TRAVERSE CITY—You gotta love a good county commission meeting, especially when they keep it real with the finances. Today, the buzz in Grand Traverse County was all about the budget for next year, and let’s say it’s looking pretty peachy. Our commissioners gave the thumbs up on the new budget appropriations unanimously, of course—gotta show […]
PONTIAC, Mich (WXYZ) — You know how things go in the bustling streets and coffee shops of New York. But here’s something that’ll make you pause between sips. In a courtroom out in Oakland County, they paraded two Chinese nationals in front of a judge. The charge? An alleged investment scam. Now, you’d think a […]
The other day, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors took a hard pass on beefing up campaign contribution limits. The deal was to let folks give more dough to candidates, doubling limits from $20,000 to $40,000 for your local supervisors and bumping it from $40,000 to $60,000 for big-shot county positions like district attorney and […]