Question: As of today, what top issues look likely that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will use against Republicans in her re-election bid next year? And what will be the top issues the Republican nominee should use against Whitmer? Answer: She will surely focus on Donald Trump (and maybe some Betsy DeVos), and try to tie every […]
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MICHIGAN’S TALLEST TREE — WHAT IS IT? WHERE IS IT?
A remote Upper Peninsula white pine has been crowned Michigan’s tallest tree Byron Sailor, a retired forester and volunteer tree surveyor, takes some of the measurements for a white pine that would be named Michigan’s tallest tree ever recorded. | Photo courtesy of Byron Sailor By Emily Bingham ebingham@mlive.com Nov. 18, 2021 MARQUETTE COUNTY, MICH. […]
DANA NESSEL AND 4 OTHER MICHIGAN POLITICAL ISSUES
Question 1): Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued an apology last Wednesday regarding her intoxication during the Michigan-MSU football game on Oct. 30 in East Lansing. Nessel imbibed two Bloody Mary’s and became drunk and ill during the game. She was encouraged to leave to prevent her from, in her own words, “vomiting on her […]
MICHIGAN AUTO JOBS GO SOUTH — A SEQUEL
The following is from a recent issue of The Tennessee Journal, the political newsletter of record in the Volunteer State (see TBR article of 11/8): LEE SECURES $884 MILLION INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR FORD’S MEGASITE PROJECT “Ford Motor Co. didn’t hire any lobbyists to work the (recent) special legislative session to approve a record amount of incentives […]
MICHIGAN’S LOST JOBS — WILL THEY EVER RETURN?
Not under Gretchen Whitmer, who talks less about economic development than any governor in the past seven decades and delivers actual results hardly ever. Just over a month ago, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. announced it would establish two “massive” campuses focused on electric vehicles in Tennessee and Kentucky and create, with a battery manufacturing partner […]
IN 2022, WILL MICHIGAN ECHO CALIFORNIA TWO DECADES AGO?
What is a “Senior Communications Advisor” in a political candidate’s campaign, and who is Roderika Applewhaite? To answer both questions, Applewhaite (her first name is pronounced roh-DE-ri-kuh) has held the title listed above since March of this year for the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP). Hard to know EVERYTHING she may be doing for the MDP, […]
PRINCETON U. PROFESSORS, ADMINISTRATION AT WAR OVER FREE SPEECH
8 at Princeton Assail ‘False’ Portrayal of Prof as Racist By Stuart Taylor Jr. Real Clear Politics October 27, 2021 YouTube Princeton University’s diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracy, which receives complaints from faculty and students about alleged discrimination and harassment, itself now stands accused by eight Princeton professors of harassing a ninth by falsely and dishonestly portraying him as a racist. The […]
CAN ‘GREAT TEACHERS’ EXIST NOWADAYS?
My Late Father Was a Great Teacher. He Wouldn’t Last a Week in the Modern Classroom. Jeremy S. Adams UNSPLASH October 25, 2021 My father passed away a few weeks ago. He had spent his entire working life teaching junior high and high school students. Most communities in our country possess a few teachers […]
A PUZZLING AND OVERLOOKED MICHIGAN POLITICAL ISSUE
QUESTION of the Day): Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered that contractors on state projects must pay union rates (higher than they would be otherwise) for state construction projects, in a move that would override part of the Republican-controlled Legislature’s 2018 repeal of Michigan’s “prevailing wage” law. Whitmer said: “By reinstating prevailing wage, we are ensuring […]
FOUR MORE ANSWERS TO MICHIGAN POLITICAL QUESTIONS
Question 1): A rally calling for a “forensic audit” of the 2020 presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday (Oct. 12) at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. From a strictly political viewpoint is there any reason prospective GOP 2022 candidates shouldn’t support this? Doing so would be a no-brainer… right? Answer 1) Yes, I would […]