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  • How a Grand Haven church is welcoming ICE detainees with full backpacks
  • Why Michigan leaders still block full public access to state records

Today's riddle: What did the little needle say to the mother needle when it brought home a failing report card? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Advocates rally to support detainees released from ICE facility in Baldwin (wzzm13.com) — A Grand Haven faith community is rallying to support immigrants released from the North Lake ICE facility in Baldwin, packing backpacks with warm clothes, hygiene items, and food at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Grand Haven. Local groups say hundreds of detainees from a Chicago ICE operation may soon be released with almost nothing, and they’re organizing donations while also calling for broader systemic change.
   

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• ‘We're just not going to do FOIA': Michigan transparency effort stalls (manisteenews.com) — Michigan lawmakers are once again stalling efforts to make the governor and Legislature subject to FOIA, leaving residents — including readers of the Grand Haven Tribune — without full access to state records. Despite bipartisan support in the Senate and past campaign promises, Speaker Matt Hall has kept key transparency bills off the House agenda, while candidates for governor now pledge broader openness.
   

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