Category: Michigan

GM Challenges Carvana With CarBravo Online Used Car Marketplace

DETROIT—General Motors Co. said it will launch a new, online used vehicle market called CarBravo that will allow the automaker and its dealers to challenge Carvana Co., Carmax Inc. and others profiting from selling secondhand vehicles. GM’s CarBravo site will aggregate vehicles owned by Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC dealers, as well as cars and trucks…


Arctic Blast Brings Wind-Chill Alerts to Northern US

Arctic air blasting across the northern tier of the United States gripped parts of the High Plains, the Upper Midwest and New England on Monday, with wind-chill alerts posted from Montana to Maine, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. The frigid air mass, ushered in behind a cold front sweeping over the East Coast into…


Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence Becomes 25th House Democrat to Retire Before 2022 Midterms

Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) on Tuesday announced that she would not seek reelection to the House this year after four terms representing Michigan’s 14th District, joining a growing list of Democrats to retire before the 2022 midterms. “Today, after reflecting on my journey—and oh, my goodness, what a journey—and having conversations with my family, I…


Michigan Gov. Whitmer Isolating After Husband Tests Positive for COVID-19

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is isolating from her husband in their home after he tested positive for COVID-19. Bobby Leddy, Whitmer’s spokesman, said the governor has had a negative rapid test result and was not experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The Democratic governor, 50, was…


Michigan Court Asked to Dismiss Suit to Stop Private Funding of Elections

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, wants Michigan communities to continue to accept millions of private dollars to help pay for elections. In 2020, the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) gave out $350 million in grants to help local election officials across America cope with complications from the CCP (Chinese Communist…


Police: Man Kills Twin, Wounds Father Before Shooting Self

TROY, Mich.—Police say they believe a 23-year-old man fatally shot his twin brother and shot and wounded their father before apparently taking his own life in suburban Detroit. A 64-year-old woman was also in the home in Troy during the shooting Monday morning but was not harmed, police said. Police responded to separate 911 calls…


Facts Matter (Dec. 22): New Bill Allows Parents, Workers to Sue Over Racist Indoctrination

In Michigan, an organization called the Public Interest Legal Foundation conducted an analysis and found nearly 26,000 dead people on the Michigan voter rolls—with the vast majority of them being marked as “active.” The organization is now in the process of suing the Michigan secretary of state to get these people removed. Meanwhile, schools around…


Former FBI Agent Pleads No Contest to Beating Wife, Avoids Jail Time

A former high-level FBI agent pleaded no contest on Monday to a charge of aggravated assault. Richard Trask worked as a special agent for the FBI for 10 years. Trask was arrested over the summer for allegedly assaulting his wife at their home in Kalamazoo County. Body camera footage and police reports showed Trask’s wife…


GM to Extend Production Halt for Chevrolet Bolt EV Through February

WASHINGTON—General Motors Co. said Monday it is extending a production halt at its Orion Assembly plant in Michigan, which makes the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle, through the end of February. The largest U.S. automaker in August widened its recall of the Bolt to more than 140,000 vehicles to replace battery modules after a series of…


Court Fight Over Dead People on Voter Lists Heats Up in Michigan

How many dead people should remain on Michigan voter rolls? The answer may be determined by a federal judge. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) on Nov. 3 sued Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, for allegedly failing to remove from the state’s voter rolls the names of 26,000 registered voters who have either died or…