Jim Mishler

State Senators last week were voting along straight party lines to approve the provision from a citizen petition drive to repeal a state law on the books since 1945. The Michigan State House of Representatives gets a crack at it on Wednesday.

Battle Creek is being saved from a pending federal numbers rule that could have reduced tax funds coming back to the city. Several other Michigan cities also faced the reduced federal funding issue including Jackson, Midland, Niles, Benton Harbor, and Monroe.

The Michigan State House Oversight Committee is opening a wide-ranging investigation into the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency. Committee Chair Steve Johnson from Wayland says it’s already underway and will broaden as the legislature returns to Lansing from its summer break. Quoting Joh…

The implications for many Americans are just starting to sink in. The Executive Order signed by President Joe Biden last week may indeed help hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not millions, in ways most never thought of before.

The MRA says the company called, 3843 Euclid, LLC., hasn’t been doing a good job managing the safety of its marijuana products.

Winners are eligible for as much as $2 million. Smaller prizes of $1 million, $50,000, and some available scholarship awards are also being offered.

State Police are announcing the first-ever trooper academy specifically being offered to current law enforcement officers. In other words, the state is now actively recruiting current law enforcement officers from departments throughout Michigan to jump ship.

It’s not often when we see a Michigan State Representative calling out the State Attorney General as the lawmaker may be investigated by the AG. But that’s what is happening this week as we continue to see the fallout from a recent State Senate committee report. It could be described a…

Battle Creek Police are questioning two people about their potential involvement in a weekend crime. They're detained in connection with another fire at the former Southwestern Jr High, along South Washington.

It had been rumored as far as three weeks back that the popular Labor Day holiday weekend event would be back this year. But not until the board of the Bridge Authority made it official on Friday was it a sure thing.