Focus next week on driver behavior around school buses
To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, police officers across Michigan will be ramping up patrols next week looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. “Operation Safe Stop” is a statewide enforcement campaign that will be conducted Monday through Friday of next week in conjunction with National School Bus Safety Week. Participating police agencies will work with their local school districts during this week to provide education and enforcement for their communities. OSS enforcement efforts will focus on drivers who ignore the flashing red lights ...
Why people resist modern vaccines a mystery
It’s hard to understand why parents or adult guardians refuse to get their children vaccinated. It’s a puzzling problem that medical experts seem unable to crack: convincing all parents that immunizing their children against diseases that we thought were long gone generations ago. There has long been a cottage industry of sorts of vaccine doubters, which has grown exponentially with the widespread advent of the internet. Anti-vaxers, as those folks are sometimes called, can cite chapter and verse of statistics that show how dangerous vaccines are and how parents are putting their ...
AG’s office warns of scam with ‘prop money’
The state is warning of a scam involving Facebook Marketplace and similar platforms — and if this one sounds like something out of the movies, it's because it is. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has reissued a consumer alert after numerous social media reports surfaced of Michigan residents being paid with realistic “prop money” marked as “For Motion Picture Purposes” for items sold on Facebook Marketplace and similar platforms. While the Department of Attorney General has not yet received direct consumer complaints, it is aware of multiple reports involving sellers ...