaukee celebrates Brewers’ title win

Buses of Milwaukee Brewers players move through downtown Milwaukee on Friday as the city celebrates the team’s first World Series title, won Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Rays. The parade at one point passed in front of a mural of longtime Brewers announcer, the late Bob Uecker. It ...