In race to replace Amash, Meijer may have edge but he’s got competition by Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press July 23, 2020 For all their business successes, the big family names of west Michigan — the DeVoses, the Strykers, the Van Andels — haven’t themselves won too many elections when their names were on the ballot. That […]
MEIJER POISED TO WIN 3rd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT REPUBLICAN PRIMARY: BALLENGER
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #111 — Interviews with Rep. James Haadsma (D-Battle Creek), Senator Jim Runestad (R-White Lake), and John Couvillon of JMC Analytics & Polling
BUSH-ERA NEO-CONS FOR BIDEN — WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Bush-era neocons put their weight behind Biden. And that can mean only one thing. Peter Bolton The Canary July 17, 2020 Earlier this year, former vice president Joe Biden effectively won the Democratic Party primary contest. As The Canary has previously argued, his victory is nothing to celebrate given that his progressive credentials are […]
STAGGERING HYPOCRISY OF NEW YORK TIMES EXPOSED
Why New York Times praises ‘cancel culture’ but skips over its own racist history: Goodwin By Michael Goodwin New York Post/Opinion July 12, 2020 More from: Michael Goodwin In a recent article about Mount Rushmore, The New York Times said of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt that “each of these […]
A PRINCETON PROFESSOR DEFIES UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHMENT
A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor by Joshua T. Katz Princeton University Professor of Classics Quillette July 10, 2020 In Congress, on July 4th, 1776, came the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” Signed by 56 men, many of whom were considered national heroes just a few minutes ago, it […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #110 — Interviews with DUDE4CONGRESS in Michigan’s 13th CD and Prize-Winning Novelist Ivan Obolensky on “Conversation Crisis”
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 […]