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FIVE QUESTIONS ON ABORTION AND THE FLINT WATER CRISIS

Let’s start with a question about the never-ending Flint Water Crisis and then get into abortion: Earlier this week, the Michigan Supreme Court unanimously ruled (6-0) that the case the state has been making against various officials in the administration of former Gov. Rick Snyder, including Nick Lyon, the ex-director of the state Dept. of […]

LEGENDARY DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN GURU GT LONG PUBLISHES ‘HOW-TO’ BOOK ON MICHIGAN POLITICS

From his beloved Horton Bay in the northwest Lower Peninsula of Michigan, GT Long has penned a political memoir entitled “A Distant Rumble — The Unnoticed, Unreported World of Grassroots Politics.” It’s a hoot — an absorbing, funny page-turner of only 122 pages divided into a Prologue and some three and a half-dozen very brief […]

FIVE BIG QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK IN MICHIGAN POLITICS

Question 1): The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley last Thursday on four misdemeanor charges, hours before the first high-profile hearing by a U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. Federal authorities in court records said Kelley climbed onto portions of the U.S. Capitol, encouraged and gestured to other […]

CAN DEMOCRATS RECAPTURE A MAJORITY IN THE MICHIGAN HOUSE?

On paper, House Democrats appear to have a much better shot at majority status in the state House than they do for the state Senate. Strangely, however, scuttlebutt among the political ‘chattering class’ indicates that House Republicans are in the driver’s seat for the majority whereas the Senate GOP’s chances to prevail are a ‘jump […]

WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE FRAUDULENT PETITIONS? WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

YES, A RECORD NUMBER OF GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES MAY BE THROWN OFF THE BALLOT FOR THE AUG. 2 MICHIGAN PRIMARY ELECTION. AS OF TODAY, WE DON’T KNOW WHETHER THIS WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN, BUT WE MAY GET AN ANSWER BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. UNTIL THEN, HERE’S THE QUESTION: Question 1): The Board of State Canvassers […]

WILL DEMOCRATS IN MICHIGAN SENATE BOTCH A WINNING HAND AGAIN?

Do Democrats have a chance to finally regain control of the state Senate this coming Nov. 8 after a four-decade hiatus? Sure they do. In fact, they should have gotten control — or at least a tie — in 2006, which was a huge Democratic year. At least 23 districts (out of the 38 total) […]

DEMOCRATS COULD GAIN A MAJORITY OF MICHIGAN’S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION FOR ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN A GENERATION

Only once in the past 20 years have Michigan Democrats elected a majority of the state’s Congressional delegation. That was in 2008, when Democrats knocked off a pair of Republican U. S. House members to achieve an 8-7 edge in 2009-2010. That lasted only one term. Republicans got their delegation majority back in 2010 and […]

ABORTION IN MICHIGAN: WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

Does SCOTUS Leak on Roe v. Wade Really Help The Dems? As MIRS newsletter reported last week, whoever leaked the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft on overturning Roe v Wade put Republicans in a bind — at least it initially seems so. In the week since the revelation, the Democrats have seemingly been everywhere — defining […]

ANSWERS TO FOUR POLITICAL QUESTIONS IN MICHIGAN

Is A ‘Red Wave’ In November A Sure Thing? Question 1): Over the years, elections in the middle of a presidential term, either first or second, have tended to yield substantial gains for whichever political party is out of power. That means the Democrats would seem to be in trouble, especially with President Joe BIDEN’s […]

2022 KENTUCKY DERBY: DOES CATASTROPHE AWAIT?

A  KENTUCKY DERBY PICK The latest chapter in “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports” is upon us again. YES! —  this year’s Kentucky Derby, the 148th, will once again be telecast (on NBC) and simulcast in Michigan, this coming Saturday (May 7). Post time is supposed to be 6:57 p.m., but you can count on […]

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