By Ben Solis | Senior Reporter
Quoted and Noted
“I think any opportunity that we have to break that up and show stories of resistance, of helping each other within the community, of celebrating each other, the ways that our efforts to support trans people help the community at large, even beyond just trans and queer people, are really important for people to hear.”
- Aidel Hawkins, the program manager for Stand with Trans, on bringing transgender voices to the forefront during Transgender Empowerment Month.
A farmer with a large tractor spreading liquid manure on a ploughed field on an overcast spring day. | Simply Creative Photography/Getty Images
By Kyle Davidson
A ruling from the Michigan Supreme Court regarding a permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project is echoing into other aspects of the state’s environmental permitting process, as the state’s high court encouraged the Court of Appeals to take another look at a case centered on regulations for Michigan’s factory farms.
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Stand with Trans, a Michigan-based transgender rights organization, marches in the Motor City Pride parade in downtown Detroit on June 7, 2026. (Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance)
By Katherine Dailey
Oct. 1 marks the start of Transgender Empowerment Month — a series of events launched by Michigan nonprofit Stand with Trans that has grown to a national and even global audience of transgender people, their families and allies.
No Data Centers sign in Howell, Michigan | Photo by Jon King/Michigan Advance
COMMENTARY
By Anuja Rajendra
This summer, while University of Michigan leadership defended a proposed data center with Los Alamos National Laboratory, my family gathered for my late sister Rachana’s birthday at a different kind of infrastructure.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
What famed attorney came to Detroit in 1925 to defend Dr. Ossian Sweet after he was charged in the death of a man who tried to storm his house as part of a racist mob?
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in later today for the answer.
Thursday's answer: Michigan’s first state income tax went into effect on Oct 1, 1967.
Source: https://www.michigan.gov/
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