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There was no shortage of news in 2020. It felt like major stories were breaking daily, not only across the globe, but right here in Michigan. Narrowing down all of those major stories to a list of 10 was no easy task. But here are some of the biggest stories that came out of Michigan this year that you may have missed.
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Michigan Radio collaborated with a team of public radio reporters, led by APM Reports, to investigate what happened at Lakeside Academy after the death of student, Cornelius Frederick, and to learn more about the for-profit company that ran Lakeside.
Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc. is no longer the target of a lawsuit filed by state and local health departments over its failure to comply with COVID-19 guidelines because those guidelines have changed for religious organizations, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On December 18, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Teller County Public Health dismissed their case against the Woodland Park nonprofit, following a revised state public health order. “CDPHE revised its public health order to remove numerical capacity limits on houses of worship after several recent United States Supreme Court rulings concerning other states’ orders that imposed different capacity restrictions on houses of worship than on other critical businesses, according to a statement from the Colorado State Joint Information Center. Requirements previously included a limit on the number of individuals who could be present in a house of worship, similar to the limits on other ind
Alex Padilla doesn t get opportunity to answer many policy questions during MSNBC interview
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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla speaks in San Francisco. California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, as the state s next U.S. senator to fill the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)Eric Risberg/Associated Press
Padilla has served as California s Secretary of State since 2015, and as a result, has not taken public stances on the many intra-Democratic-Party debates that have emerged since then. For example, the senator-designate wants to increase access to health care, but it s unclear whether he favors the public option plan touted by President-elect Joe Biden or the Medicare for All plan authored by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
I recently dusted off my crystal ball and asked it to help me with my 2021 predictions. Hereâs how it works: If I want something to happen, I predict it to give it an extra push.
Then there are the things that I donât want to see happen, so I predict them to put the whammy on them.
Finally, there are the things that I really, really do think will happen, so I put them down. It is up to you, dear reader, to figure out which is which. Here goes:
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⢠Donald Trump will be led out of the White House by his own Secret Service detail. This, after he lights a fire under the Proud Boys and other such miscreants in an attempt to save his tenure by instigating a civil war in our streets.
Letter: Supreme Court decides to shred the 2020 U.S. election
The United States “Supreme Court” just committed the most egregious mistake in SCOTUS history.
By a 7-to-2 vote, seven of the nine “in-justices” turned their backs on their responsibility to defend and preserve the U.S. Constitution. It will put a stain on the court that will never be erased, and any decisions, down the road, will be very difficult for half of the population of the United States to ever trust future decisions or elections.
They basically allowed a DemocRAT Party to steal a presidential election, allowing that party to break the U.S. Constitution by illegally allowing four states to set up a corrupt voting system that did not follow the Constitution’s mandate that such decisions be made in their state’s House and Senate.