By Ben Solis | Senior Reporter
Quoted and Noted
“It is noteworthy that the majority did not weigh in on whether the ballroom project was in fact legal.”
- Brent Leggs, president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, after the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a lower court order that halted construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House East Wing ballroom project.
Vice President JD Vance speaking in Sterling Heights, Michigan on Aug. 31, 2026. (Courtesy of C-SPAN)
By Ben Solis
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Monday did not even once mention the nation’s ongoing trade war with Canada — and The White House’s politically charged renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America as a result — during a visit to Sterling Heights aimed at boosting President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates in Michigan.
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Demolition work continued where the East Wing once stood at the White House on Dec. 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump ordered the 123-year-old East Wing and Jacqueline Kennedy Garden leveled to make way for a ballroom. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Ashley Murray - States Newsroom
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump does not have to follow a lower court order to stop aboveground construction on his $400 million East Wing ballroom, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision, all but guaranteeing work on the new complex will continue to accelerate.
Ambassador Bridge (Photo by Ken Coleman/Michigan Advance)
COMMENTARY
By Rick Haglund
President Donald Trump’s trade fight with Canada isn’t about our northern neighbor not playing fair. Rather, it’s the story of a bumbling president desperate for a win. He sees Canada as a weak economic target and thinks he can crush it.
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
What Detroit institution first opened its doors on Jefferson Avenue on Sept. 1, 1888 (138 years ago today)? It later moved to bigger digs on Woodward Avenue.
Let us know @michiganadvance on Bluesky and check back in later today for the answer.
Monday's answer: After 10 days of broadcasting music, Detroit radio station 8MK broadcast the very first radio news program on August 31, 1920.
Source: https://www.historyofinformation.com/
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