West Michigan Wakeup November 18, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Star one oh five point seven, West Michigan's Christmas station
the news you need to start your day. It's the
West Michigan Wake Up, powered by Minards on Star one
oh five point seven. Well after lifting the ban on
all alcohol sales nearly twenty years ago, Zealand City leaders
now voted to allow for its sale on Sundays. The

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decision comes after several meetings and public hearings on the
proposed change, and its passage was a near unanimous vote yesterday.
According to council member Bung Lamb, it's about giving future
and current business businesses options.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Not forcing anyone to be open. It's not forc someone
to open their establishments at the the day. We want
to give that flexibility and that option. So it was
really more driven by like our focus and like really
growing our business and really helping you our down to
helping anytime we can give an option as opportunity.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
The council tells Wood TV. The ordinance will go into
effect December eighteenth. Pessimism about the country's future has risen
across America since last year. However, rural America more optimistic
about what's ahead. This is all part of the brand
new survey from the American Communities Project, and there is
one single issue they saw unite across the country how

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much your house will be spending on things. According to
Dante Cheney, founder of the American Communities Project, concerns about
inflation are across the board. It's one thing that truly
unites the country economic angst. It's actually very fascinating to read.
West Michigan Star dot com and DoorDash is now alerting
customers they have had a breach of user info. In

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a news release, they said they traced a social engineering
scam that targeted an employee at DoorDash, and so far
there's no indication data has been misused for fraud or
identity theft. However, the stolen information did belong to customers, dashers,
and merchants. They're saying things including full names, phone numbers, emails,

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and physical home addresses have been compromised, but things like
social security numbers and driver's license info does not look
like they were taken. Please make sure that you check
your bank account if you are one of those Dash customers.
Taking a look at sports Man oh Man, the Pistons
are back, Boy oh Boy, winning their tenth straight game

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last night, beating the NBA worst Indiana Pacers one twenty
seven to one twelve, and we've got a packed night
of sports tonight. MSU hoops Back in Action taken on Kentucky.
Can hear that on Big One on one point three.
The Red Wings taken on Seattle ninety six won the
game and the Pistons with another game taken on Atlanta.

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