Michigan

Northern Michigan-based Munson Healthcare said in a Facebook post that it was treating 11 people at its medical center in Traverse City.

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Codie Carlson was bowfishing Plum Creek on Sunday, June 29, when he brought in a new state-record flathead catfish. While bowfishing recently in Monroe County, an angler from Newport, Michigan, caught a new state-record fish: a flathead catfish weighing in at 64.46 pounds and measuring 45 inches!

Codie Carlson was bowfishing Plum Creek in the early-morning hours of Sunday, June 29, when he brought in the record-breaker.

This fish beats the previous state-record flathead catfish — 53.35 pounds, 43 inches — caught in 2022 by Lloyd Tanner, of Hobart, Indiana, on the St. Joseph River in Berrien County.

While bowfishing recently in Monroe County, Codie Carlson of Newport, Michigan, caught a new state-record flathead catfish. DNR fisheries biologist John Buszkiewicz, who works out of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ Lake Erie Fisheries Management Unit, verified Carlson’s new state-record fish. Buszkiewicz and his crew may have even caught this exact fish during a survey in the same location in 2020; at the time, the fish caught weighed 55 pounds and measured 43 inches.

Carlson, a self-described "true fishoholic," said, "I thought I was about to shoot a channel catfish for dinner. Turns out, I guess we do have flathead catfish in these waters." source: MIDNR Email newsletter

Anyone seen them in circulation?

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-4027

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-4028

These two bills have been passed by the Michigan House. The 'public' purpose is to return control of permitting solar fields and wind power generators to local government. It repeals statutes that currently allow the Michigan Public Service Commission to overrule local communities for green-energy projects. As far as I know, current statute doesn't allow local communities to overrule the construction of new fossil-fuel based power plants.

There are also these two clauses in the bill as passed:

(2) A county or township shall not regulate or control the drilling, completion, or operation of oil or gas wells or other wells drilled for oil or gas exploration purposes and does not have jurisdiction with reference to the issuance of permits for the location, drilling, completion, operation, or abandonment of such wells.

(3) An ordinance shall not prevent the extraction, by mining, of valuable natural resources from any property unless very serious consequences would result from the extraction of those natural resources. Natural resources shall be considered valuable for the purposes of this section if a person, by extracting the natural resources, can receive revenue and reasonably expect to operate at a profit.

The bills are actually anti-local control when it comes to mining and oil drilling operations. These two items have been left out of talking points.