Mayor Dave Walters

Battle Creek Mayor Dave Walters - fresh off his rallying of Battle Creek residents in his State of the City address on January 24 - continued his call for optimism during a visit to WBCK. In his speech Tuesday morning at the Kool Center, Walters pointed to several things the region is working on, many of which have potential to turn a corner in 2017: Heritage Tower Development Walters said a recen

Battle Creek Mayor Dave Walters election to the city's top commissioner post, this year, went as smoothly as last, with a unanimous vote among his peers. Two years ago, he relented to former mayor and current Commissioner Deb Owens, and changed his vote in order to tilt the votes in her favor...

Battle Creek Mayor Dave Walters tells WBCK a collaboration between the city and Kalamazoo is likely to be hammered out as it relates to emergencies like the Kalamazoo shootings two months ago. Walters said one meeting has already taken place between he and Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell, and also involved city managers Rebecca Fleury and Jim Ritsema...

Battle Creek Mayor Dave Walters, elected again to the post by a majority of his peers after a year out of the post, tells WBCK's Richard Piet he's glad to be back in the post. "I didn't want to leave it in the first place," Walters said Thursday, referring to last year's deadlocked vote among commissioners in which he switched his vote in order to solve the impasse...