Upstate New York is one of the regions where the emergence of hydrofracking technology—the use of chemicals to maximize the extraction of natural gas deposits from vertical and, due to their potential environmental impact, increasingly controversial...

Shobita Parthasarathy's book on the development and implications of gene testing and patenting has been re-released in paperback by The MIT Press.The book, Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology and the Comparative Politics of Health...

Local governments who saw their funding level from the state decrease under Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's Economic Vitality Incentive Program in 2011 sometimes regained portions of that funding by enhancing accountability tools. The latest...

University of Michigan ecology graduate student Jasmine Crumsey joined nearly 30 other scientists from across the country in Washington, DC, this week to brief congressional staff members about climate change research.Crumsey, a doctoral student in...

Sheldon Danziger, director of the National Poverty Center and professor of public policy, commented on the strength of programs for the very poor following controversial remarks by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Danziger told USA...

President Obama's message in the State of the Union in support of shale gas drilling likely found a receptive audience in parts of Pennsylvania—a state considered essential to his reelection effort in 2012, according to an article in the Pittsburgh...

Helen Levy spoke with Michigan Radio to discuss the health insurance exchanges currently being set up in Michigan under the Affordable Care Act."The health insurance exchanges are part of the strategy for expanding coverage to the uninsured," said...

The latest Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), published Wednesday by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), was detailed in an Associated Press story that was published in a number of papers, including the Chicago Tribune.The...

Only a small minority of local officials in Michigan believe that major reforms in the way they receive state funding that require adoption of "dashboard" reports will be very effective in improving the overall performance of their governments.The...

Professor Barry Rabe was quoted by ClimateWire on President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would extend from Canada to Texas. Proponents of the controversial proposal say the pipeline would create thousands of jobs,...