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How A Criminal Enterprise Stole $800,000 From Meijer Stores
Retail criminals have gotten better at getting away with their crimes. A group in Michigan targeted Meijer and was able to scam them out of almost $1,000,000. Meijer has suffered over $800,000 in losses due to an organized retail crime scheme that has persisted for several years in Michigan. Court...
Are Michigan Schools Ready to Adopt a Four-Day Week?
Is your family ready to embrace a four-day school week? Although it's a fairly new concept, two school districts in Northern Michigan have already adopted it. According to the Associated Press, there are roughly 13,000 school districts in the United States. Two decades ago, there were only about 100 school districts in the US observing a four-day week. That number grew to 662 in 2019 and currently stands at close to 900 districts nationwide.
MICHIGAN SCHOOL MEALS PROGRAM: A WIN FOR STUDENTS AND LOCAL AGRICULTURE
Wow, how times have changed! Remember the days when your parents would have to give you money daily so you could buy a school lunch? It looks like those days are over for all Michigan elementary, middle and high school students. Earlier this year, Govenor Gretchen Whitmer was able to...
Study Says Michigan Believes Its Teachers Are Woefully Underpaid
Many people agree that teachers are one of the most underpaid positions in the entire workforce. Oftentimes they work well over 40 hours, pay out of pocket for classroom supplies, and handle 15-25 children per day. If you know a teacher, you know it's exhaustive work. Unfortunately, in most situations,...
'Things are going fantastic': Michigan Senate Majority Leader Brinks gives thoughts on DNC
CHICAGO, Ill. — Thursday marks the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and several Michigan Democrats are in attendance. One of them is Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D - Grand Rapids), who has said she is happy with how the convention has gone so far.
'I'm just being me,' Gretchen Whitmer says as she prepares to take DNC stage
CHICAGO ― Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is getting the reception of a rock star at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, but she's not doing anything differently than she does it in Michigan. "I don't know, I'm just being me," she told The Free Press in an interview at the convention...
State official says they've found no evidence Elon Musk’s Super PAC violated voter registration laws
Elon Musk’s America PAC is trying to persuade election officials in Michigan and North Carolina to back off their investigations of its voter registration practices. And the political action committee may have succeeded at least in part, as Michigan says it hasn’t found evidence of any violations of state campaign finance law but will continue to monitor the situation.
Will Livingston have a cold and snowy winter? Here's the Farmers' Almanac prediction.
Get ready for a wet and cold winter in Michigan, according to a new prediction from the Farmers' Almanac. The 208th edition of the Farmers' Almanac, out now, foresees a "Wet Winter Whirlwind" for the upcoming 2024-25 winter season. "It definitely looks more wet than white in many areas," Farmers' Almanac editor...
Michigan plans $14.97 minimum wage by 2028 — but seeks court clarity first
LANSING — Michigan intends to raise its minimum wage to $12.48 in 2025 and $14.97 by 2028 but is seeking clarity from the state Supreme Court before proceeding. That’s according to a Wednesday filing by the state treasury and labor departments, which is asking justices to further explain by Sept. 15 their earlier blockbuster ruling requiring wage increases that account for inflation.
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. […]
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