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Owosso, hate has no home here. Next Saturday, we come together to celebrate love, community, inclusion, and PRIDE at Owosso Pride!

Many of you know me as the drag queen who hosts Drag Queen Storytime, but outside of performing, I’ve proudly worked as a public school educator for over 10 years. Throughout my career, I’ve taught Special Education, K-12 Music, and grades 1st through 5th. One thing I’ve always believed in is simple: treat people the way you want to be treated.Drag performers are entertainers, community members, educators, and human beings deserving of the same kindness and respect as anyone else.

Pride is about creating a space where everyone feels safe, welcomed, and celebrated exactly as they are.

We invite you to come experience the joy for yourself at Owosso Pride next Saturday!

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And don’t miss the official 18+ After Party at the Owosso Sideline! Karaoke Trivia Drag Performances Dancing & Fun All Night Long

Let’s show what community really looks like. Love will always shine brighter than hate. Grab your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/owosso-pride-after-party-karaoke-trivia-and-drag-show-tickets-1985722200556

A few months back, I told you about a petition drive that some of Michigan's most powerful corporations were hoping that you would never hear about since that, and that video has been watched more than 750 000 times, which helped me. A lot of people are paying attention. I've got an update and it's a big one.

This is so what, Michigan, where we cut through the noise and explain what's really at stake for Michigan voters. Here's the deal. The group behind the petition is called michiganders for money out of politics or mmop for short. Their goal and political donations from utility companies like DTE and consumers Energy band corporations with state government contracts from donating to the lawmakers who oversee them and force dark money groups to disclose who's actually funding their political ads to make the November ballot, they needed just over 356 000 signatures by May 27th, and officials say they had nearly 100, 000 more than they need.

https://miunited.org/en/michiganders-for-money-out-of-politics-mmop/

They're planning to turn them in, but here's something worth knowing. This proposal is still facing some major resistance from some very powerful opponents and. In consumers, this ban on political donations would also cover businesses with state government contracts worth more than 250 thousand dollars, and that includes Blue Cross Blue Shield.

It's the largest health insurer in which contracts with the state for Medicaid and state employee health insurance and reportedly operates a political action committee that spent more than 550 000 in 2024 alone, collectively Blue Cross, DTE, and consumer suspend millions of dollars, lying the campaign accounts of our state lawmakers.

Meanwhile, our costs have climbed, and their profits have soared. Reports show that both parties have been cashing in on this system. So, why does this still matter even if they've collected enough signatures? Because making the ballot is just step one under Michigan law. Once the petition qualifies, the legislature gets the first crack at it.

They can pass it, directly reject it, and send it to voters or put it competing. Alternative measure on the ballot alongside it, and given how much money flows from these corporations to Lansing and? Make sure to just wave this one through. You want to sign the petition before the May 27th deadline.

Go to their website. Additional signatures still send a strong message. So, what we'll show more than 80 percent of michiganders support Banning these kinds of political donations. The campaign says. It has the signatures to make the ballot, but now it heads into a legislature that has been bankrolled by the very interest this proposal would cut off.

https://www.facebook.com/MichiganMOP/

Anti-gay bigotry will be on full display at tonight’s city council meeting! Members of the “religious right” will all be coming with prepared remarks to council tonight. Please come and offer a positive message of pride and the welcoming community we want Owosso to keep developing during citizen comments. The hate cannot be the only voice in the room tonight! 6:30pm at City Hall!

"Just to curb gossip, we bought it from the people who just owned it. We had nothing to do with "kicking anyone out". Large Retail/Bakery/Deli space for rent on the cornerstone of Downtown Owosso!! Corner of Main and Washington! Ask for a viewing , appx 2400 sq ft with basement and 3 compartment sink/mop sink/hand washing sinks, 2 bathrooms and remodel ready!"

Jerri Rugg

What happened to the Italian restaurant we heard was moving in there?

Amy Lockwood

Jerri Rugg Cottage Inn Pizza??? Good question!

