Michigan makes historic investment in opioid and substance use response
Published: November 10, 2025
To help save lives and reduce overdose deaths, the recently passed
FY2026 state budget includes more than $131 million from the Opioid
Healing and Recovery Fund to support substance use disorder prevention,
harm reduction, treatment and recovery services.
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Michigan Judicial Council unveils comprehensive plan to improve trial court funding, justice, and access
November 10, 2025In a landmark step toward implementing the 2019 recommendations of the Trial Court Funding Commission, the Michigan Judicial Council (MJC) on Thursday, November 6, released a concept paper entitled, “Alternative Funding for Trial Courts: Implementation Recommendations,” outlining a bold new blueprint for funding Michigan’s courts.
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Brownfield returns to lead law firm’s trusts, estates practice group
November 10, 2025After serving as vice president and general counsel of a well-known public charity serving southeast Michigan, attorney Laura L. Brownfield recently rejoined Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and most accomplished law firms.
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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot and the Mariners’ Church of Detroit
November 10, 2025November 10, 1975. It is 50 years since the “gales of November came early” and the “pride of the American side” sank in the “big lake they call Gitche Gumee” carrying a “load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more” than the “Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty.”
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- Michigan makes historic investment in opioid and substance use response
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