WSJM Morning News – January 17, 2019

  • Michigan State University interim president John Engler is done as of next Wednesday.
  • Republicans who control the Michigan Senate are making the reduction of auto insurance rates a top priority.
  • Governor Whitmer spoke about the loss of jobs with pending General Motors plant closures.
  • The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is planning to issue Food Assistance Program benefits.
  • Coming up next week will be several activities at Lake Michigan College to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Police officers and firefighters from all over southwest Michigan will take part in a Polar Plunge next weekend.
  • Michigan’s unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 4.0 percent in December.
  • We are now in Day 27 of the Government Shutdown.
  • At the U-S southern border, a large group of undocumented immigrants were taken into U-S custody.
  • As more and more drones take to the skies, seems like more and more people are taking aim at drones.