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LANSING -- The collapse of a Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis last week should alert Michigan leaders to needed road and bridge repairs, backer...

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If you want safer bridges here in Michigan, be prepared to pay for it. Transportation officials came together calling local bridges a threat to public...

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It's no secret Michigan roads and bridges have seen better days. In fact, according to the lobbying group the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportati...

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PRESS RELEASEThe Minnesota bridge collapse should serve as a wake-up call to state lawmakers in Lansing to fix the state’s deteriorating roads and b...

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WHO: Mike Nystrom, Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association Rich Studley, Michigan Chamber of Commerce Vicki Barnett, Mayor of Farmington ...

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A Lansing State Journal editorialThe collapse of a bridge in Minnesota sent state officials in Michigan, and elsewhere, scurrying to re-check similar ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Minneapolis bridge disaster that suddenly is the symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure could tip the scales in favor...

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In the past two years, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota twice vetoed legislation to raise the state's gas tax to pay for transportation needs.Now, with ...

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State, local spans need workIf the collapse of the Minneapolis' I-35W bridge increases your anxiety whenever you cross one of Michigan's bridges, don'...

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As a young reporter in Grand Rapids, I often pulled a short straw and was assigned to do stories about annual studies of the region's “infrastructur...

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