#@kz-river

[porterdavis]

Michigan diner owner who defied state shutdown dies of COVID-19

John Parney Sr. died Dec. 14.

The hits keep happening...

[yourreddancer]

Exhausted in a ‘nightmare’: A look inside a Michigan hospital COVID unit

Hospitalizations statewide, which had dropped from nearly 4,000 in the spring to 300 in the summer, are back up near 4,000. And it’s getting worse.

[ms-cellanies]

Closed Kalamazoo youth home where teen died is focus of MSNBC special

Lakeside Academy and its parent company, Sequel Youth & Family Services, will be prominently featured in the hourlong TV special on Sunday, April 4.

Tonight MSNBC aired a special, Kids Who Pay, about the privatization of foster care.  Sequel Youth & Family Services set up group homes across the U.S. to make a fortune while warehousing, abusing, mistreating and, in one case murdering a foster child “in their care.”  The video isn’t, as yet, available online.  Sequel’s most recent profit information available showed that the company was over $200 million a year.  Why some states have shut down Sequel facilities there are still a number of states with facilities still operating.  Here’s a link listing where these facilities are located:  https://craft.co/sequel-youth-and-family-services/locations?countryCodes%5B0%5D=US&page=1. 

[yerbevan]

Bernie Sanders to rally in Dearborn on Saturday

He now has stops planned in Detroit, Dearborn, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.

[iammyfather]

Millions of Flint water documents found in basement, prosecutors claim

“Among the newly discovered evidence is a list of names ominously titled ‘Phones/Wiped,' along with data from at least one cell phone that the People were told did not exist," the request says.

Amazing how as much as the Republicans keep pointing to the Democratic City Council (they overruled) as being at fault, a lot of Republicans get charged.

[stabbedinthenameofscience]

Most destructive Lake Michigan storm in over 30 years eats away up to 30 feet of dunes

A look at the damage from early week storm.

Every once in a while, we see that thing go around with a picture of Lake Michigan and people trying to argue that it’s not a lake photo, it’s really the ocean.

No, that’s a lake.

And so is this.  58mph winds.  12′ waves.  Flooded shore cities, rivers pushed backwards, houses now significantly closer to the shore...and it’s a lake.  Our lake.  I live here.

[yourreddancer]

Self-driving Tesla hits Michigan State Police car on freeway

No one was injured.

yet another self-driving Tesla crash!

[yourreddancer]

Whitmer ‘vehemently disagrees’ with Supreme Court ruling, says emergency orders remain in place for 21 days

Michigan would be the only state not to have some form of a declared emergency, she said.