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LANSING, Mich - Michigan governmental agencies will spend more than $150,000 to hold a conference on climate-related policies in April. The policies likely to be discussed will, however, have little effect on the climate, according to a university-based scientist.
Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy will hold its 2025 Healthy Climate Conference on April 22-23 at the Huntington Place in Detroit. The department’s plans call for the state to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Speakers will discuss the transition to electric vehicles, how to decarbonize cities, clean the electric grid, and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a website for the conference.
All of these things would increase the cost of electricity while hurting reliability, Michigan Capitol Confidential has reported.
Grand Rapids the state’s second-largest city, urges residents to drive less, use less energy, and switch to driving electric vehicles. Other cities enacting climate change policies include East Lansing, Jackson, Muskegon, Sterling Heights and Warren.
LANSING, MICH - As Michigan continues to grapple with declining literacy rates, the state House took up House Bill 4156, a proposal aimed at reintroducing phonics-based reading instruction in public schools.
Fifty-seven of the Republicans who voted on the measure backed the bill, calling phonics a time-tested method to improve literacy.
However, 43 of the Democratic legislators who voted opposed the bill, including: Reps. Joey Andrews, Noah Arbit, Kelly Breen, Julie Brixie, Brenda Carter, Tyrone Carter, Jennifer Conlin, Emily Dievendorf, Kimberly Edwards, Alabas Farhat, John Fitzgerald, Morgan Foreman, Peter Herzberg, Kara Hope, Jason Hoskins, Matt Koleszar, Tullio Liberati, Matt Longjohn, Sharon MacDonell, Jasper Martus, Mike McFall, Donavan McKinney, Denise Mentzer, Reggie Miller, Tonya Myers Phillips, Cynthia Neeley, Amos O’Neal, Laurie Pohutsky, Natalie Price, Ranjeev Puri, Carrie Rheingans, Julie Rogers, Phil Skaggs, Will Snyder, Joe Tate, Penelope Tsernoglou, Dylan Wegela, Jimmie Wilson Jr., Angela Witwer, Stephen Wooden, Mai Xiong, and Stephanie Young all voted “no” on HB 4156. Click here to read more.
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PHOENIX, AZ - Our communities are the building blocks of society. Whether neighbors, churches, family, or the family we create from our friends, our communities shape who we are. They also serve as core support systems. It is through these connections that we know what it means to be human.
For 25-year-old Austin Davis, his love for his community is the driving force behind everything he does. Austin has spent the past five years running Arizona Hugs, a group that provides meals and support for Tempe’s homeless population. He didn’t wake up one morning and decide on a whim to get into charity work; his call to serve arose organically as he built personal relationships with the homeless community. While attending Arizona State University, Austin would skate to class and around town, which is how he got to know the folks he lovingly refers to as his “homies.”
Much of the homeless population lived in an area of town known as the river bottom, which most people avoid. But Austin was always welcome and soon became a regular fixture down there. When the community showed Austin that they trusted him, he told them, “I want to show that same trust right back at you.” Above all, Austin wanted to impart a sense of community. As he says, “The best way for someone to get off drugs or work through their trauma is to create a stable, safe environment where their basic needs are met, and they feel safe enough to trust the people around them.” Click here to read more.
VIRGNIA BEACH, VA - The budget chair of a beleaguered $4 billion school system spent years pulling off a premeditated con to steal two airplanes worth $1.5 million, a new lawsuit filing alleges.
Kyle McDaniel, a member of Virginia’s Fairfax County School Board, was accused by his private-sector employer of using corporate credit cards to spend $150,000 on personal expenses, strip clubs, and his school board campaign, according to a lawsuit first reported by The Daily Wire earlier this month.
Now, that employer, Blue Label Aviation, added in court documents obtained by The Daily Wire that it has since discovered that McDaniel’s alleged fraud was significantly worse. It outlined methodical, years-long financial fraud that raises questions about how the all-Democrat school board could continue to let McDaniel oversee the finances of one of America’s largest school systems.
FCPS this month resorted to enlisting children to beg for more money, telling them the school system is in a financial crisis, has already cut all non-essential services, and that if the county doesn’t steer unprecedented amounts of money to the schools, children will suffer. It gave them an activist “toolkit” to pressure the leaders who disburse funding to the school system. Click here to read more.
SEATTLE — Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol are asking the nation’s highest court to keep their identities anonymous in public court records.
Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities should be made public. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled in February that they can be identified and that they haven’t shown that public release of their names violates their right to privacy. The state supreme court denied reconsideration earlier this month and lawyers for the four officers submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that the names remain protected during their legal challenge.
Four officers who attended events in the nation’s capital on the day of an insurrection claimed they are protected under the state’s public records law. They say they did nothing wrong and that revealing their names would violate their privacy.
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 events, the Seattle Police Department ordered an investigation into whether any of its officers who traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the rally had violated any laws or department policies. Click here to read more.
