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Restaurants opened yesterday for inside dining, first time since mid-March closure due to COVID-19. Really rough, awkward experience. Palpable paranoia all around, odd approaches to customer traffic flow (in support of “social distancing” efforts). Wait ….

Sitting Council Member Christen Mitchell has announced her run this year to serve as Saline City Mayor.

Final answer? “The Michigan state supreme court sided with a 77-year-old barber Friday night, ruling his shop could open despite prolonged shutdowns of wide swaths of the economy ordered by Democratic Gov Gretchen Whitner,” reported ….

Seriously? “After 102 executive orders, confusion is commonplace on what’s allowed in Michigan and what isn’t,” re COVID-19. Reported by Taylor DesOrmeau yesterday on mLive.

Organizing committee announced on Facebook that Saline Summerfest will not be held this year due to COVID-19 concerns.

Karl Manke, the Owosso barber who had initially prevailed before a Shiawassee County Circuit Court Judge in his effort to continue cutting hair notwithstanding violation of Executive Order signed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer under ….

re “… Gov Whitmer’s controversial nursing home policy that puts infected patients in the same facilities as negative patients …,” as reported by Rod Meloni and Derick Hutchinson on May 27, 2020 for Click on ….

Speaker of the Michigan House Lee Chatfield, today on Twitter: “Although it kept the governor’s emergency orders in place, the Court of Claims agreed with the Legislature that the Governor broke the law in unilaterally ….

Other Voices: “Phil Santer (2019.05.21)– on tech in Saline: A lot more innovation is happening than you may realize,” just published on Saline Journal.

Grand Rapids: “Michigan sheriff says Gov Whitmer’s stay-at-home order is akin to mass arrest,” Michael Kransz, May 18, 2020, mLive.