A coalition of 79 townships and counties has sued the Michigan Public Service Commission in the state Court of Appeals, seeking to stop it from overriding local control of large-scale wind and solar energy projects.
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- 🚨 Michigan DNR raided farms and killed pigs claiming they were “Russian boars” — but some experts say that species doesn’t even exist. @tednugent says it best: “I’m being sued for something that doesn’t exist.” This is government insanity.
00:00 - President Donald Trump signed a spending bill into law on July 4 that will shift responsibility for about $890 million of food stamps to Michigan. The state can’t pay the bill, according to Michigan’s top executive.
- Rep. Cynthia Neeley, D-Flint, has submitted a $25 million earmark request from Michigan’s next budget for an organization that has no physical presence, IRS recognition or online footprint. “This $25 million capital and program investment will support the redevelopment of a
- Closing down the seed section wasn’t the half of it in Michigan. During the lockdown era, absolute power corrupted, absolutely.
- Nessel hasn’t charged 2nd in command of Michigan State Police accused of misconduct 250 days after report.
- Michigan lost more than 125,000 auto jobs over the last two decades — a 41% drop — while Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and other states gained tens of thousands.
- “Giving more power to bureaucrats is not the path to freedom in Michigan. Not for the farmer. Not for anybody.” But now it’s the law in Michigan
- No, Michigan is not enjoying the lowest unemployment rate since the 1970s
- A taxpayer funded program that promised nearly 9,000 jobs has delivered none in the State of Michigan.
- .@SteveCarraMI asked the @MEDC for details about Gov. Whitmer’s recent overseas trip. They didn’t have the answer — but CapCon did.
00:00 - Michigan is now sending out a staggering 738 new Bridge cards every day amid a nearly 400% spike in SNAP fraud.
- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spent $219,622 on her 11-day June 2025 trip to Australia, according to documents obtained through a records request.
- Jennifer Granholm’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad EV trip When a trip to pitch the EV results in an EV user calling 911, safe to say the mission was not accomplished

