A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Michigan High School Athletic Association must pay $7.4 million in legal fees that could impact the group's financial viability.

"When the game is complete, the loser should not complain about the rules," U.S. District Judge Richard Alan Enslen wrote in socking the MHSAA with the bill for its decade-long fight to maintain a scheduling system that discriminated against girls in violation of federal law.

Source: The Detroit News

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Ludington State Park.

Crews of five or six inmates from the Lake County Residential Re-entry Program are giving the dunes at the park a festive look this week by “planting” hundreds of Christmas trees about a foot deep into the dunes west of the Lighthouse Road. The trees help stabilize the dunes and do it with natural materials.

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The deadline is fast approaching.

Within the next three months, Detroit must make a monumental decision regarding the 1 billion pounds of waste its residents produce each year.

To burn, or not to burn — that is the question.

LANSING -- The State of Michigan is examining a plan to sell about half of its share of the water in the Great Lakes over the next 20 years to drought-stricken areas in the Sunbelt states.

Dr. U.R. Gullabel, head of the state's Commercial Activation Restoration Project (CARP), said the plan could earn Michigan as much as $116 billion and has been sent to Gov. Jennifer Granholm as a means to solve the state's fiscal problems.

"One of our economists, Dr. Gno Whey, brought it up at a cabinet meeting a few months ago, and the governor was so delighted she couldn't stop laughing," Gullabel said. "When she told us she was all for it, we contacted Bill Richardson in New Mexico and got the ball rolling."

Story continued over at the Freep