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July 31, 2025
WOODTV8 story is full of misinformation and centers Mayor LaGrand over the 2 hours of public comment demanding Sanctuary policies in response to ICE terrorism
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July 29, 2025
New 6 month local news study exposes how the local news fails the public
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June 18, 2025
Local news coverage of last night’s ICE Out of GR rally fails to provide context and misses the mark on what a sanctuary policy would mean for Grand Rapids
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June 8, 2025
Action Alert: Contact WZZM 13 for their unwillingness to believe what Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE had to say about what happened at the ISAP office
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June 7, 2025
Local News Media demonstrates it’s subservience to the GRPD once again regarding the monitoring of immigrants
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June 2, 2025
US Government Agency report on Line 5 provides conflicting messages, but seems to green light the Line 5 tunnel that the Enbridge Corporation is pushing
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May 18, 2025
“We had to destroy the art community in Grand Rapids, now we want to control it”, is what I take from the DeVos Institute’s strategy
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May 15, 2025
Chief Winstrom is now saying that Patrick Lyoya was killed because the GRPD was understaffed
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April 27, 2025
Local news coverage leading up to Schurr’s trial has been influenced by his lawyers, experts, a failure to provide community voices and a pro-GRPD bias
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April 7, 2025
Local media coverage for the 3rd anniversary of the GRPD’s killing of Patrick Lyoya perpetuates a biased narrative and seemingly disinterested coverage
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