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Posts from the ‘Dissecting the Local News’ Category

0June 29, 2026Where candidates for Michigan’s 29th District state Senate seat stand on immigration policy and ICE

0June 17, 2026Channel 8 story on campaign to get the City of Grand Rapids to adopt 6 sanctuary policies is inaccurate and primarily relies on comments from the Mayor

0June 10, 2026Kent County Sheriff’s Office says Flock cameras are being destroyed, then lectures people on how to protest through “appropriate channels”

0May 25, 2026The Grand River restoration was always going to be about ways to make money and expand the wealth of those who control Grand Rapids

0April 8, 2026The Microsoft Corporation is presenting so-called commitments to the residents of Gaines Township to gain approval for a new data center

0April 3, 2026The unedited response from the mother of Da’Quain Johnson when the news media asked what she thought of the decision by the Kent County Prosecutor to not charge GRPD cops

1March 24, 2026More data center coverage dominated by a corporate perspectives in West Michigan

0March 23, 2026Grand Rapids is moving towards a mediaopoly with WOODTV8’s parent company purchase of WZZM 13

6February 24, 2026Free Byron Press Conference news coverage and omissions: Another ICE arrest with GRPD collaboration

0February 17, 2026Don’t expect much from the performative letter and visit from Rep. Scholten and Stevens regarding the GEO Group-owned Northlake ICE Detention Facility