Petitioners in the effort to recall embattled state Rep. Larry Inman (R-Williamsburg) have a good chance to get their rebuff by the Secretary of State’s elections division overturned in court. There are at least two recent cases that tell us why. Last week, state election officials rejected the petitions circulated to recall Inman on the […]
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MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #79 — Interview with Jason Allen, Michigan Director of USDA Rural Development
Columnist Projects How 2020 Election Could End in a Dead-Heat, with No Winner
A nightmare scenario for 2020: A tie that can’t be broken. It’s conceivable. Computer mouse pads with Secure the Vote logos on a vendor’s table at a July 2018 convention of state secretaries of state in Philadelphia. (Mel Evans/AP) By Charles Lane Opinion writer Nov. 5, 2019 Not overly concerned about America’s political stability? Here’s […]
AUTO BARON HONORED WITH STATUE IN FLINT PARK
By Paul Rozycki East Village magazine Oct. 27, 2019 It may have been a chilly, blustery day, with a hint of rain in the air, but those who gathered at Ballenger Park for the “Ballenger Park Celebration” on Saturday Oct. 26, shared warm memories of their time there, and shared that warmth with William S. […]
LEGENDARY FREE PRESS COLUMNIST HUGH McDIARMID IS GONE. CAN WE EVER FORGET HIM?
Not as long as anyone immersed in Lansing politics and government is still alive. McDiarmid, retired for nearly two decades, died at age 84 on Saturday in a metro Detroit hospital of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. As his former Detroit Free Press colleague Dawson Bell wrote in an encomium this past week-end, “McDiarmid was an […]
WHY DON’T DEMOCRATS USE RECALL TO CHANGE U.S. SENATE JURORS IN A TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TRIAL?
Remember McCain-Feingold? Sure you do. At one time (like, 2002), it was the THE “ultimate” in campaign finance reform law in these United States. It’s largely history now, eviscerated by court decisions, the rapid evolution of campaign financing, and some unintended consequences of the law itself. The “Feingold” was Russ Feingold — a rock star […]
FRIDAY MORNING PODCAST: Beyond-belief Budget Battle/Interview with Oakland Co. Board of Commissioners Chairman Dave Woodward
Governor Leans On Lobbyists to Pull Her Fat Out of the Fire with GOP Legislators
Whitmer’s office to lobbyists: Pressure GOP if you want your vetoed items back by CHAD LIVENGOOD Politics, Policy and Detroit Rising Crain’s Detroit Business Oct. 7, 2019 Photo: Larry Peplin for Crain’s Detroit Business LANSING, MI — Governor Gretchen Whitmer summoned a large group of multi-client lobbyists to a meeting with her aides after […]
DETROIT NEWS: Gov. Whitmer Created “Mess” Out of Thin Air
OPINION Editorial: Budget ‘mess’ is of Whitmer’s making The Detroit News Oct. 1, 2019 Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (Photo: Rick Egan, AP) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer justified her line-item vetoes and shifts of nearly $1.6 billion of the budget approved by lawmakers by claiming the Legislature is “broken” and she must act to protect taxpayers. But what Whitmer is doing is […]
LONGTIME STANDARDS WILL BE BLITZED BY PROP 2 MAPMAKERS, SAYS EXPERT
Look back to see the future. No more “Apol standards.” Instead, in 2022 Michigan voters should expect to see a reprise of the old Austin-Kleiner and Hatcher-Kleiner Congressional and legislative redistricting plans of the 1960s and ’70s. All or part of what is known as Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment approved by Michigan voters last […]