WSJM Morning News – February 4, 2019

  • Michigan is intervening in a federal court case to defend the Affordable Care Act.
  • Although Michigan voters approved Proposal 1 to legalize recreational marijuana, there are hundreds of communities across the state that have already instituting bans on related businesses.
  • Students don’t have to worry about last week’s blast of severe weather pushing their school year into the summer.
  • A forum on immigration will be held this week in St. Joseph.
  • A $50,000 grant has been announced for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Children with Special Needs Fund.
  • Detroit Police Chief James Craig is angry about what he calls a racially insensitive Snapchat video made by an officer after pulling over a 23-year-old woman.
  • The United Auto Workers union says it will leave “no stone unturned” in its efforts to get General Motors to change its mind about plant closings.
  • New House Speaker Lee Chatfield says Michigan will always  struggle to fund roadwork until it solves the root problem – drivers pay some of  the country’s highest taxes at the pump, but not all of the revenue goes to the  transportation budget.
  • The President plans to give what his aides call an inspiring vision of American Greatness when he delivers his state of the union address tomorrow.
  • Five people were killed Sunday afternoon when a plane crashed into a home in Orange County, California.
  • “Glass” holds first place on the slowest Super Bowl box office weekend in decades.