Is Michigan the Next Minnesota? Nesbitt Calls for Investigation into Whitmer’s MiLEAP.
LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handpicked bureaucratic offshoot of the state’s Department of Education should get a closer look, according to a Republican lawmaker looking to take her job in November.
Michigan Senate Republican Leader and gubernatorial candidate Aric Nesbitt is calling for an independent investigation into the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) and its Child Development and Care (CDC) Program.
The Porter Township lawmaker cited growing fraud allegations tied to similar child care assistance programs nationwide.
Nesbitt sent a letter to Michigan Auditor General Doug Ringler and requested a formal audit of the program administered by Whitmer’s MiLEAP. The CDC Program provides child care subsidies to low-income families and is receiving more than $540 million in taxpayer funding this year. Click here to read more.
Illinois spends $1M to rethink capitalism
Illinois state lawmakers are putting over $1 million behind projects to “rethink capitalism” and so they could pay people for not working – all using money other people worked for.
There are plenty of examples of paying people money for nothing having failed and hurting their families. But the state’s 2026 budget includes a $200,000 grant for the Reimagining Capitalism in Illinois Lab for “operational expenses” and an $827,000 grant for a guaranteed income pilot program.
Illinois faces low economic growth, high debt and ballooning pensions – all because state lawmakers are taking ever-more from taxpayers and driving out jobs and working families. Lawmakers claimed the 2026 budget contained no pork, but a closer look shows 2,815 items over $200,000 lawmakers decided to fund in the final hours of the legislative session – rushed, harmful to taxpayers and with no time for public scrutiny. Click here to read more.
Top Attorney For Special Counsel Jack Smith Previously Spiked Clinton Foundation Investigation
Ray Hulser, the then-head of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section (PIN), withheld information from the U.S. Attorney’s office investigating the Clinton Foundation under Trump 1.0. Hulser would later downplay and/or provide inconsistent details concerning the Clinton Foundation probe to both Trump 1.0’s DOJ and Special Counsel John Durham’s office. In spite of — or maybe because of — that history, Special Counsel Jack Smith selected Hulser to help lead the criminal witch-hunt against Trump, with Hulser personally recommending Smith subpoena the toll records of nearly a dozen Congressional Republicans. Click here to read more.
HOA slaps single mom with fine after wind blows trash bag from full dumpster
SURPRISE, Ariz. (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) - A single mother who rents an Arizona townhome was fined $150 by her homeowners association after a takeout bag she left by an overflowing dumpster blew into the street.
Jessica Ensley, who lives in Surprise’s Hayden Farms community, says she left a brown paper bag from her $20 dinner by the dumpster because it was already full. The bag, which contained a receipt with her name, blew into the street.
“I’m a very clean person, and I respect the rules,” Ensley said. “I’m not one to just blatantly throw trash around, so yes, it was so full that even that brown paper bag couldn’t fit into it at that time.” Click here to read more.
More car buyers than ever are taking on $1,000+ payments
New cars have effectively become luxuty goods, and a record share of buyers are opting into $1,000-a-month car payments.
Last quarter, one in five new car buyers (20.3%) who financed their purchases committed to monthly payments of $1,000 or more — the highest share on record, according to new data from Edmunds.
The total amount buyers financed also hit an all-time high, averaging $43,759, more than $10,000 above the pre-pandemic norm at the end of 2019.
“The record-setting figures we’re seeing reflect the financial strain many buyers faced throughout the year,” Ivan Drury, Edmunds’ director of insights, said in a statement. Click here to read more.
