4 ways to prevent super delays on Election Day in Michigan
No statewide ballot questions? No competitive statewide political race? Very few compelling races anywhere? No matter. A record 2.2 million Michiganders voted in last week’s primary.
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Bernero redux?
Word on the street is Bernero is at least 50/50 set on running for his old job in 2021. Obviously, we're all thinking presidential politics these days, but Mayor Andy Schor has only fewer than 17 months on his term left.
Christine Timmon is on the ballot … and other curiosities
The eccentric political gadfly Christine Timmon is back.
Unheralded field looks to face Slotkin in November
Republicans swung and missed when it came to recruiting a top-tier candidate to run in Ingham County’s 8th Congressional District, leaving those leaning the GOP’s way a choice among four lightly funded political neophytes.
Rick Jones returns to the campaign trail
the political atmosphere couldn’t be more different than it was when Rick Jones made his first political run in 2000.
Calls for Schor’s resignation getting old
Can we stop the “Rush to Resignation” campaign against Lansing Mayor Andy Schor and talk about making changes that matter?
Slotkin, public officials jump on police reforms, not defunding
Public officials are jumping over each other these days with their policing reform ideas.
Why a Capitol gun ban isn’t likely
You can’t bring a gun into the Ingham County Courthouse. Security and a metal detector greets you at the Michigan Hall of Justice and most state office buildings.
Trump messes with the wrong ‘woman from Michigan’
I’m not sure President Donald Trump meant to create a viral hashtag when he referred to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as the “woman from Michigan,” but he did. (#thatwomanfromMichigan).