February saw the topic of leasing the fleet of 41 (numbers 40 and 43 have also been used) vehicles used by the City of Ludington (COL) come to the Ludington City Council for the first time.  This ambitious scheme was proposed as a means for the COL to replace its practice of buying their vehicles with the practice of leasing, and we were told the fantastic story that this would be saving us tons of money ($500,000) by the end of ten years and allow all city employees and officials to drive cars…See More

Let's say that you are a Mason County deputy and that you once served on another department and did what many people would consider totally unethical and corrupt behavior at a traffic stop.  Let's say that you did that while on camera and your police chief saw nothing wrong with it and let you keep your job without any discipline at all.  If you were a smart police officer, you would likely try to stay on that department as long as possible because you have a considerably long history of…See More

The February 23, 2026 meeting of the Ludington City Council (agenda packet) had a deceivingly full bottom-heavy docket of 18 action items, but that was primarily because it involved the routine of approving annual events sponsored by the DDA, Jaycees, and the local chamber.  They were all…See More

IntroductionThree years ago, Ludington native Evan Fargo was living the good life.  He had over a decade at doing the same job and had purchased through a land contract with his grandmother a beautiful house in the country where he resided with his own growing family.  Everything seemed to be going well in his life.Unexpectedly, his life would turn into a nightmare as…See More

An Off-duty Officer From the Ludington Police Department was pulled over by a fellow officer, from his OWN department, what happened NEXT, well has that poli...

To say that the current Hamlin Township Board of Trustees is philosophically divided would be an understatement, as one sees ample evidence of it whenever they have gone to a meeting over the last two years.  Contentious meetings have been the norm and so when one reviews the agenda packet for the February 12, 2026 meeting they see a lot of potential for conflicts,…See More

At the February 9th, 2026 meeting of the Ludington City Council, a trio of councilors made some remarks at the end of the meeting, after the time of public comment, regarding the scandalous cover-up of the Mendez incident, where an off-duty LPD officer obviously engaged in impaired driving was stopped after committing multiple traffic infractions…See More

Perhaps the only thing more uninspiring than watching a Superbowl where neither team scored a touchdown in the first three quarters of a game that wasn't competitive at all, even until the end, was the halftime show.  We will explore the entertainment, that was decidedly as uninspiring as the game itself-- but first let's look at the underlying theme which indicated that entertainment was being supplanted by a political message.  In large black letters on a white screen, we saw a disturbing…See More