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Michigan’s Green Energy Plan Means Higher Bills, More Blackouts
MIDLAND, Mich. — Michigan’s net-zero energy law could more than double utility bills, increase blackout risks, and deliver negligible climate benefits, a new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy warns.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “MI Healthy Climate Plan” mandates 100% clean energy by 2050 through a rapid transition to wind, solar, and battery storage as well as the phasing out of fossil fuels.
“Michigan’s Expensive Net-Zero Gamble: Projecting the Costs of Gov. Whitmer’s MI Healthy Climate Plan” was conducted in partnership with the Center of the American Experiment and Always On Energy Research. The report concludes that the governor’s proposed transition will strain the state’s power grid and impose major costs on taxpayers. Click here to read more.
Civil rights groups alarmed over Quebec’s move to ban prayer in public
Quebec says it will ban prayer in public, a move that civil rights groups described as an “alarming measure” that targets religious minority groups and would infringe on “basic democratic freedoms”.
The province’s secularism minister, Jean-François Roberge, said the move had been prompted by the “proliferation of street prayer” which he described as “a serious and sensitive issue” adding that the government had watched with “unease”. Roberge said the government would introduce legislation in the fall.
The announcement follows public statements from Quebec’s premier, François Legault, who expressed mounting frustration over public prayers in the province’s largest city, Montreal. Click here to read more.
Just 38.9% of Michigan third graders proficient in reading, according to state test
In the third grade, Michigan’s children are learning to recognize and use prefixes like re- and un- and suffixes like -ful and—less to expand their vocabulary. They practice high-frequency words that appear in nearly everything they will ever read, such as again, between, favorite, and important. As they grow into confident readers, they begin writing and reading compound words like playground, sunshine, and notebook.
But that progress is not happening at the rate it should. The latest state test results show that over 60% of third graders cannot read at grade level.
According to the Michigan Department of Education, only 38.9% of third graders scored proficient in reading on the most recent M-STEP exam, the poorest result since the test began. In 2019, before the pandemic and Michigan’s extended period of remote learning under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, nearly 45% of students were at grade level. The steady decline since then shows that many children have not recovered from those prolonged classroom closures. Click here to read more.
Left-Wing Dark Money Outfit Accused of Trying to Buy Social Media Influencers
One of the most influential left-wing dark money organizations stands accused of trying to buy social media influencers, aiming to unify the Left as Democrats struggle to find the path forward after President Donald Trump’s historic victory in November.
Trump’s interviews with conservative YouTubers, podcast hosts, and alternative media influencers accumulated more than 100 million views ahead of the 2024 presidential election, and it seems the group Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has ties to Arabella Advisors, is intent on galvanizing this new strategy on the other side of the aisle.
Will its efforts unite the woke infrastructure of the Left with the large audiences who flock to left-wing influencers? Or will the exposure of this effort further divide the Democrat activist class? Click here to read more.
Florida authorities uncover widespread illegal alien cheating scheme for CDL exam: report
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An investigation into a criminal scheme that allowed non-English speaking individuals to cheat on their commercial driver’s license, or CDL exam has exposed a link between fraud and fatal crashes, according to a report by First Coast News.
The report details how a group of men, including five who were arrested in Jacksonville, used hidden cameras and earpieces to receive test answers from accomplices outside of a DMV testing center.
The scheme, which the Florida Highway Patrol calls “organized fraud,” allowed applicants to obtain a CDL without a proper understanding of English or road signs.
According to First Coast News, the danger of the scheme was tragically illustrated by a fatal crash in South Florida. Click here to read more.
