Andy Smits News Today

TRAVERSE CITY — The race for Grand Traverse County Drain Commissioner heated up this week when former county commissioner Ron Clous declared his candidacy for the office.

TRAVERSE CITY — Congressman Tip O’Neill famously said in 1982: “All politics is local.”

TRAVERSE CITY — Flooding is the most common and expensive natural disaster in America, accounting for two-thirds of the costs of all such disasters in the U.S., according the National

Grand Traverse County commissioners are exploring possible changes to two key county functions: the Road Commission and the Drain Commissioner’s o...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Statutory Appointment Committee formalized the schedule for the search process for Grand Traverse County’s next sheriff.

Dick Mallery is tired of quick fixes to his 50-year-flooding problem; he wants a nearby culvert replaced. But even that will only keep floodwaters away if it’s designed to withstand the new normal. As climate change brings heavier rainfall and more frequent floods to the Upper Great Lakes, our infrastructure needs an overhaul.