West Michigan Wakeup November 4, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get you up to date 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, good morning, friends, it's schmidty. We'll start
with voting day across West Michigan and the polls officially
open at seven am closing at eight pm. Not everyone
in West Michigan has something on the ballot, but many do.

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That does include Byron Center Public Schools asking for a
one hundred and ten million dollar bond, Comstock Public Schools
also voting on a bond for infrastructure, Rockford looking at
a two hundred and thirty million dollars bond to fund
improvements to almost every building in the district, and Zealand
Public Schools proposing a bond for various infrastructure upgrades around

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the district. Now, according to the Zealand City Clerk and
many more across West Michigan, make sure that if you
have your ID out and ready, will speed up the
process and that will be the first thing you were
asked for heading to your nearest polling location. Two men
who had acquired high powered weapons and practiced at gun
ranges were scouting LGBTQ plus bars in suburban Detroit for

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a possible attack. This is according to authorities yesterday who
were filing terrorism related charges against the pair. This stems
from the big FBI takedown we heard from cash Patel earlier.
According to the report, Muhammad Ali and Mahjed Mahmud were
co conspirators inspired by Islamic state extremeism. Seventy two page

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criminal complaint unsealed in federal court. The men, described as
too young to drink, had looked at certain bars, especially
in the Ferndale area, as a possible attack. More info
at West Michigan Star dot com. President Trump's administration saying
yesterday it will partially fund SNAP for the rest of
the month of November. After two judges issued rulings requiring

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the government to keep the nation's largest food aid program running.
The USDA said they had planned to free payments starting
back on Saturday. The program serves about one in eight Americans.
The government says an emergency fund can use four point
six five billion dollars, enough to cover about half of
the normal benefits. All right, let's get into your sports mores.

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Johnson Junior scoring twenty of his career high twenty four
points in a record breaking first half for Michigan last night,
taking down Oakland one twenty one to seventy eight. They
are now ranked at number seven. Meanwhile, Jackson Cohler are
scoring sixteen points grabbing fifteen rebounds as number twenty two,

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Michigan State headed on to an eighty sixty nine victory
over Colgate, a season opener for both schools, and our
Detroit Pistons looking at a w over Memphis one fourteen
to one OHO six. Meanwhile, our Detroit Red Wings back
in action tonight taking on Vegas. You can hear that
on ninety six one, the game starting at nine forty five.
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