Amanda Wall

I have been producing radio programs for the Michigan Talk Network since I was 18 years old. A 2004 graduate of Holt High School, I attended Michigan State University, majoring in Deaf Education. I love learning new languages and about new cultures. Golfing is one of my favorite things to do, but my short game needs a little work. If I am not at the radio station or on the golf course you will most likely find me at a country music concert with my very best friends (Rachel, Katelyn, and my mom). Traveling the state is something I do often, if you see me around say hello.

Businesses Could Earn Tax Credits For Hiring Veterans

Senator Vincent Gregory, a Democrat from Southfield, has proposed legislation to award businesses up to $4,000 in tax credits to hire unemployed veterans. According to the Associated Press, The Hire MI Heros Act has bipartisan support and will be introduced as legislation soon...

State Police Holding Safe Meeting Posts

The Michigan State Police are creating posts to conduct private business in order to lower crime, according to the Associated Press. These posts will be used as safe sites for transactions between private citizens. There have been incidents across the state of Michigan where people are being robbed after meeting to do private business...

Cougar Caught on Camera in Michigan

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has authenticated a video of a cougar sighting in Mackinac County. They confirmed the sighting Thursday. The DNR released the video on their official website Thursday afternoon. Confirmed cougar sightings or evidence of cougars have been reported 28 times in Michigan since 2008...

Michigan Paying Out Billions in Tax Credits

Over the next two decades Michigan is expected to pay out $9.4 billion in tax credits for businesses. That is almost $3 billion more that the figure previously projected, according to the Associated Press. Steve Arwood the CEO for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation presented the revised report to the state legislature during a hearing on Wednesday...

Southfield Mall Stabbing Possibly Due to Religion

The Associated Press is reporting that officials are investigating a bus stop stabbing in the Detroit-area suburb of Southfield. Eric Hawkins, Chief of the Southfield police said that a man at the Northland Mall bus stop asked two men if they were Muslim...

GM Ignition Switch Deaths Rise to 56

General Motors is sifting through fatality claims based on a faulty ignition switch. The defective part could be responsible for a growing total of deaths. Last week there were 52 deaths, this week four more were added to that to bring the total to 56, according to the Associated Press...

Everyone Will ‘Bragg’ About Kidabaloo

Kidabaloo is taking place Sunday February 15, 2015 at Holt High School. This event will give kids a chance to run around, learn, be entertained and meet a celebrity. Joey Bragg from Disney Channel's Liv and Maddie will be signing autographs from 1:00-4:00 p...

Snyder Presents 2016 Budget

Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder presented the 2016 state budget on Wednesday. The proposed budget is $54 billion, which will be spent on several areas. Snyder would like to focus on skilled trades, education, increasing the reading level for third-grade students and adding more state troopers to the road to "make Michigan a safer place...

Wolves Returning to Michigan’s Lower Peninsula

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is preparing to track the number of wolves in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula, according to the Associated Press. The survey was announced Monday. It will run from February 16 until March 13, it will track how many wolves are in this region of Michigan...

U.S. Coast Guard Station Gate Stormed Sunday

Following a bomb threat to the U.S. Coast Guard in Grand Haven a 34-year-old man drove a pickup through the station gate. That man has been arrested. The bomb threat was called in around 6 a.m. Sunday. Just shortly after at, 6:07 a.m...