Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) husband is being criticized for allegedly requesting that his boat be placed in the water in Northern Michigan before Memorial Day weekend.Facebook posts from NorthShore Dock LLC and its owner, Tad Dowker, said the company received a request from Whitmer’s husband, Marc Mallory, last week, even as the governor had…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer acknowledged Tuesday that her husband dropped her name while requesting to get their boat in the water ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, though claimed her husband’s comments were a “failed attempt at humor.”Whitmer’s comments came after her office initially pushed back against the story, saying they’re “not going to make it…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Michigan GOP state Sen. Tom Barrett claimed Tuesday that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her staff "duped" him "into a cover-up" after the governor's office "adamantly denied" that Whitmer's husband had tried to use her position to convince a dock company to quickly…
The owner of a boat service company said the husband of Michigan's governor dropped her name while pleading to get his boat in the water for Memorial Day weekendMay 26, 2020, 5:14 PM2 min readELK RAPIDS, Mich. -- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's husband urged a business to get his boat in the water in time…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faced backlash from Republican lawmakers after a reported request from her husband to get the family's boat out on the water before Memorial Day weekend -- far from their home in Lansing.Whitmer, a Democrat, famously has imposed…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…