Supreme Court won’t accelerate appeal on e-cigarettes
LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court won’t take an expedited appeal from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a dispute over flavored e-cigarettes.
The court ruled recently any appeal should follow a traditional path to the Court of Appeals.
A Court of Claims judge in October blocked Whitmer’s ban on flavored e-cigarettes, saying health officials can’t justify short cuts to adopt the new regulations.
Judge Cynthia Stephens also expressed concern about the impact on adults who might be vaping to avoid regular cigarettes.
Whitmer said the ban was necessary to keep flavored e-cigarettes away from teens.
Justice Stephen Markman wanted to quickly hear the appeal.
“I would do so not necessarily to reverse the injunction, but to affirm the proposition that the judiciary must act with the greatest dispatch in resolving the constitutional validity of actions undertaken by representative public institutions, where such actions have been enjoined by the judiciary,” Markman said.
Happy 2020: Server at Michigan restaurant gets $2,020 tip
ALPENA (AP) — The restaurant bill was $23. But the tip at a small-town restaurant in Michigan was much larger: $2,020.
“Things like this don’t happen to people like me,” server Danielle Franzoni told The Alpena News.
Franzoni, 31, got the tip while working Sunday at Thunder Bay River Restaurant in Alpena. The credit card receipt said “Happy New Year. 2020 Tip Challenge.”
Franzoni, a single mother, couldn’t believe the number, but her manager assured her the tip was legitimate.
She said she was living in a homeless shelter a year ago. Franzoni plans to use the money to reinstate her driver's license and build savings.
“They don’t know nothing about my story. They don’t know where I’ve come from. They don’t know how hard it’s been,” Franzoni said of the couple who left the tip. “They’re really just doing this out of the kindness of their heart.”
Franzoni later went to a restaurant and left a $20.20 tip.
“That was my pay-it-forward,” she said, smiling. “I couldn’t do the other one.”
‘County’ misspelled on 10,000 trash bins in Alabama town
PRICHARD, Ala. (AP) — Some spelling mistakes are tough to see, but that doesn’t include the one that was made on 10,000 trash bins in an Alabama city.
The city of Prichard’s new residential garbage cans say the town is located in “Mobile Country,” but they were supposed to say it’s located in “Mobile County” without the extra “r.”
The mistake isn’t just in fine print: It’s printed in large letters on two sides of the big, gray cans.
Prichard Mayor Jimmie Gardner told WPMI-TV the city’s public works department had the duty of making sure the writing on the cans was spelled correctly.
“Things like that do happen in the proofing,” he said.
The city doesn’t plan to replace the bins, and that’s fine with some people.
“It doesn’t really matter as long as they pick it up,” said longtime resident Murlean Henderson.
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