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Donald Trump back in Michigan on Aug. 26 for National Guard Association conference
(FOX 2) - Less than a week after visiting Michigan, former President Donald Trump will be back in the state for another campaign event - this time at the National Guard's General Conference Exhibition at Huntington Place. Trump will be in Detroit on Monday for the final day of the...
Michigan’s corn, other crops maturing quickly, harvest may be done early
Michigan’s row crops are currently estimated to mature somewhat early compared to historic norms. Some Michigan farms also give us what they are seeing on their current crop maturity. Michigan’s most widely grown row crops include corn, soybeans, dry beans and sugar beets. Although it hasn’t been an...
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. […]
‘I Felt a Lot of Freedom’: Midwest Summer Camp for LGBTQ+ Youth Offers Sanctuary and Life Lessons
At campsites across Michigan and Ohio, Camp 4 All offers a safe place for summer fun. Standing on a beach in Traverse City, Michigan, 16-year-old Naja Nile chose not to swim despite the brutal summer sun, but saw them: kids with colorful hair splashing in the sparkling water. Wearing bathing...
Benny Cook of Quail Ridge GC wins Michigan PGA Professional Championship
BENTON HARBOR – Benny Cook rallied from behind and then held on to win the 103rd Michigan PGA Professional Championship at Harbor Shores Resort Wednesday. The 30-year-old director of instruction at Quail Ridge Golf Club in Ada won the Michigan PGA state title for the third time by shooting a 3-under 68 in the final round on the Jack Nicklaus-designed layout on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Proposed DTE rate hike could cover the cost of private jet use, Michigan AG Nessel says
(CBS DETROIT) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is once again pushing back against a proposed DTE Energy rate hike. Nessel accuses the energy company of spending lavishly on corporate jets for their CEOs and attempting to pass that cost onto customers. DTE is asking for another rate hike just months after a previous hike that amounted to a $368 million increase. In testimony to the Michigan Public Service Commission, Nessel reported that DTE officials inflated the costs associated with running the utility by spending money on corporate jet travel. An additional rate hike would mean a 10% increase in consumers' bills. It's a move Nessel...
Trump piles onto GOP’s China attacks in Michigan Senate race
Republicans are trying to put a Chinese-linked company at the center of Michigan’s heated battleground Senate race between former Michigan GOP Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI). Former President Donald Trump has even entered the fray, seeking to portray Slotkin, the Democratic nominee, as weak on China during her three terms in the […]
Multiple KFC locations in Wisconsin to close, over 80 people to be laid off
(WFRV) – Multiple KFC locations in southern Wisconsin are reportedly closing and are expected to lay out just over 80 employees. According to a letter sent to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD), EYM Chicken of Wisconsin, LLC will be permanently ceasing operations in Wisconsin. This is reportedly due to the ‘unforeseen business circumstance’ and not being able to reach a resolution with KFC.
U of Wisconsin regents agree to ask Gov. Tony Evers for $855 million budget increase
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Universities of Wisconsin regents agreed overwhelmingly on Thursday to ask Gov. Tony Evers for an additional $855 million for the cash-strapped system in the next state budget. UW system President Jay Rothman has promised he won't seek to raise tuition during the life of the two-year spending plan if the system gets the money. Tuition and student fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the system’s flagship...
2024 Michigan Democratic Convention set to take place at the Lansing Center
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan Democrats will have their state nomination convention Saturday. The 2024 convention will be at the Lansing Center on Michigan Avenue and will support Michigan candidates from all over. Whey will nominate democratic supreme court members, Michigan State University board members, and more. The convention starts...
Grand Rapids company’s sales at Meijer benefit youth education
Grady’s Garden is a company and a cartoon series, all about healthy food and getting kids to eat their vegetables. “Hey, this lettuce, tastes like lettuce. Because it is lettuce.”. Founder Mike Wheeler says their products have no artificial flavors, colors or added sugar and reduced sodium. “All raw...
US Secretary of Education to visit Green Bay in September
GREEN BAY, WI – (WGBW & WISS) – U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will visit Green Bay next month. Starting September 3rd Cardona will visit schools in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania as part of the “Back to School Bus Tour. The theme of the...
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