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LANSING, Mich - Receiving $900,000 of taxpayer money won’t stop a Michigan electric vehicle maker from shuttering two locations and taking 188 jobs out of state.
Auburn Hills-based automotive supplier BorgWarner will close two plants of its subsidiary Akasol Inc., in Hazel Park and Warren. Layoffs will run from April 14 through July, according to a notice issued to the state under the federal WARN Act.
The factories test products for electric vehicles, including battery modules and packs, direct current fast charging equipment, and microgrid control and operations, according to a 2023 news release.
In 2019, the Michigan Strategic Fund awarded the company $2.24 million in taxpayer money for its Hazel Park plant, with the expectation it would create 224 jobs. The money would be paid out over five years as the company met milestones for creating jobs. Click here to read more.
CLEVELAND, OH - A medical watchdog says that the Cleveland Clinic is taking hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding while pushing race-based programs and policies.
Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to depoliticizing medicine, reported Monday that the Ohio clinic is engaged in a range of “discriminatory behavior.” This behavior includes recruitment strategies explicitly for minorities, minority-exclusive scholarships, and adopting “supplier diversity” policies.
“The Cleveland Clinic used to be synonymous with excellence,” Do No Harm Director of Research Ian Kingsbury told The Daily Wire. “Now, it’s becoming an avatar for everything that is wrong with American health care. It’s a sorry tale about the displacement of rigor and dispassionate truth seeking in favor of identity politics.” Click here to read more.
MESA, Ariz. — A Chandler police officer and an off-duty firefighter are being credited with saving a woman’s life after a seven-car crash in Mesa left her trapped in a burning pickup truck, AZ Central reported.
Officer Brian Larison of the Chandler Police Department was on his way to work on Feb. 18 when he took an alternate route, putting him at the scene of the crash around 7 a.m., according to the report. A concrete mixer had rear-ended a Nissan pickup, causing it to overturn and catch fire.
Larison, a 20-year police veteran and former Marine, rushed to the burning truck and used his baton to break the window, video shows. As he worked to free the driver, off-duty Peoria firefighter and paramedic Asa Paguia, who happened to have his fire gear with him, arrived to assist.
Together, they pulled the woman, identified as Aymee Ruiz, through the window and away from the flames just moments before the fire spread to the truck’s cabin.
“She clung to me on the side of the road, and I just held her,” Larison told AZ Central, visibly emotional. “I just told her I had her.”
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Two Santa Rosa high school students have died after allegedly overdosing on fentanyl, Santa Rosa police said. Two other students remain hospitalized after also allegedly overdosing on fentanyl in a separate incident Saturday.
A former student, a 19-year-old, is believed to have also died from drugs. However, officials said they don't believe the cases are related.
A 21-year-old, Ramon Nunez, was arrested Sunday in connection with the two fatal overdoses.
Santa Rosa authorities were first alerted around 5:15 a.m. Saturday about a suspected fentanyl overdose involving 14 and 16-year-old girls. Those girls were taken to a hospital and survived.
Later in the day, around 8:15 p.m., officers visited a home in the 2100 block on Brookwood Drive after a friend contacted police when she came across two teens lying unresponsive in bed. Click here to read more.
TAMPA, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he is proposing a Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force in Florida aimed at auditing government spending and exploring the potential abolition of property taxes.
“I’m pleased to announce that we are launching a comprehensive initiative to continue to streamline our government and to continue to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy, and to continue to ensure tax dollars are used in the most efficient way possible,” the governor said during a press conference Monday.
DeSantis said since 2019, Florida has more than tripled the rainy day fund, reduced the state’s historical debt by 41%, and kept Florida’s state employee count per capita the lowest in the nation. But he added, “we need to do more.”
“Our state DOGE task force will use AI to amplify our efficiency efforts, spearhead audits at our state universities and tee up the elimination of more than 70 state boards and commissions,” DeSantis said. Click here to read more.
