By Jon King | Editor-in-Chief
Quoted and Noted
“The brazenness of it, that tells me that this is a systemic problem that is at least getting distant approval from higher up.” - Maura Battersby, an attorney representing Dylan Leenheer, a member of the Gun Lake Tribe, who is suing MDOC after alleging his prisoner ID was altered with offensive racial stereotypes.
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 Kyle Davidson
An effort to bar certain utilities and government contractors from making political contributions cleared its final major hurdle Monday, finalizing its language for the November ballot.
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Department of Corrections | Susan J. Demas
By Katherine Dailey
A corrections officer at Newberry Correctional Facility in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula digitally altered a Native American prisoner’s ID to depict him wearing a feathered headdress, stereotypical Indigenous attire and facial paint, a lawsuit filed in Michigan state court in early August alleges.
The General Motors corporate logo shines from the Hudson’s Detroit building Friday, October 10, 2025 after being affixed overnight to the company’s future global headquarters in downtown Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by John F. Martin for General Motors)
COMMENTARY
By Rick Haglund
For seven decades, the massive, neoclassical General Motors Building served as the headquarters of what at one time was the world’s largest industrial corporation.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
What Michigan town was named after an uncle of one of its founders, who was also the namesake of a college in New York’s Hudson Valley?
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in later in the day for the answer.
Monday's answer: On August 17, 1923, Henry Ford’s yacht arrived in Escanaba carrying Ford, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone for a camping trip in the Upper Peninsula. During the trip, Firestone tested the first balloon tires.
Source: https://northernmichiganhistory.com
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