Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel will give his 2012 State of the County address tonight at Macomb Community College, but for the first-time ever, residents won't have to be there to watch it.

As the event is invite-only, Macomb Community College will host a live stream of the speech beginning at 6 p.m. from the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. The speech will air in real time on Macomb County’s homepage www.macombgov.org.

The speech will later be broadcast in its entirety on WDET-FM (101.9) at 7 p.m. WDET is a public service of Wayne State University.

Those on Twitter can also follow the speech on Macomb County’s news account @MacombNewsNow or on @MarkHackel. Macomb Patch will be following the speech on its account @MacombPatch. Use the hash tag #MacombSOC12 to join the conversation. 

Hackel is expected to focus on topics such as the Blue Economy, defense and economic development during his speech.