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COVID-19 Safety Requirements in the Maritime
Transportation System

The President issued Executive Order (13998), Promoting COVID-19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel that requires masks be worn on all “public maritime vessels, including ferries” to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued order, Requirement for Persons to Wear Masks while […]

Gov Whitmer opens up about Trump

Governor Gretchen Whitmer goes on the record saying she wished she could have arrested former President Donald Trump. In a recent interview with the magazine “Hour Detroit,” Gov. Whitmer laughed boisterously at the prospect of having arrest President Trump when his campaign rallies allegedly violated her coronavirus orders. The governor […]

Controversy hits Michigan GOP before leadership vote

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — There’s a civil war inside the Michigan Republican Party. Laura Cox had planned to step down as chairwoman Saturday but now wants to keep the job a little longer while she accuses a possible successor of misconduct when he led the party in 2018. Cox said […]

Keith Clegg recognized for outstanding service at KCF

Kinross Correctional Facility Warden Michael Brown recently presented Sergeant Keith Clegg with a Good Government Symbol of Teamwork Coin for both his extraordinary hard work and his support of his KCF co-workers. “Sgt. Clegg is a team player always offering his assistance in any way he can,” Warden Brown said. […]

State To Let Contact Sports Resume

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will announce today that the state is allowing contact sports to resume, with some safeguards, following one of the more intense waves of opposition her administration has seen in response to its efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, EUP News has learned. Contact sports have […]

Lake Superior State University Receives $950,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance Grant to Support Economic Diversification Efforts in Michigan Opportunity Zone

Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Lake Superior State University received a $956,858 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce to purchase lab equipment to build capacity at the Center for Freshwater Research and Education (CFRE). The project, to be located […]

MDOC Workers: Gov Must Restore Lost Paid Time Off

Employees with the Department of Corrections are calling on Governor Gretchen Whitmer to restore personal leave time and wages lost due to mandated quarantine procedures because of close contacts with a person possibly infected with the coronavirus. Members of the Michigan Corrections Organization, the union for corrections officers, in an […]

Group Files Lawsuit To Force Winter Contact Sports Restart

Let Them Play – the group of student-athletes and advocates wanting to allow winter contact sports to begin competing – filed a lawsuit today in the Court of Claims against Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel claiming several violations of the state and U.S. constitutions along with […]