4/11/2019: Taxpayers asked to support falcons, fight pigeon poop - Fixing the roads himself: Boy filling potholes in Michigan

Today's Article: Taxpayers asked to support falcons, fight pigeon poop
From: AP News
Readability Score: 12.3

As people complete their tax returns, they often have the opportunity to donate to specific causes. Massachusetts is encouraging gifts to protect endangered species by appealing to people's distaste for pigeon poop on their cars. Learn more in today's article! Today's basic article includes online questions for your students to answer! (multiple choice and short response.) If you want to see the responses, have students take a screen shot or print the Google form after they submit it.

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Today's Alternate Article: Fixing the roads himself: Boy filling potholes in Michigan
Readability Score: 6.4

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9/14/2016: Supreme Court Allows ‘Straight-Ticket’ Voting in Michigan - Politics Are Tricky but Science Is Clear: Needle Exchanges Work

Today's Article: Supreme Court Allows ‘Straight-Ticket’ Voting in Michigan
From: New York Times
Readability Score: 10.4

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to revive a Michigan law that barred straight-ticket voting.

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Today's Alternate Article: Politics Are Tricky but Science Is Clear: Needle Exchanges Work
Readability Score: 8.8

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1/26/2016: Stephen Hawking: Science Brings 'New Ways Things Can Go Wrong' - Price War Brings Gas Down to 47 Cents Per Gallon in Michigan Town

Today's Article: Stephen Hawking: Science Brings 'New Ways Things Can Go Wrong' (10.2)
From: CBS News / AP

Hawking said that increasingly, most of the threats humanity faces come from progress made in science and technology.

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Today's Alternate Article: Price War Brings Gas Down to 47 Cents Per Gallon in Michigan Town (7.4)

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12/18/12 - Michigan Law and Right to Work Economics

Today's Articles:

ABC News
December 13, 2012
Right-to-Work Law Gives Michigan Unions New Task

"Now that Michigan has become a right-to-work state, unions in this stronghold of organized labor confront a new and urgent problem: convincing members to continue paying for their services instead of taking them for free."


Wall Street Journal
December 14, 2012
'Right to Work' Economics

"By adopting a "right-to-work" law this week, Michigan is joining a group of states where wages tend to be lower, but job growth stronger, than states that don't have the law."


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