Tiffanie Latunski

It was supposed to be an Italian restaurant named Sapori

Jerri Rugg

Tiffanie Latunski Yes I couldn’t remember the name of it, but I knew it wasn’t Cottage Inn Pizza. It was supposed to be an aut… See more

James Brian Jenks

Amy Lockwood. Cottage Inn is supposed to be the next block down.

Gary Herald

Wasn't Sappori suppose to go in there

Melanie Roberts

Gary Herald I think a family emergency came up and derailed the plans

Gary Herald

Melanie Roberts oh that's too bad

Joanie Welch Lawrence

Wow what a great deal for this space!!!

David Wilson Stockinger

What happened to the The restaurant going in there?

Ann Fox-Eno

David Wilson Stockinger they did not make it due to family issues and we bought it.

David Wilson Stockinger

Ann Fox-Eno oh okay

Vickie Hoshield

And they kicked out a good business

Ann Fox-Eno

Vickie Hoshield may want to get your "facts" straight. We had nothing to do with what the previous owners did or didn't do, but thank you for the unnecessary slander

Michigan’s temperature pattern is about to seem like the summer switch has just been turned on. Monday and Tuesday are going to be hot days by mid-May standards here in Michigan.

A storm system hanging west of Michigan Sunday into Monday will create a stiff southwest wind. The wind blowing from the southwest will bring us early summer heat more typical of the southern Plains states like Kansas and Oklahoma.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a civil rights law with her gay daughter standing beside her. She banned conversion therapy. She showed up at Pride when it mattered most. And now, as her time as governor comes to an end, she has a message for Michigan's LGBTQ+ community: she's not going anywhere.

She's also the mom who buys all the rainbow stuff — and whose daughter responds with "Gretchen, you're ridiculous."

Pride Source Executive Editor Chris Azzopardi sat down with Governor Gretchen Whitmer — in her home — for an intimate, wide-ranging conversation about her eight-year LGBTQ+ legacy, what her daughter Sherry has taught her about allyship and the fights still ahead.

See the full interview here: https://youtu.be/ijdeBWuqO2Q.

A new investigation dubbed “Hondurasgate” claims leaked audio recordings tie Donald Trump, Argentine President Javier Milei, and former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández to an alleged effort to create a fake news operation designed to destabilize the governments of Mexico and Colombia.

According to the report in EL PAÍS, Hernández allegedly discussed setting up a digital media “cell” in the United States — funded with hundreds of thousands of dollars — to push disinformation targeting Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and political opponents in Honduras.

The recordings reportedly came from WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram chats and were analyzed using forensic voice authentication tools used by intelligence agencies around the world.

The allegations go even further, with claims that Trump’s pardon of Hernández was tied to a broader political arrangement involving international right-wing networks and allies connected to Israel.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she listened to the recordings and warned about what she described as an international network spreading fake news campaigns against progressive governments.

I remember! And yes it was in the school gym:)

That sugar cube was the smallest thing and the biggest thing at exactly the same time.

You stood in that gymnasium line in your good clothes because your mother had dressed you carefully that morning, the way she dressed you for church or for something that mattered. And this mattered. You didn't fully understand why yet — you were seven, you were focused on the sugar cube — but you could feel it in the way the adults around you were acting. Quieter than usual. Straighter than usual. Grateful in a way that had some weight to it.

Your parents remembered the summers before. The public pools closed without warning. The movie theaters shuttered. Parents kept children inside and away from crowds and watched the news and prayed with a specific and desperate focus. They knew kids who had been taken by it. They knew families who had come home from the hospital different than they left. They knew what an iron lung looked like and they never wanted to see one again.

And then came the sugar cube. One small, ordinary, sweet little cube handed to you by a nurse in a white cap in a school gymnasium — and just like that, the thing that had haunted an entire generation of parents simply stopped being something they had to fear for their children.

Your mother watched you swallow it and she didn't make a fuss. She just put her hand on your shoulder and steered you back toward the door. But if you were paying attention, you saw her face.

Do you remember that line?