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• Council Pushes Forward on Background Checks for Commissioners and Volunteers, Raising Questions (thesalinepost.com) — Saline's City Council is wrestling with how far to go in tightening background checks for volunteers on city boards, especially as youth participation grows and a recent controversy over a council candidate's past resurfaces. Councilors are split between privacy concerns and safety arguments, have paused new appointments, and will revisit a revised policy Oct. 19 after the policy committee meets.
• Toyota opens a 30,000-square-foot battery center in Michigan (energynews.pro) — Toyota has opened its 30,000-square-foot Battery Center of North America in Saline creating a local hub for developing and testing batteries for hybrid, hydrogen, and electric vehicles. The facility will support Toyota plants across North America and collaborate with the University of Michigan, reinforcing Michigan's—and Saline's—role in advanced automotive and clean-energy technology.
• Outmaneuvered, outmatched and outspent: How data centers are overwhelming small-town America (oregonlive.com) — Saline Township residents are watching a massive Oracle and OpenAI data center rise after local officials, facing costly lawsuits, settled and approved the $43 billion project despite strong opposition. The story uses Saline's experience to show how rural communities nationwide are struggling to resist well-funded tech developers over zoning, tax breaks, water, power use and long-term control of their land.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly?" — Stationary (Thank you David H. for sending it in!)
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