Whitmer’s Plan to Run Michigan Government on 100% Renewables is ‘Accounting Gimmick’ ‘We’re just giving all our environmental impacts to the Chinese…We’re just doing environmental damage somewhere else…’ By Managing Editor HEADLINE NEWS April 23, 2021 Gretchen Whitmer/Michigan Office of the Governor via AP (Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the state will […]
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IS WHITMER IMPLODING? SOME THINK SO
Gretchen Whitmer’s Crumbling Kingdom In Michigan, a puzzling COVID surge and a cautionary tale about the exercise of power. SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN – OCTOBER 16, 2020: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer introduces Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers remarks about health care at Beech Woods Recreation Center. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Matt Purple, Senior Editor The […]
RONNA McDANIEL A VIABLE GUBERNATORIAL CONTENDER, SAYS BALLENGER
by Craig Mauger THE DETROIT NEWS April 23, 2021 Lansing — Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, revealed this week that she’s considered running against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the 2022 election, according to a Thursday report from Politico. The national news outlet said McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #151 — Ethics Effluvia + Interviews with state Reps. Beth Griffin (R-Mattawan) & Andrew Fink (R-Hillsdale) and Tom Jipping of the Heritage Foundation
WHITHER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT?
A Different Kind of Supreme Court Reform Is Already Happening The left is finally paying attention to the court, and it might be having an impact. By Dahlia Lithwick SLATE April 22, 2021 Chief Justice John Roberts. Photo by Oliver Douliery/AFP/Getty Images Plus. Progressives desperately need massive structural court reform and they need it […]
2022 LOOKING BETTER AND BETTER FOR REPUBLICANS
To Win Majorities in ’22, GOP Doesn’t Have to Make History By Ken Spain Real Clear Politics COMMENTARY April 22, 2021 In the spring of 2009, the cover of Time magazine declared Republicans an “endangered species.” Fast-forward 12 years and Republicans find themselves in a similar position. Pundits have called the GOP dead as the party sifts through the political […]
RESIGNATION IN DISGRACE HAS GONE OUT OF FASHION
Our Local Correspondents Andrew Cuomo, Matt Gaetz, and the New “Never Resign” School of Politics In recent years, many politicians seem to have realized that remaining in office is often the best path out of a scandal—for their own sake if no one else’s. By Eric Lach The New Yorker April 17, 2021 New York Governor […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #150 — Whitmer Wimpout, Interviews with MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn & Fred Wszolek of Unlock Michigan
OTHER STATES JOIN MICHIGAN IN FIGHTING GOVERNORS’ EXCESSIVE POWERS
Fight Against PA Guv’s Powers Reflects Bipartisan Trend By Nathan Benefield RealClearPolitics.com April 15, 2021 Since last spring, many governors have used the pandemic to assume emergency powers, giving them wide-ranging authority to, among other things, shut down businesses, close schools, and enforce stay-at-home orders. Unfortunately, many abused this authority, wielding unilateral powers while dismissing […]
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! ‘UNLOCK MICHIGAN’ IN DISTRESS
May 1, 2021, is looking less like the start of true spring than the beginning of a chess match that may last for months, if not years. By that date, several events will have occurred that may reshape Michigan election laws and the funding of politics going into the 2022 elections. Within the next month, […]