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Grocery Chain With 100+ Michigan Locations Admits to Price Gouging on Staples
You may have had suspicions that the price of staple grocery items has been artificially inflated, especially during the last four years. But now we're learning that one major grocery chain has admitted to price-gouging customers on items like milk and eggs. Antitrust Hearing Includes Damning Testimony. As officials with...
BEWARE! This Email Scam Is Hitting Michigan AGAIN!
Avoiding scams has become a part of our everyday lives as several scams endanger us daily. The most common of those threats are the spam calls that we all receive from numbers we don't recognize or from places we have never been, but now that those have become easier to spot and decline, scammers have pivoted to other methods that have proven to be successful.
Why is Michigan buying up farmland? New project could fight Lake Erie algae blooms
LENAWEE COUNTY, MI - The trek up the hill through the head-high grass illustrates what brought Kali Rush to the rural slice of Michigan farm country, a few miles from the Ohio border. “This,” she says, gesturing down toward a marsh, covered in verdant green algae and filled with a...
Wild mushroom classes coming to the Porcupine Mountains, 3 more state parks
ONTONAGON, MI -- This fall, expand your palate with Michigan’s natural delicacy: mushrooms. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is hosting wild mushroom classes across the state from the Porcupine Mountains in the U.P. down to Bay City State Park. Outdoor enthusiasts will instruct students how to identify seasonal...
West Michigan Zillow listings show price reductions on home prices
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — If you've skimmed Zillow recently, you may have noticed that there's a lot of homes listed for sale that have gone through some price reductions, anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000. Walter Perschbacher is the Vice President of Greenridge Realty in Grand Rapids. He explained that...
Michigan Airports Have a Feature Not Found in Any Surrounding State – Intrastate Flights
Air travel is generally the quickest and most convenient for travelling, particularly for long distance travel. But what about travelling within the state state. With needing to get to an airport an hour or two before a flight, the possibility of delay and the hurry-up-and-wait enplaning and deplaning process, if your destination is within a few hours drive, would an intrastate flight make sense?
Michigan University Nets $5M Grant to Study Energy
(TNS) — Michigan may play a key role in developing new technologies to capture carbon emissions and store the planet-warming gases deep underground. The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $5 million grant to Western Michigan University researchers to help create a roadmap for carbon capture, use, and storage within the Michigan Basin’s geologic formations. The region is believed to have capacity to permanently store 70 gigatons of carbon-dioxide in five key reservoirs – with potential for even more.
Changes at USPS Could Make Your Mail Delivery Even Slower
The United States Post Office is proposing changes, and if you live in a rural area of Michigan, mail delivery could be even slower than it is now. Although the proposed plan will potentially save the Post Office $3 billion annually, it will mean slower delivery service for customers living in rural areas and for mail that needs to travel a long distance.
As medical marijuana shrinks, Michigan mulls ‘clean merge’ with recreational
Bipartisan effort seeks to merge Michigan medical, recreational marijuana licensing into one regulatory system. Supporters say the proposal would be a ‘clean merge’ aimed at reducing regulatory hurdles, ease access for medical consumers. Change would require backing from 75% of state lawmakers to pass. Al Williams opened DaCut...
Mini Fridge Maker Announces $21.4M Expansion in Michigan
Mini fridge manufacturer Northland Corporation will invest some $21.4 million to expand operations in Greenville, Michigan. The investment will create up to 200 new jobs, and retain 116 jobs. On Tuesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) approval for the project, which will receive a $1.28 million Michigan...
West Michigan lawmakers float plans to protect critical dunes from harmful development
With sun shining on the grassy dunes behind them at Oval Beach in Saugatuck, state Reps. Rachel Hood (D-Grand Rapids) and Joey Andrews (D-St. Joseph) last week discussed two bills in the works to protect critical dunes like those behind them. Michigan is home to 74,000 acres of critical dune areas along 265 miles of […]
Hundreds show up for Corunna Car Show
CORUNNA, Mich. (WLNS) — From muscle cars to hot rods, there was a car to delight anyone on display Saturday at the 35th Annual End of Summer Corunna Car Show. The event drew over 300 entries, competing for awards including “Best in Show,” and audience choice. The event went from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. […]
Summer drownings renew calls for water safety legislation
Drownings in Michigan this summer have once again put a spotlight on water safety in a state with the nation's longest freshwater coastline and an abundance of inland lakes. In metro Detroit's Oakland County, home to a large number of beaches, an increase in drownings compared with last year has left a tragic...
How an Old Michigan Law Kept a Measure off the Ballot
Just the other day… I was walking down the street when I caught a whiff of the distinct smell of freshly fallen leaves…. I immediately had a hankering for apple cider and corn on the cob … when just as quickly, I started to feel an inherent sense of resistance to the end of summer…
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