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MIRS newsletter has big news in Webinar! What is going on in the Michigan Republican Party? Here’s what a MIRS poll found when respondents were asked which GOP gubernatorial candidate they would vote for on Aug. 2nd! The Answer: Undecided is the winner, with 37%; James Craig is first with 32% among 13 Candidates; Christian […]

They may be multi-millionaires, but so far their expensive political ad buys aren’t helping their fledgling campaigns to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the August 2 primary election. That’s how one of Michigan’s top media strategists, Robert Kolt, views the efforts of “quality guru” Perry Johnson and auto dealer Kevin Rinke, after viewing their […]

QUESTION OF THE DAY: The $74.1 billion FY 2022-23 budget proposed by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week would be by far the largest in state history. If approved by the Legislature, which it won’t be, it would invest heavily in cities, K-12 schools, universities and electric vehicles, among other things. But it’s light on […]

Question 1): Still another Republican last week announced his candidacy for governor — he’s Michael Markey, a Grand Haven business owner. That brings the total back to a baker’s dozen candidates for the GOP nomination, which is a record. Who is Michael Markey? Will his candidacy make a difference leading up to the Aug. 2 […]

Question 1): Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered her fourth State of the State message last Wednesday. For the second straight year, she scaled things back by speaking not in the state capitol but in a remote location, this time the factory floor of Detroit Diesel. How did she do? Answer 1): The headline on this speech […]

QUESTION: A three-hour joint  meeting of the Oversight Committees of the Michigan House of Representatives and  Michigan Senate last week focused on a state Auditor General’s report finding that death numbers from COVID-19 in nursing homes were higher than the death numbers reported by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Dept. of Health & Human Services. As MIRS […]

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans, particularly Democrats, have become comfortable with the idea of authoritarianism. A recent Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports survey found that when it comes to the treatment of unvaccinated Americans, 55 percent of Democrats support fines, 59 percent support house arrest, 45 percent support internment camps, 47 […]

Question 1): MIRS newsletter this week quoted the late, great George Bernard SHAW this way: “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.” MIRS imagined that Shaw may have considered making a similar observation about attorneys, but probably didn’t want to get sued. So, let’s consider the Michigan Independent […]

Question 1): Last week, the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission finally released its maps for Michigan’s 13 Congressional Districts, 38 state Senate seats, and 110 enclaves in the state House of Representatives. How has the ICRC done so far, and will the maps hold up? Answer 1)): Obviously, holding closed-door meetings, only to be told by […]

‘Wait, what?’ quip lead list of words, phrases to banish in 2022 THE DETROIT FREE PRESS from the Associated Press Dec. 31, 2021 SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — The judges of a Michigan university’s cheeky annual “Banished Words List” have a message for texting and tweeting Americans: Your “wait, what?” joke is lame. The phrase […]