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Lawrence stands out on Gaza, Line 5, universal health care At MI-7 forum
Whether he was calling Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip "genocide," calling for the closing of Line 5 or promoting "Medicare for All," Democratic MI-7 candidate William Lawrence used a forum hosted by Latino community leaders Tuesday night to draw some of the sharpest yet distinctions between his primary opponents.
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. …