AMY CHOZICK Clinton’s choice, which she announced via text message to supporters, came after her advisers spent months poring over potential vice-presidential candidates who could lift the Democratic ticket in an unpredictable race against Trump. In the end, Clinton decided Kaine, 58, a former governor of Virginia who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, […]
LANSING, Mich. – Governor Rick Snyder issued the following statement after the announcement that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June fell to 4.6 percent, its lowest point since February 2001: “Today’s drop in the unemployment rate marks another milestone on Michigan’s comeback path. At 4.6 percent, our unemployment rate has now fallen by […]
ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN CLEVELAND — Donald Trump was formally crowned the Republican nominee for president at the party’s convention on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous primary season but not nagging questions about his polarizing candidacy as he once again found himself embroiled in controversy. With his campaign appearing in disarray after his wife, Melania, […]
Muskegon County – The World War II-era B-17 “Yankee Lady” is a radial-engine roaring, prop-spinning, flying piece of history that will land Saturday, July 23, at Muskegon County Airport. The Yankee Air Museum is dispatching its flagship, the Boeing B-17G “Yankee Lady,” to Muskegon for a one-day visit. The museum’s award winning World War II […]
I have volunteered for Sean Mullally’s campaign twice. One of those two times were to march with him in Heights Festival in the Park parade. The event was a fun, friendly, and new experience for me, but now a malicious rumor is being spread claiming that the black people who volunteered to march in the […]
DECLAN WALSH Republican delegates are converging on the lakeside city of Cleveland for the Republican National Convention. Their task is to nominate the party’s presidential candidate for the election in November. There is a single contender: Donald Trump, the property tycoon, reality TV star and — after a successful primary campaign that upended American politics […]
Muskegon – With the close of the 2016 school year, the Community Foundation for Muskegon County (CFMC) announces it has awarded 491 scholarships totaling in $1,646,242 to graduating seniors from Muskegon County schools. Twenty nine percent of the scholarships awarded were to “first generation college students,” the first person in their family to pursue post-secondary […]
ALLENDALE – The Grand Valley State University Board of Trustees adopted the university’s FY 2016 budget and set tuition rates for the academic year at its July 15 meeting, held in the Kirkhof Center on the Allendale Campus. The tuition increase complies with the state’s tuition cap and keeps Grand Valley’s tuition in the bottom […]
By Tribune Newswire Okemos, MI – The Michigan Nurses Association(MNA) has given their strong endorsement to Sean Mullally for 92nd State Representative. MNA is the largest professional association of registered nurses in Michigan. This endorsement is significant because Health Care is the largest employment sector in the 92nd District. “I’m honored to have the endorsement […]
KATIE SHEPHERD Alan Rappeport contributed reporting. Mike Pence, who has served as governor of Indiana since 2013, will be Donald Trump’s running mate on the Republican presidential ticket. Pence, a staunch social conservative, was elected in 2000 to the House of Representatives, where he served in the party leadership. Here is a look at his […]