Question: Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC) has pushed back against demands that it release a pair of briefing memos on the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), prepared by its legal counsel, which opt to classify the documents as privileged attorney-client communications that cannot be shared with the public. The ICRC has been under pressure […]
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AMERICA IS RUNNING ON FUMES — The Atlantic
by Derek Thompson The Atlantic magazine Dec. 2, 2021 Let’s start with a simple mystery: What happened to original blockbuster movies? Throughout the 20th century, Hollywood produced a healthy number of entirely new stories. The top movies of 1998—including Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, and There’s Something About Mary—were almost all based on original screenplays. But […]
IS FAR-LEFT ‘WOKENESS’ BECOMING A REAL PROBLEM FOR DEMOCRATS?
MIRS subscription newsletter in Lansing asked last week whether longtime Democratic political guru James CARVILLE is right in arguing that “wokeness” is hurting the Democratic cause – and, if not corrected, will it kill his party in 2022? Could it be that even some progressive-leaning voters believe “it’s gone too far” when Dr. SEUSS books […]
CAMPAIGN 2022: WHITMER vs. THE WORLD
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 […]
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 […]