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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration has reportedly burned notes and destroyed emails from a coronavirus probe targeting the City of Port Huron for violating state rules. According to the Detroit News, state Inspector Matthew Hartman of the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) fined the City of Port Huron $6,300 after visiting on July 21 due to a complaint. The complaint reportedly alleged the city violated the state’s coronavirus rules.

Peter Brown, a professor in Western University’s physics and astronomy department, tweeted a series of photos of the spectacle. He dubbed it the Kintail fireball, for the spot near the Canadian shoreline of Lake Huron where it was believed to have crossed over before going into the water. On a map, Kintail is directly across the lake from Michigan’s Thumb. “Kintail fireball orbit from last night place origins firmly from the asteroid belt. The initial mass was somewhere between a few to ten kilograms - softball sized. Not quite as bright as the full moon," Brown posted on Twitter. Fireballs...

When cities cry poverty, the organization helping them pursue more resources from state or local taxpayers is often the Michigan Municipal League. It is interesting then to see signs that the lobbying group is doing some self-reflection, in the form of allowing a city manager with a fresh point of view to address the organization's annual meeting. “Prosperity doesn’t come from government. It comes from freedom,” Port Huron City Manager James Freed told league members who gathered in September. Freed gave the group a candid presentation on how pension and retiree health benefits were making it difficult to govern his...

JOE ALLOWAY PREDICTED WINNER OVER PAVLOV IN MICHIGAN 81 –POLL: JOE ALLOWAY’S EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE BEATS OUT PHIL PAVLOV PORT HURON, MI, July 26, 2004 (NEWSWIRE) -- The latest poll of voters in this crucial MichiganState House swing District 81 has Joe Alloway-R (Port Huron Township) the predicted winner over St. Clair’s Phil Pavlov, and Yale’s Steve Pray with a greater than 9-percent margin. The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in St. Clair County Michigan’s State Representative District 81 countywide found Alloway with a solid lead with Education, Experience and USMC background over underqualified Phil Pavlov-R (St. Clair).

Michigan District 81 State Representative Lauren Hager might be thinking: “I might have committed a felony”, after recent revelations that he violated Michigan State Campaign Finance law. Hager’s handpicked sixteen-month St. Clair County Commissioner Phil Pavlov as his successor, Pavlov might now have second thoughts in what appears to be stepping in more than “termed out” Lauren Hager’s shoes.

<p>PORT HURON,MI (JJA)20:15EST January 9,2004 - Governor Jennifer Granholm snubbed Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge during his visit to St. Clair County Michigan when he failed to meet “her” schedule today.</p> <p>His office did not release Ridge’s arrival time and how long he would be in the county. The Secretary lowered the nation’s alert level today to ELEVATED, and ordered all airports to remain on levels of HIGH alert accounting for no information from his office.</p>

9 Illegal Aliens Caught Coming Through Canada Reported by John Klekamp Police have the nine men and women in custody. The search continues for a semi-truck driver who brought r nine men and women from India through Canada. Nine men and women were picked up by police late Saturday night after they were spotted getting off the back of a truck. They were spotted by a couple of EMT workers who were in their usual spot waiting for runs. The workers were behind a Kmart store at 23 Mile Road and Gratiot. They spotted something suspicious, people climbing out the...