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Question 1): As Michigan continues to lose market share in gross national product (GNP) as well as population, other countries are ready to move into the Great Lakes State seeking economic opportunity. Some of these entries seem welcome, others not so much.Norway, everybody’s favorite country, is embraced. But China? A company called Gotion with ties […]

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 149th, will once again be telecast (on NBC) and simulcast in Michigan, this coming Saturday (May 6). Post time is supposed to be 6:57 p.m., but you can count on […]

Rating Democrats’ and Republican Performance in the Legislature; Does Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Need the GOP Anymore for Anything?; Who will win the Coming Battle over Tax Cuts and Who Deserves Credit for them? Question 1): Using an A to F scale, what grade do Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and legislative Democrats deserve for their performance so […]

Question 1): Jonathan Oosting wrote an April 11 article in BRIDGE MICHIGAN describing how the Michigan Republican Party may replace its 2024 presidential primary with a closed caucus or convention that would allow only precinct delegates or vetted Republicans to participate. Oosting reported that state GOP Chair Kristina Karamo has said that no decisions have […]

AN ORDINARY MAN: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford, by Historian Richard Norton Smith, will be Published This Week  A long-anticipated biography of Gerald R. Ford — the only president to come out of Michigan — will be released in Grand Rapids this Tuesday, April 11, followed by a Lansing appearance […]

    A long-anticipated biography of Gerald R. Ford — the only president to hail from Michigan — will be released in Grand Rapids next Tuesday, April 11, followed by a Lansing appearance by the author, prize-winning historian Richard Norton Smith, two days later, on Thursday, April 13. AN ORDINARY MAN: The Surprising Life and Historic […]

Question 1): Big news! The state income tax will officially be dropped from 4.25% to 4.05% for the 2023 tax year. How did this happen? Is this rate here for keeps? As part of a $1.2 billion road funding plan enacted by a majority Republican Legislature and approved by Gov. Rick Snyder back in 2015, […]

Question 1): Michigan’s Democrat-controlled Legislature voted last week to repeal the state’s Right to Work (RtW) law, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed it Friday. Michigan enacted RtW in 2012, when the GOP held a majority in both chambers and Republican Rick Snyder was governor. Over the past decade, RtW gave workers the choice of toiling […]

Question 1): Gov. Gretchen WHITMER last week signaled that she would sign the Right to Work (RtW) repeal bill that contains a token appropriation, despite signing an executive directive in 2019 that says she intends to veto any policy bill that includes an appropriations to circumvent the right to a referendum.The RtW $1 million appropriation […]

Question 1): If there was any doubt that Michigan Democrats would move quickly and boldly to enact an agenda that many of them didn’t talk much about in last year’s general election campaign but could have been expected to support if their candidates won (most of whom did), it has been dispelled. Republicans’ worst fears […]