Elaine Mallon – A two-year-old, accompanied by her family’s two dogs, walked over three miles barefoot and was eventually found peacefully asleep deep within a wooded trail in Michigan with one of the dogs as a makeshift pillow.
The incident prompted a call to troopers around 8 p.m. on a Wednesday in rural Faithorn, Michigan, after Thea Chase had wandered away from her home, as shared by Michigan State Police Lt. Mark Giannunzio during a conversation with CNN.
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Bob Unruh – A lawyer fighting an election-fraud case in Antrim County, Michigan, has revealed that the voting machines there contained a software program that could have been used to manipulate vote totals.
In fact, lawyer Matthew DePerno said in a podcast interview that with the MySQL program installed on the machines, and them all being linked, someone with access could “do whatever you want.”
DePerno, just a day earlier confirmed in a court hearing that there were 1,061 “phantom votes” in the county during the 2020 presidential election, because while a recount of ballots tallied 15,962, the Michigan secretary of state’s database showed only 14,901 votes were cast. Continue reading
Niamh Harris – A Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require high school students to compete on sports teams based on their “biological sex,” which the legislation defines as “the physical condition of being male or female” as identified at birth.
The bill, which Democrats have slammed as an attack on transgender students, was intrroduced by Sen Lana Theis on Wednesday, and mirrors others that are also being proposed in 20 other states.
RT reports: The measure will require that public school sports programs designate male and female teams, allowing student athletes to compete only on teams that align with their “biological sex.” Continue reading
Michael Maharrey – A new law banning “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs went into effect in Michigan. This is an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end unconstitutional spying on its own
Rep. Martin Howrylak (R-Troy) introduced House Bill 4430 (HB4430) last spring. The new law prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from assisting, participating with, or providing “material support or resources, to a federal agency to enable it to collect, or to facilitate in the collection or use of a person’s electronic data” unless one of five conditions apply:
(a) The person has given informed consent.
(b) The action is pursuant to a warrant that is based upon probable cause and particularly describes the person, place, or thing to be searched or seized.
(c) The action is in accordance with a legally recognized exception to warrant requirements.
(d) The action will not infringe on any reasonable expectation of privacy the person may have.
(e) This state or a political subdivision of this state collected the electronic data or metadata legally.
The House approved the final version of HB4430 108-1. The Senate passed the measure 37-0. With Gov. Snyder’s signature, the new law went into effect at midnight June 17. Continue reading
Before retiring, a Michigan car dealership owner wanted to thank his employees in a special way.
All 89 employees at the Howard Cooper Import Center in Ann Arbor were given $1,000 for each year of service to the 47-year-old auto dealership.
‘The lady behind me had tears running down her face,’ employee Sandy Reagan told AnnArbor.com.
‘I sat next to a person who drives the parts van and he’s been here almost 28 years. He doesn’t make a ton of money, but he got almost $28,000.
‘I watched his face and he just said, “Oh my God,” said Reagan, who has been with the company 46 years.