2015 in Michigan
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Events from the year 2015 in Michigan.
Top stories of 2015 included:
- The Flint water crisis, including a declaration of emergency by Flint's mayor on December 15 and the resignation of MDEQ Director Dan Wyant on December 29
- The emergence of Detroit from the Detroit bankruptcy
- The conviction of Bob Bashara in the Death of Jane Bashara
- The trial of Charles Pugh for having sex with a minor
- The role of two Michigan nurses in the June 24 Supreme Court decision (Obergefell v. Hodges) legalizing gay marriage
- The extramarital affair (and use of taxpayer funds to cover it up) between two freshmen Tea Party legislators (Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat)
- The legal battle by Richard Wershe Jr., aka "White Boy Rick", to win his freedom
- Efforts to eradicate the New Zealand mud snail from Michigan waterways.