| July 27, 2021 
 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer stood alongside Ypsilanti homeowners and community leaders at an Ypsilanti senior center Monday to sign Senate Bill 27, a wide-ranging, $384.7 million supplemental budget measure aimed largely at relief funding to help communities rebound from the pandemic and recover from flooding that hit southeast Michigan last month. The bill divvies up federal COVID-19 recovery funds and state general funds to bring additional resources to emergency and disaster mitigation, hospitals, nursing homes, child development, care program providers and local police. About $10 million will go toward disaster relief related to the flooding that hit the region in June. READ MORE  Attorneys general in Michigan and Oregon have filed a joint amicus brief in litigation against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which alleges the federal government improperly removed gray wolf endangered species protection. In a July 23 filing in U.S. District Court in Northern California, the two attorneys general argue that FWS unlawfully removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in January during the final weeks of the Trump administration. That decision enabled states such as Wisconsin to hold a gray wolf hunting and trapping season in February in which at least 218 wolves were killed in less than three days. READ MORE  In 2015, then-Attorney General Bill Schuette announced a new lawsuit: a bid to shut down the Mandatory Poster Agency, a company known nationally for soliciting businesses for products or services they mostly didn’t need or could get elsewhere for free. He didn’t mince words. “I will not tolerate companies that seek to take advantage of Michigan citizens and get rich on the backs of hard-working entrepreneurs through trickery and deception,” Schuette said in a press release. You can dig deeper into the story by checking out the latest episode of our investigative podcast, Mandatory: LISTEN HERE ►Subscribe to Mandatory on Spotify
 There are just two days left before NBA commissioner Adam Silver announces who the Detroit Pistons will select with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 Draft. Time will show if the Pistons take consensus top pick Cade Cunningham or if general manager Troy Weaver brokers a deal worthy of the No. 1 pick. If the Pistons take Cunningham on Thursday, the Oklahoma State guard has already started to build a connection to the city of Detroit. “I love Detroit,” Cunningham said. “I’ve already been listening to Detroit music and things like that, way before the draft lottery, any of that stuff. I was already hip to the culture in Detroit. READ  When the Ann Arbor City Council voted to conclude City Administrator Tom Crawford’s employment last week, council members said he agreed to step down. But for weeks after being accused of making insensitive remarks about women and minorities, including people of color and gay people, Crawford still hoped there was a way he could keep his job and continue to lead city hall. In response to an independent investigation that concluded he violated city policy, Crawford told the mayor and council in a letter he was deeply remorseful and committed to being a more sensitive and inclusive leader. FULL STORY Get your local news 24/7 Connect with MLive
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