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The polls have closed, and Gary Stevens chats with colleague Ed Ver Schure at the Pete Hoekstra post-election party at Hudsonville's Pinnacle Center.
Today's Headlines: Girl Dies in Marne Home; National Night Out in Holland Tonight; Stretch Drive Now for Political Candidates, with previews of Congressional, State Senate, and Allegan Co. Jail Millage races and proposals; Tigers and White Sox Take Monday Off, White Sox and Whitecaps Play Tonight.
Gary Stevens chats with State Senate Candidate Tim O'Donnell (R-Spring Lake) on Aug. 2, 2010.
Gary Stevens chats with Congressional Candidate Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) on the eve of the Primary Election, Aug. 2, 2010.
Today's Headlines: Ottawa Co. Fair Continues; Riemersma Under Attack from Second Opponent; Holland Mayor “Saddened” by Negative Campaigning; Ottawa Co. Road Scene of Two Motorcycle Accidents; Allegations Fly in Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Cleanup; Wayland Man Abducts Kids, Surrenders; Tigers Hope Boston is More Hospitable Than Tampa Bay.
Gary Stevens chats with U.S. House Representative and GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Pete Hoekstra (R-Holland) about the campaign during his weekly phone conversation on July 29, 2010.
Gary Stevens chats with Ottawa County Fair Board President Earl Welling on July 29, 2010.
Today's Headlines: Distraught Man Surrenders After Shooting Up TV, Computer; Ottawa Co. Board Approves Pay Cuts, Freezes; Day Three of Ottawa Co. Fair; Oil Spill Generating Fears Downstream; Michigan Eliminated from "Race to the Top"; Michigan's Struggling Economy Hurting Children; Tigers Try Again to Win at Tampa Bay.
Michigan has once again been eliminated from the "Race To The Top" competition for federal education grant money. Educational reforms had passed the Legislature and were signed into law by the Governor earlier this year, in part to make Michigan more attractive for this program. Now that this state has swung and missed twice in this competition, does it mean that the reforms should now be rescinded, or that the reforms weren’t a good idea? State Senator Wayne Kuipers of Holland, chair of the Senate Education Committee, talked with News Director Gary Stevens about that.
Roughly 840 thousand gallons of oil from a pipeline which sprung a leak this week near Marshall has been found in Kalamazoo County. Could the spill reach the Lakeshore? Allegan County officials say that the oil spill is not expected to get all the way downstream to the mouth of the river near Saugatuck. Measures are being taken to stop the oil at a cosmetic dam and retention pond at Otsego, or at the Consumers Energy hydroelectric dam on Lake Allegan. Still, concerns are there, according to Republican State Representative Bob Genetski of Saugatuck, who talked about the matter with WHTC News Director Gary Stevens.
