Gov. Rick Snyder makes appointment to the Muskegon Heights School District Receivership Transition Advisory Board

Gov. Rick Snyder makes appointment to the Muskegon Heights School District Receivership Transition Advisory Board

LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Michael Wrobel of Mason to the Muskegon Heights School District Receivership Transition Advisory Board (RTAB). The board was first named in October of 2016, after the school district’s financial emergency was resolved and the school district transitioned back to local control. “Michael is an excellent addition to […]

MCC Series Looks at ‘Economic Injustice: The Empowerment Experiment’ on Sept. 19

MCC Series Looks at ‘Economic Injustice: The Empowerment Experiment’ on Sept. 19

The popular “…And Justice for All” series at Muskegon Community College resumes on Tuesday, Sept. 19, with a discussion of “Economic Injustice: The Empowerment Experiment” by Margarita “Maggie” Anderson, the CEO and founder of the Illinois-based Empowerment Experiment Foundation and author of Our Black Year. Community members are encouraged to attend the free event, which runs […]

Medicaid Cuts Could Hurt Seniors Most

Medicaid Cuts Could Hurt Seniors Most

Much of the country is focused on the debate around repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. However, what hasn’t received nearly as much attention is that the House also passed deep cuts to the federal-state Medicaid program as part of the ACA repeal bill, despite that having nothing to do with repealing or replacing […]

BOOK NOOK FEST WELCOMES YOUTUBE STAR

BOOK NOOK FEST WELCOMES YOUTUBE STAR

Montague – Matthew Ball aka The Motor City Boogie Woogie Kid is the attorney turned musician who now has over 3.8 million YouTube views and counting!  Michigan’s reigning Boogie n’ Blues heavyweight, Ball left the practice of law in 2001 to pursue a life in Music. With recent appearances on Fox 2 News Detroit’s ‘The Nine Show’ […]

GVSU camp introduces girls to engineering

GVSU camp introduces girls to engineering

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Middle school girls will get a glimpse into the careers of technology and engineering at a four-day camp in June at Grand Valley State University. The camp is held to expose female students to careers in STEM occupations, which are made of less than 30 percent women. Science, Technology and Engineering Preview […]

Michigan Education Leaders Blasts Legislature

Michigan Education Leaders Blasts Legislature

LANSING — The American Federation of Teachers – Michigan released the following statement regarding the passage of a package of bills that will gut the secure retirement promised to teachers. “These bills are nothing but political ideology of corporate donors like the DeVos family masked  as a solution to a problem that, in reality, doesn’t […]

Dog Park Construction Is Underway

Dog Park Construction Is Underway

MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon’s first public dog park is now under construction as Downtown Muskegon Now has contracted with Port City Construction to complete the Downtown Muskegon PetSafe Bark Park. The off-leash dog park at the corner of West Western Avenue and Shoreline Drive is a collaboration of funding groups led by the Michigan Economic […]

Radio Show seeks to educate community about Holistic Health and Medical Marijuana

Radio Show seeks to educate community about Holistic Health and Medical Marijuana

By Victor Skinner ROOSEVELT PARK – Mark Portincasa and Paul Farage are setting the record straight about medical marijuana while helping local residents find a more holistic approach to their health. “We talk about medical marijuana certifications and how to go about getting your medical marijuana card,” said Farage, who launched The Society of Healing […]

Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?

Is Trump Enlisting in the War Party?

By Patrick J. Buchanan By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to fight. Thus far Bashar Assad seems unintimidated. Brushing off the strikes, he has defiantly gone back to bombing the rebels […]

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