Gordon Evans

News Reporter/Producer

WMUK's Morning Edition anchor, Gordon Evans is also an accomplished reporter and interviewer. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he came to WMUK from WAAM in Ann Arbor.

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9:14 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

State House approves funding for emergency dredging

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Dredging needed because of record-low water levels in Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes
LANSING -- The state House of Representatives voted 107-3 Wednesday to provide $20.9 million for emergency dredging in 49 harbors and bays in the Great Lakes. The bill also appropriated $23 million for 76 projects paid for by the Natural Resources Trust Fund.
1:24 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

Early House committee bill does not include Medicaid expansion

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Governor Snyder favors expansion of Medicaid as allowed under Federal Affordable Care Act
  • Source: Mlive
  • | Via: Kalamazoo Gazette
LANSING, MI - Republicans who hold the majority in the Michigan House are not including Medicaid expansion in their early budget plans. Medicaid expansion was not included in a Department of Community Health budget plan advanced by a GOP-led House appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday.
1:22 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

Report finds Michigan not doing enough to protect foster children

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Report tracks the first half of last year. Progress was shown in some areas, including the number of youth waiting to be adopted
Detroit - Michigan still protects too few youth who are in the state's custody, nearly five years after a court ordered a major overhaul of its foster care system, a children's advocacy group found. Department of Human Services workers are struggling to adequately investigate some allegations of abuse or neglect, according to a report issued Wednesday by Children's Rights, a national watchdog organization.
6:37 am
Wed March 20, 2013

Wayne State, University of Michigan could lose funding over "right to work"

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Republican lawmakers trying to stop what they call end run around Michigan's new law that bars mandatory collection of union dues
More than $27 million and possibly several hundred jobs and higher tuition costs could hang on a vote this afternoon by the Wayne State University Board of Governors. If the Democrat-controlled board approves an eight-year labor contract it negotiated with the faculty union, it will set up a showdown with the Republican-controlled Legislature over the state's new right-to-work law.
6:28 am
Wed March 20, 2013

Study finds Calhoun County ranks near bottom of state in health

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Ranking considers variety of factors including rate of people dying before age 75, rates of smoking, obesity and births to teen mothers
The health of Calhoun County could use a booster shot, if a new study's numbers are accurate. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a study today that ranked each county in the nation.

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