7/10/20-Interview with Jason Strayhorn, who is attempting to earn the Democratic nomination for the State Board of Education. Jason is a radio analyst for MSU football and gives his take on an upcoming college football season. Partners with www.deadlinedetroit.com.
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DETROIT NEWS: HOW MUCH WILL MOTOWN BE HURT BY QUICKEN LOANS’S IPO?
by Nolan Finley THE DETROIT NEWS July 8, 2020 For a decade, Dan Gilbert has bankrolled downtown Detroit’s revival out of his own wallet, making low-return bets on crumbling buildings that otherwise might have been torn down. It’s an altruistic investment strategy he can indulge because, he told me once in an interview, it’s his […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #109 — Interview with Cheyna Roth, author of new book “Cold Cases,” A Collection of True Crime Mysteries
IS ‘HAMILTON’ THE NEXT TO GO?
Is Hamilton Next? The hit musical, now a movie, celebrates the American Founding so unabashedly that it seems ripe for cancellation. by Kay S. Hymowitz The Social Order/Arts and Culture July 2, 2020 This Independence Day, Disney is giving America a big-ticket birthday gift: the musical Hamilton. After handing over a head-turning $75 million, the […]
TOP MICHIGAN POLITICAL STRATEGIST LAYS OUT DOOMSDAY SCENARIO FOR REPUBLICANS
WHAT AWAITS THE GOP WHEN TRUMP LOSES BIG-TIME AND TAKES THE U.S. SENATE DOWN WITH HIM? That’s the question posed by longtime legal mastermind Bob LaBrant, who along with former Michigan Gov. John Engler is credited by many with doing more to buttress Republican hegemony in the Great Lakes State over the past four decades […]
PODCAST: BLM—Do Unions Agree? Do We Need Police Unions?
7/1/20 Discussion with Mark Gaffney, a member of the Wayne State University (WSU) Board of Governors and former MI AFL-CIO Prez. Are labor unions helping Black Lives Matter? Are police unions necessary? What’s the latest at WSU? Partners with www.DeadlineDetroit.com.
TRUMP, BARR ALIENATE A TOP MICHIGAN GOP ATTORNEY
Few legal activists have given the Michigan Democratic Party more grief, and more defeats, over the past four decades than Bob LaBrant. For most of this time, LaBrant was Senior Vice President for Political Affairs and General Counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. In his brilliant 2016 book, Ratf**ked: The True Story behind the […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #108 — Interviews with Congressional Candidate Peter Meijer (R-MI 3), Bob Giles on Anniversary of 1970 Kent State Shootings, & Humorist Author Hal Marcovitz
MAIL-IN VOTING: IS THE GOP’S STRATEGY ALL WRONG?
Sure looks like it. Every political observer knows that Republicans don’t like mail-in voting as opposed to in-place, showing-up-at the-polls on-Election-Day voting. They believe in the original “town square” meme from colonial times, where the enfranchised showed up in public to cast their ballots. But times have changed. Absentee voting has been in the ascendancy […]
PODCAST: What Will Gov’s Education Task Force Announce? How Suburban Schools Are Dealing w/COVID
6/25/20 How will the governor’s school task force announcement affect education this fall? How are suburban schools dealing with COVID-19? One school changed their Indian mascot to a bird mascot—how did that work out for them? Interview with Deanna Barash, Assistant Superintendent of West Bloomfield Public Schools. Partners with www.DeadlineDetroit.com.