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In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies
PORT AUSTIN, Mich. — Deep in the thumb of Michigan’s mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula, Republican election officials are outcasts in their rural communities. Michigan cities already were familiar with the consequences of election conspiracy theories. In 2020, Republicans flooded Detroit’s ballot counting center looking for fraud. Democratic and Republican election officials faced an onslaught of threats. […]
Dollar General to pay $12 million in fines over worker safety issues
Dollar General has agreed to pay $12 million in a settlement with the federal government over workplace safety. The ubiquitous retail chain, with 19,000 locations including more than 700 in Michigan, agreed to the settlement last month with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It comes after Dollar General had been cited repeatedly for unsafe working conditions and was deemed a “severe violator” by the federal agency.
Billboards Are Ruining Michigan And It’s Time To Ban Them
Growing up in Grand Rapids, we're not strangers to billboards shoved in our faces every couple of feet going along US-131. As of 2023, there are an estimated 450 billboards in Grand Rapids alone. Then, the billboards space out and you can appreciate Pure Michigan. But Michigan has an outrageous...
Pressure is on to expand recreation on wildlife lands. How will Michigan respond?
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI - Rob Allen sees untapped promise in the natural area larger than the nation’s capital that envelops his home in southwest Michigan. For more than 25 years, the retired family physician has hunted, fished, snowshoed, skied and biked the more than 50,000 acres of public oak and pine forest and grassland, less than an hour’s drive from Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids.
Michigan suspends child care center’s license after state found 65 violations
LANSING, MI - A Michigan child care center with a documented history of problems is no longer operating after the state ordered it to shut down and suspended its license. The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential Licensing Bureau issued a notice Aug. 22 that it plans revoke the license of Tiny Tators Childcare LLC, 1036 Bell Road in Niles, after investigators found the center “failed to provide appropriate care and supervision of children at all times and used prohibited means of discipline when caring for children.”
Manhunt For Michigan Fugitives: U.S. Marshals Offer $25,000 Reward
Get involved in the hunt for two Michigan fugitives on the U.S. Marshals Most Wanted list. Help bring these dangerous criminals to justice!. There is currently a $25,000 reward for a Grand Rapids man and a Melvindale, Michigan woman who is wanted for horrific Michigan murders. Trigger Warning: this article details graphic violence.
MI Dems finalize ’24 ticket, fire up for November
Michigan Democrats held their nominating convention on Saturday in Lansing, where delegates finalized the party’s ticket for the November ballot. The state convention ratified its slate of presidential electors following the Democratic National Convention that formally nominated Vice President Kamala Harris for president. Some delegates traveled directly from the...
Roahrig Sweeps 500 Tour Weekend in Michigan
MARNE, MI (August 24, 2024) — MARNE, MI (August 24, 2024) — Tyler Roahrig completed a sweep of the 500 Sprint Car Series two-night tour of Michigan by winning the feature event Saturday night at Berlin Raceway. Roahrig backed up his victory Friday at Kalamazoo Speedway by passing...
Karamo ejected from convention as divisions persist in Michigan Republican Party
FLINT — Michigan Republicans activists are united behind former President Donald Trump, but other strong divisions persist, a Saturday state party convention in Flint made clear. The party selected its two candidates for the Michigan Supreme Court early Saturday evening, but voting and counting continued for university boards and the State Board of...
Michigan DNR Approves Electric Bikes On State Trails
The use of electric bikes is going up every day in Michigan- you've probably seen people ripping around town at a high speed on these motorized bicycles. So naturally in a move that reflects the rising popularity of electric bikes, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has updated its rules to allow certain e-bikes on state-owned trails.
Donald Trump to visit Michigan again on Thursday. This time, it's Potterville
Michigan's importance to the Trump campaign was reinforced Saturday when former President Donald Trump announced he will make his eighth visit to Michigan this year, scheduling an event in Eaton County Thursday. Trump, who is already scheduled to visit Detroit on Monday to address a conference of the National Guard Association of the...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem joins Tudor Dixon in Michigan to talk election stakes
Republicans need to have better conversations in their communities if they want to see former President Donald Trump in the White House again, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and GOP former Michigan gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon said Friday evening at a town hall in Saint Clair Shores. Following the Thursday conclusion of the Democratic National […]
Stabenow keeps sights set on new farm bill before retiring
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow said during an appearance at the CNN-Politico Grill outside the Democratic National Convention on Thursday that she remains hopeful of passing one more farm bill before her term ends at the end of the year, adding another to a record-breaking streak of getting the bills passed. “We’ve always been able to […]
Pritzker says Trump suggested nets to stop Asian carp invasion of Great Lakes
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a Michigan Democratic Party delegation breakfast on day four of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 22, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance) Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Thursday that former President Donald Trump suggested using nets to stop Asian carp...
Racers used modified snowmobiles on Lake Linden
LAKE LINDEN, Mich. (WLUC) - Racers used snowmobiles to compete on Lake Linden Sunday at the Lake Linden campgrounds. It was the 5th annual Jeff Moyle Memorial Watercross event. Watercross racer James Marietta says the sport disappeared in the 90s. “There’s enough of us doing it, and the support of...
There’s an Accurate but Disturbingly Graphic Warning Sign for Bicyclists in Northern Michigan
There's an unusual and potentially disturbing road sign for bicyclists in Northern Michigan. In the Upper Peninsula city of Baraga there is a bike trail with this ominous warning. The sign shows a cycling flipping head-over-handlebars after encountering a railroad track. The sign was shared to the there is NO...
Anti-war group urges Whitmer to drop support for potential munitions facility in Grayling
(WPBN/WGTU) -- An anti-war organization is encouraging Michigan residents to oppose the potential development of a munitions facility in Grayling. Saab AB, a Swedish aerospace and defense company, announced earlier this year it intends to build a new munitions facility in the U.S., with Grayling as one of the proposed locations.
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