Stimulus checks could come next week after House, Senate approve $900B bill
By FOX 2 Staff
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - The United States Senate and House have agreed on a $900 billion stimulus bill to assist Americans and other businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, it means a bit more money in your account and it could arrive before the new year.
Congress passed the $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night that finally delivers long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Congress passes second COVID-19 relief bill
Here s a breakdown of what s included in the package
Lawmakers send Meijer tax break bill to governor
Lansing Legislation headed to the governor s desk would create a tax break for automated equipment at a Lansing-area Meijer distribution site.
The three-bill package would change Michigan tax law to exempt from sales, use and property taxes automated consumer goods handling systems that sort and recombine products into pallets for storage at distribution sites and eventual shipment to stores.
The tax exemption would apply to similar machinery at distribution sites statewide, but Meijer anticipates an immediate effect at its Delta Township distribution facility where the company is planning a multimillion-dollar expansion, John VanFossen, of Meijer, told lawmakers Wednesday.
https://www.hangthecensors.com/481419.html (Natural News) Democratic Rep. Cynthia Johnson of the Michigan House of Representatives is being heavily criticized for a video wherein she called for violence to be done to “Trumpers.”
Johnson, in a live stream she did on Facebook, called on her supporters, whom she called “Trumpers” to “Make them pay.”
“So, this is just a warning to you Trumpers,” she said, “Be careful. Walk lightly. We ain’t playing with you. Enough of the shenanigans. Enough is enough. And for those of you who are soldiers, you know how to do it. Do it right. Be in order. Make them pay.”
This year’s Meeting Ground Christmas edition features the works of poets from New Zealand and Jamaica. For this first instalment, the featured Jamaican poets are in the diaspora but born and mostly raised in Jamaica. In their work is the dialogue between the Jamaican Christmas past and the American Christmas present, reminding us, too, of Claude McKay’s “Flame Heart”, with the poinsettias red, blood-red in warm December. Here’s to a heart-warming Christmas and blissful reading!
– Ann-Margaret Lim (Jamaica)
Kia Ora (Welcome in Maori). It is a great pleasure for us poets in New Zealand to be sharing poetry and Manawa (Breath) with our brothers and sisters in Jamaica at this time of the year. We share so much common ground in our island nations – the love of the sea, mountains and friendly faces. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Arohanui (much love and deep affection).
Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Republican leaders in the Michigan House stripped a Black Democratic lawmaker of her committee assignments Wednesday because she took to social media to warn “Trumpers,” after saying she had received at least one racist threat that she should be lynched.
Rep. Cynthia Johnson, of Detroit, sits on a GOP-led committee that heard baseless allegations of widespread election fraud from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others last week. Johnson reported getting multiple threats after the hearing, including one in which a Texas man told her to “rot in hell” and threatened to burn several crosses in her yard and hang a noose from her tree.