It's Tech Talk Tuesday and Justin is joined by Trent Knibbe on behalf oft he Affordable iStore and Jeff Barret to talk about how tech can be used for good in these challenging times.
In the second hour Justin is joined by Rick Vuyst of Flowerland, to talk about landscaping supplies being unrestricted from purchase.
Also, Muskegon Tech's Student Outreach Coordinator, Stephanie Hoekenga to talk about getting your senior the opportunity to get a hands on opportunity in a trade field.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday she plans on extending the state of emergency by 28 days.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday announced the MI Safe Start plan for economic reengagement, saying it would be an “incremental and cautious” plan to get things moving again while preventing a second wave of coronavirus infections.
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Attorney General William Barr warned in a memo that while stay-at-home orders are "necessary," the Justice Department could step in to fight policies it feels go too far. A group of conservative lawmakers has announced the formation of the Save Our Country Task Force.
In Pennsylvania, a statehouse candidate and a group of local businesses have asked the US Supreme Court to lift Gov. Tom Wolf's shutdown orders.
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A man was run over by a tractor and killed south of Grand Rapids Monday evening, authorities say.
It happened around 8:45 p.m. in a field near the intersection of 84th Street and Breton Avenue in rural Gaines Township.
The Kent County Sheriff’s Department said first responders were called to the scene on a report of a tractor doing donuts in the field. When they arrived, they found the tractor still moving and a man lying on the ground. He had been run over.
Coronavirus updates
Texas, home to nearly 30 million people, has unveiled one of the most wide-ranging plans to restart the economy, with Governor Greg Abbott announcing that businesses including malls, restaurants and theaters will be allowed to open their doors, with limited capacity, from Friday. The move has been met with criticism, including from the Houston Chronicle’s editorial board, which wrote last week that without more robust testing, any move to reopen the state is "gambling with people’s lives."
President Donald Trump yesterday unveiled a "blueprint" to expand nationwide testing
Countries that have pursued aggressive approaches to testing, like New Zealand and Australia, are beginning to reopen after a dramatic drop in infections. Nearly half a million people have returned to work in New Zealand, and Australia’s celebrated Bondi Beach reopened today to surfers and swimmers. France, Italy and Spain, among the hardest-hit countries in Europe, have also announced tentative plans to ease restrictions.
China doubles down on surveillance
The morning after Ian Lahiffe returned to Beijing, he found a surveillance camera being mounted on the wall outside his apartment door. Its lens was pointing right at him. Chinese authorities have been installing cameras outside — and in some cases even inside — the homes of those under quarantine since at least February, Nectar Gan writes.
As China expands its digital "health code" system to track people’s movements, its response to the coronavirus continues to come under fire from the US. Trump said again yesterday that China could have stopped the outbreak before it swept the globe, and that the US was conducting "serious investigations" into what happened.
Notables
Local officials will seek to remove a California planning commissioner who threw a cat and openly drank on a Zoom call
First, it was don't skip pants on Zoom calls; now, it's don't drink and throw pets on Zoom calls? People need to behave.
Tribeca and YouTube are working on an online festival
Finally, a chance to wear your fancy evening gown while sitting at home on the couch.
Microsoft Word says it's wrong to use 2 spaces after a period