“Cottage food” entrepreneurs like Smitty’s Hot Sludge makers Kathy Smith, left, and Peggy Reyers, center, are now subject to fewer state regulations.
Grand Traverse County Traverse City, MI
“Cottage food” entrepreneurs like Smitty’s Hot Sludge makers Kathy Smith, left, and Peggy Reyers, center, are now subject to fewer state regulations.
The lawsuit claimed the 700-member union was disputing steps the city took to ensure the contract would expire in hopes of gaining an automatic one-year extension.
Four Republican candidates for the congressional seat that once belonged to President Gerald R. Ford tried to invoke him Thursday as they debated in an auditorium at Ford’s presidential museum.
Another candidate in the race to replace Vern Ehlers expects the Club for Growth will target him next.
The Cascade Township Republican seeking the 3rd District Congressional seat has been the only “no” vote on 59 bills in his first term in the 110-member Michigan House, more than any other state lawmaker.
The other four candidates in the Republican primary race have indicated they will attend.
The new feature registers when a request for an absentee ballot is received, when the ballot was sent out and when the election clerk has received the returned ballot.
Paul Mayhue, a social worker and former Kent County commissioner and Patrick Miles Jr., a lawyer at Dickinson Wright, are vying for the Democratic nomination on the Aug. 3 ballot. The winner will face one of five Republicans on the ballot.
Three candidates, state Sen. Bill Hardiman, state Rep. Justin Amash and civic leader Steve Heacock, have mounted strong campaigns that are expected to go through more than $1 million by the Aug. 3 election. Other Republicans seeking the GOP nomination are political novices Bob Overbeek of Wyoming and Louise “Ellie” Johnson of Plainfield Township.
Mr. Blakeslee, Rockford’s former mayor, county commissioner and unofficial photographer, died at his home at Bishop Hills Elder Care Community on Friday. He was 95.