Kyle Melinn's Latest Articles
You can’t handle a little critique? You’re not the leader MSU needs
Michigan State University’s elected Board of Trustees has run another president out of East Lansing? That’s an easy storyline. Kevin Guskiewicz is making it sound like that’s the …
No Duggan = Gov. Benson in partisan repeat
The celebration you heard last Thursday when former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan dropped out of the governor’s race came from Jocelyn Benson’s campaign headquarters. Michigan’s Secretary of …
Slotkin moves out of 7th District back to family’s farm in Holly
FRIDAY, Aug. 4 — U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin is no longer a registered voter in the 7th Congressional District, which she was elected to represent nine months ago. Slotkin, a Democrat, moved out of her Lansing rental and changed her voter registration to Holly, which is in the 9th Congressional District.
Halt the Slotkin coronation if Rogers gets in U.S. Senate race
Back in 2018, then-congressional candidate Elissa Slotkin hammered U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop on being invisible in mid-Michigan. To her, it wasn’t a partisan thing. It was a being-present …
Signed bills need to become law quicker … much quicker
If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill today that not a single Michigan Republican legislator supported, when do you think it would officially be on the books as a law? The type of bill …
No political risk to stiffer gun laws, but big risk in being soft on crime
Carol Siemon didn’t have a chance to run for reelection as Ingham County prosecutor on her policy not to charge felony firearm cases. Her argument was that a wide majority of these defendants were Black. …
Why Whitmer prefers a $180 rebate over a longer-term income tax cut
I’m not sure if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is putting her name on them, but you can thank the governor for the $180-per-person rebate check you’re getting later this spring or summer. Michigan is sitting on $9.2 billion thanks to an economy still buzzing …
The time is now for Republicans to win a seat in the U.S. Senate
It’s hard to give a blanket explanation for why Republicans have had such a hard time winning U.S. Senate seats in Michigan over the last 60 years, but they have. Since 1959, Michigan …
Democratic legislators flexing their muscles early
Being in the majority has its privileges. After 40 years in the minority, Michigan Democrats are figuring out that being in the majority comes with power. Republicans are figuring out that without power …