Whitmer vs. Trump: COVID-19 response becomes political fight in election year Melissa Nann Burke, The Detroit News April 2, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has led to an election-year spat between President Donald Trump and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, with him dubbing her “half” Whitmer and both trading barbs over the government response to Michigan’s outbreak. The tensions […]
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DETROIT NEWS: TRUMP vs. WHITMER BATTLE CONTINUES
TIME: CAN WE BELIEVE CHINA’S CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS?
China Says It’s Beating Coronavirus. But Can We Believe Its Numbers? By Charlie Campbell / Shanghai and Amy Gunia / Hong Kong TIME magazine April 2, 2020 If you believe the Chinese authorities, the country’s battle against the novel coronavirus is all but won. But that claim is clouded by a fog of skewed data, […]
HEMINGWAY, JFK, AND THE ESSENCE OF COURAGE
By Carl M. Cannon Real Clear Politics March 31, 2020 AP Photo, File On this date in 1938, Ernest Hemingway returned to Barcelona for the third time during the bloody civil war between Gen. Francisco Franco’s right-wing rebels and Spain’s leftist government. Like most American intellectuals, Hemingway was sympathetic to the loyalists’ side. The […]
CORONAVIRUS: CHANGE IS COMING, BUT WHAT KIND?
Opinion This pandemic will reshape the social landscape – it’s just too soon to say how John Ibbitson Globe & Mail March 30, 2020 Open this photo in gallery During these weeks of social distancing, well-educated white-collar professionals work from home, their incomes secure while they tweet about the challenge of holding a virtual […]
PANDEMIC OF NEGLECT: U.S. Health Care System Has Failed
Pandemic of Neglect: How U.S. health care failed to heed repeated warnings of supply shortages More than a dozen government reports dating to the 1990s warned of the sort of medical supply shortages now being experienced in the coronavirus pandemic By Christine Dolan RealClearPolitics March 30, 2020 As the Bush administration entered its final months […]
CAN THE NEWS BUSINESS SURVIVE THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS?
by Michael Luo The New Yorker March 30, 2020 In 2009, as the economy struggled to rebound from the Great Recession, executives at the New York Times found themselves in a vigorous internal debate. They were trying to decide whether their content should go behind a paywall, making it available only to paying subscribers. […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #96 — CORONAVIRUS CACOPHONY, Interviews with Craig Thiel of Citizens Research Council & David Guenthner of the Mackinac Center
PODCAST: Miraculous Marathons/Boccaccio Braggadocio
3/27/20 The Friday Morning Podcast casts aside the clouds of Coronavirus for a retrospective on the spectacular long distance racing career of someone who just completed her 50th marathon in all 50 U.S. States. She was accompanied on almost all of them by her husband, Dennis, who actually got out and ran a few half-marathons, […]
CANDIDATES BARRED FROM BALLOT BY CORONAVIRUS — UNLESS THE LEGISLATURE ACTS
LANSING, STATE CAPITOL: Another unintended consequence of Coronavirus, and nobody is paying attention. Surely, there must be a bill in the legislative hopper to allow candidates for Congress and the judiciary to qualify to run this year by paying a filing fee instead of collecting signatures, right? If not, somebody must have tipped off some […]