By Jon King | Editor-in-Chief
Quoted and Noted
"We welcome these charges because they show the system works."
– Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson after five noncitizens who allegedly voted in the 2024 general election, and one U.S. citizen who allegedly attempted to register her noncitizen husband to vote, were charged by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Sign for Related Digital’s hyperscale data center, known as “The Barn”, in Saline Township, Michigan. June 20, 2026. | Photo by Jon King/Michigan Advance
By Kyle Davidson
Following the Saline Township Board of Trustees’ decision to sign off on a property tax abatement for a controversial hyperscale data center under development by Oracle, OpenAI and Related Digital, one resident and her attorney are calling on the Michigan State Tax Commission to deny the request.
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By Katherine Davidson
When Shane Veltkamp, now 31, entered the Newaygo County Jail in July 2023, he was fully mobile, independent and able to care for himself, although he would be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS, while detained, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the county and healthcare workers at both the county jail and statewide facilities.
The office of Attorney General Dana Nessel in the G. Mennen Williams Building in Lansing, Mich., on May 15, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance)
By Katherine Dailey
Five non-citizens allegedly voted in the 2024 general election, and one U.S. citizen allegedly attempted to register her non-citizen husband to vote, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
On August 17, 1923 (103 years ago today) Henry Ford’s yacht arrived in Escanaba carrying Ford, Thomas Edison and what other notable figure for a camping trip in the Upper Peninsula?
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in later for the answer.
Friday's answer: The 475-foot tall Book Tower was the tallest building in Detroit at the time of its completion in 1926. The 565-foot Penobscot Building overtook it two years later and was Detroit’s tallest structure until 1977 when the Renaissance Center, at 727 feet, took that title.
Source: https://www.detroithistorical.org
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