Trending News October 14, 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning new Steve Kelly, Bret Kata,
Lawrence Smith. It is Tuesday, October fourteen, twenty twenty five.
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to Michigan and the communities we serve what's not.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Online and what talked now at Woodradio dot how. This
is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
President Trump returns from that trip to the Middle East
after Israel and Hamas signed part one of that historic
peace deal to return all the hostages and prisoners and
and the Warren Gozen. When asked about whether Gosins would
ultimately gain sovereignty, President telling reporters.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
A lot of people like the one state solution, some
people like the two state solutions.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
We'll have to see Egypt's president supporting a two state
solution that is a separate Palestinian state branching off from Israel.
We'll keep posted. Also, yesterday, SpaceX carried out its eleventh
Starship test flights this year alone. The largest and most
powerful rocket that SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to use

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to carry the first humans to Mars successfully launched from Starbase,
Texas last night. More about that coming up on the
program a little bit later on seven forty five. Roroy
O'Neil has some things to add and the Washington Post
editorial Board published in opinion last week claiming that the
Affordable Care Act isn't working as Americans have come to believe.

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Here is Representative Greg Stubich.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Ever since Obamacare got pass obviously, conservative Republicans like myself
don't support it because of the high cost to taxpayers,
and you're now seeing those bills come due.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Democrats asking for over a trillion dollars in Medicaid funding
and an extension for Obamacare tax credits. More Atwoodradio dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Also turning this morning if you're on the hunt for
yours soon to be college student, wallet Hub is out
with the top higher education institutions in the state. Oh
Boy coming in at number three, Hope College very well done,
Number two, Kalamazoo College number one. U of M. I mean,

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that's really great for them, Michigan State University rounding out
at number ten, with other big names like m Michigan Tech,
University of Detroit, Mercity Mercy, and Spring Arbor. Best college
in the country Princeton. Really that's while it helps says
that they had seven different categories they looked at. So
if that's any help, there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I'm guessing affordability wasn't one of.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Them seemed to be best.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, well, k college can cost a pretty penny. Penny too,
lovely school, Yeah say it, little money involve.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
At the end of last week, Lord and I on
Thursday had a chance to sit down with one of
the inductees of the class of twenty twenty five, and
tonight is the night that they go into the Grand
Rapid Sports Hall of Fame. Congratulations. There's going to be
a social hour at six o'clock at vand in a Lorena.
I had to go down for my first time seven
o'clock the ceremony. Tickets are still available thirty five dollars

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get you in. Grshof dot com is the website. You
can go online and do that. But Jim Boyling, a
former East Ground Rapids basketball stand out who played collegiately
at Maine, has been a longtime NBA assistant coach, even
at a head coach with Chicago. Ben hand Logan, an
All State basketball player at South Christian that made it
to the NBA Shery Ritz a four sport athlete at
Wheeling Union High and a standout soft player at Michigan State.

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Before her unbelievable coaching career, she was also an athletic
director down there. Dathan Ritzenhein, who we all know we
worked with with our coverage with the Riverbank Run and
then of course Rick Burkey is going in with the
Warren Reynolds Lifetime Achievement Awards. So congratulations to the class
of twenty twenty five. It's going to be fun tonight.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Our conversation with Rick Burkey is in the podcast section
atwoodradio dot com. Former newster I'm sorry, sports director here
at Wood Radio back in the day.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Also honorary mentioned for his wife's cookies. Oh boy, oh
he brought some of those in.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, Jane can cook.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh my.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
In the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
By the way, we ever booked to be interviewed by
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Speaker 2 (04:06):
Amen, just so you know,