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# Mark Hackel Opposes Big Gretch On COVID, A New Jeep SUV & A New Series Tackles Food Waste
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/mark-hackel-opposes-big-gretch-on-covid-a-new-jeep-suv-a-new-series-tackles-food-waste/
- Published: 2020-09-03T16:40:23.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-19T00:03:38.000Z
- Author: Sven Gustafson
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12

Gym rats, rejoice? In a much-anticipated announcement, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says gyms and fitness facilities can now officially reopen, if they require everyone to wear face masks. So, yay?

[via GIPHY](https://giphy.com/gifs/Obama--exercise-veep-fJliUiYbvEIoM?ref=dailydetroit.com)

Speaking of Big Gretch, one fellow Democrat who isn’t likely to end up on her Christmas card list this year is Mark Hackel, the Macomb County executive. *Crain’s* [reports](https://www.crainsdetroit.com/government/hackel-endorses-campaign-revoke-whitmers-emergency-powers-coronavirus-pandemic?ref=dailydetroit.com) he’s backing “Unlock Michigan,” the petition drive aimed at stripping the guv of her powers to declare a statewide emergency, a la the stay-at-home order and other orders keeping certain classes of businesses closed. Macomb County is the only county listed as having accelerated spread over the last seven days in the tri-county or 10-county southeast Michigan region, according to globalepidemics.org from the Harvard Global Health Institute.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2020/09/Jeep-Grand-Wagoneer-2-1024x576.jpg)

Grand Wagoneer Concept

In other news, we discuss the new Jeep Grand Wagoneer three-row SUV revealed on Thursday. (tl;dr version: IT’S BIG.)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/47/f5/47f528d4-7214-4519-b2b2-26249e48460d/content/images/wordpress/2020/09/Jeep-Grand-Wagoneer-1024x576.jpg)

Grand Wagoneer Concept

Quicken Loans made eleventy-bajillion dollars in its first quarterly earnings report to Wall Street since going public. The Detroit Police Department has unfurled a slew of new guidelines addressing the use of force, a hot topic during this horrible, nightmarish year, with a new phone number to report feedback and complaints about police encounters: 313-596-2499.

Finally, I interview Danielle Todd, from [Make Food Not Waste](https://www.makefoodnotwaste.org/?ref=dailydetroit.com), about [this month’s series of virtual events](https://www.makefoodnotwaste.org/events/?ref=dailydetroit.com) with local chefs exploring the issue of how to avoid food waste.

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