By Jon King | Editor-in-Chief
Quoted and Noted
"City resources should not be used to support ICE’s violence, transit and lawless actions." - Nerida Aviles, an organizer with Movimiento Cosecha GR, on the group’s claim that the Grand Rapids Police Department is coordinating with federal immigration authorities, including ICE, despite city policies against doing so.
Michiganders for Money Out of Politics submitted its signatures in Lansing to make the November 2026 ballot. May 27, 2026. | Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance.
By Minnah Arshad
Voters will decide whether to upend campaign finance in Michigan when they head to the polls in November as outrage over money in politics intensifies pressure for reform.
The candidates, the ballot measures, and the tools you need to cast your vote, brought to you by the reporting of Michigan Advance.
Jeff Smith, an organizer with GR Rapid Response to ICE, speaks alongside other anti-ICE advocates to demand the city’s police department stop cooperating with ICE agents. Aug. 11, 2026. | Photo by Katherine Dailey/Michigan Advance.
By Katherine Dailey
Immigrant rights advocates gathered in the lobby of Grand Rapids City Hall on Tuesday afternoon to state their claim that the Grand Rapids Police Department is coordinating with federal immigration authorities, including ICE, despite city policies against doing so.
U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) introduces a panel at the Michigan State University Research Foundation’s 2026 Mobility Summit centered on mobility technology in national defense. Aug. 11, 2026 | Photo by Kyle Davidson/Michigan Advance
By Kyle Davidson
As researchers, entrepreneurs and executives gathered in East Lansing to discuss developments in transportation technology, U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) dropped in to share some brief remarks on how these advancements tie in to national defense.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
What Saginaw County city was originally called Big Rock, but changed its name to the Indigenous name for “a big rock”?
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in at noon for the answer.
Tuesday's answer: On August 11, 1971, in an operation at Detroit’s Sinai Hospital, Haskell Shanks became the first American to receive a mechanical heart pump. (He died 3 months later from kidney failure)
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/
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