WSJM Morning News – January 3, 2019

  • Governor Whitmer has signed her first executive directive, aimed at protecting the public’s health, safety and welfare.
  • The legislative goals for new state Representative Pauline Wendzel for northern Berrien County remain unchanged from what she ran on last year.
  • A property foreclosure lawsuit headed to the Michigan Supreme Court is being watched closely by county treasurers across the state.
  • Two new state laws exempt part-time student workers at community colleges in Michigan from the state teacher’s retirement system.
  • A new year brings a new chief of police for Benton Township.
  • The sprawling 81-acre property Muhammad Ali once called home in southwest Michigan has a new owner.
  • Michigan’s new governor and attorney general are moving quickly to review the legality of a contentious state deal to run an oil pipeline beneath a crucial section of the Great Lakes.
  • Democrats taking control of the House today will bring up a bill to try and reopen the government.
  • The taxman’s coming. And there’s one way to prepare for what will be here…before you know it.
  • Comic Bob Einstein, perhaps best-known for playing the stuntman character Super Dave Osborne, has died at age 76.