Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

Uh, absolutely.

And what we've seen in the last eight years come out of Lansing is a lot of self-serving, right? We've seen scandal after scandal at things like the MEDC, the MDHHS.

M- millions of dollars, billions of dollars, have gone wasted in fraud and abuse.

Uh, some they've admitted to, some that's only come out after lawsuits.

Applications opened October 8th with a deadline of November 9th.

More information is available at Michigan.gov slash MDHHS.

A former Calvin University professor is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to review his dismissal after officiating an LGBTQ wedding in 2021.

Joseph Coloma, now a professor at Grand Valley State University, argues the university violated Michigan's Elliott Larson Civil Rights Act by not renewing his appointment in 2022.

Grand Traverse County is receiving up to $134,000 in state funding to help cover public health costs from last month's F-16 crash near Gron.

County commissioners approved the Emerging Threats Grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on October 7th.

The money will cover environmental testing, response costs, contracted work, and additional staff time.

Health officials say soil and groundwater sampling is underway with results.

Nobody's asking Jocelyn Benson where she stood when Joe Biden left our borders open.

Nobody's asking where she stood when Gretchen Whitmer kept our seniors in nursing homes, and there are more seniors, more than 3,000 died that aren't even reported, uh, on MDHHS.

No one is holding Jocelyn Benson to the same standard they're holding me, but that's okay because my mother always raised me to believe that I would have to be twice as good to be considered half as worthy, and, uh, and I think that people see that.

I think people recognize that, uh, the Democrats have been in power for eight years.

So it's $300,000 for a field agent and two neighborhood change agent jobs.

Councilmember Cost recuses himself from this vote because he is employed by the MDHHS, and this does pass 6-0.

Next, Councilmember Cost is introducing an ordinance for regulating virtual currency machines, so like cryptocurrency ATMs.

If passed, this would require disclosures and warnings to be administered by the machines, as well as penalties for violations.

I don't know.

Any wrap up thoughts from you on the meeting and the issues?

The grant from MDHHS and related to ARPA funding, that's something that we're seeing in so many communities across the state and I would assume the country where people made decisions with money from ARPA that was like, okay, great, we can do this short-term thing and didn't necessarily plan for what do we do when this money's gone because this money won't be here for forever.

And that's always, with any grant, that's a tough conversation.