8/16/2024

N. WISCONSIN - Thousands of Wisconsin businesses will receive refunds after being targeted by a business certificate scam.  This includes 20 Minocqua businesses, 15 Eagle River businesses at least 6 in Ashland and businesses in Hurley, Minocqua, Washburn, Butternut and Fifield.  Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said after an investigation, the DOJ made a judgement against two Florida-based companies and their owners in connection with the scam. The judgement requires that Centurion Filing Services LLC, also appearing as "WI Certificate Service" to pay over $3.5 million, including over $600,000 to refund businesses affected.  More than 7,000 businesses placed orders with the faulty company and will receive refunds.  The list of Wisconsin businesses that were victims of the scam is 71 pages long.

8/16/2024

UPPER MICHIGAN - The Superior Watershed Partnership has announced it is receiving a grant of $240,000 from the Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification to go toward putting electric vehicle charges in key location along the northern coast of the U.P. in order to incentivize more Michiganders to purchase electric vehicle. The project will install charging hubs in Hancock, Munising, Grand Marais, and Marquette near The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, and the Keweenaw National Historical Park. More installation projects will also be launching soon along U.S. 2 and near Ontonagon.

8/16/2024

BARAGA - Michigan State House Representative Jenn Hill introduced a bill that would remove prerequisite college credit requirements for new corrections officer recruits to help solve the staffing crisis in Michigan prisons and jails.  The current requirements for MDOC employment include having 15 college credit hours in any major to continue working as an officer. This newly proposed bill would end that.  Hill introduced the legislation after taking a tour of the Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility and speaking with staff.  Hill says she hopes to have the bill go through committee soon. Hill adds she plans to look into increasing benefits for corrections officers including possible pensions.