Jim Mishler

The Litchfield Community Pool hasn’t even opened up for swimming enthusiasts since it shut down the season at the end of 2018. Time has caught up with the aging facility and the costs to renovate the pool and supporting equipment to bring it up to code is just too much for the town to be able to cover.

State Senators last week were voting along straight party lines to approve the provision from a citizen petition drive to repeal a state law on the books since 1945. The Michigan State House of Representatives gets a crack at it on Wednesday.

The conservative state lawmaker is among a growing list of state legislators around the country who are proclaiming that privacy, religious practices, and health-related decision-making rights of US citizens must be respected.