Jim Mishler

You can't opt out this year, but local officials say its safe.

State police troopers got some help from about a half dozen additional law enforcement departments to at least put a temporary halt to drug smuggling into the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater.

Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is telling the Small Business Association of Michigan she’s far from ending her unilateral declaration of a State of Emergency.

Legislation is starting to move its way through Committee action in the state House to send an invoice, and demand payment from China, for the havoc created by the COVID-19 virus.

The state is continuing it’s COVID-19 virus workplace rules enforcement this week. It’s imposing fines totaling over $51,000 against 19 businesses across the state.

This report comes as the state had planes in the air over a number of areas in lower Michigan overnight spraying to control mosquitos that carry the virus.

US Attorney General William Barr was in the area overnight, speaking to a large audience at Hillsdale College. Barr used the occasion to go after prosecutors who he says are behaving like headhunters.

Potentially the state would take a positive sewer sample report from a town and issue blanket restrictions on everyone there.

Adding a second lock to accommodate super freighters on the Great Lakes was authorized by Congress in 1986. But funding was always thrown to the back burner ever since.

The event is billed as an opportunity for Michigan residents to meet and talk with other supporters of the 2nd Amendment and talk with many state lawmakers who will be on site.