Deb Owens

Battle Creek Mayor Deb Owens offered her perspective on the recently passed ethics ordinance in the city, which puts a policy in place should a commissioner act in an unethical manor while serving. Owens tells The Richard Piet Show on WBCK she has no reservations about the policy, which took effect Friday...

Less than a week after a drawn out process to select the city's next mayor, Deb Owens tells WBCK the process should, at least, be reviewed. "I do not like that system," Owens said on The Richard Piet Show Monday morning on WBCK, referring to the process of choosing a mayor in Battle Creek that involves newly elected city commissioners voting among themselves to choose a mayor and vice ma