Federal officials approved a key permit on Wednesday to allow for the construction of Enbridge Inc.’s 3.6-mile tunnel to replace the Line 5 pipeline under the Straights of Mackinac.

Have you ever noticed that there’s always a Michigan connection in nearly every major story? Or that when you go on vacation, you always seem to meet other people from Michigan? Whether it’s some sort of statistical bias of some kind or not, it feels right, right?