Pick Your Conventional Wisdom by Tim Skubick December 11, 2009 Popular wisdom is often unpopular and often wrong, but what the hey. The popular wisdom is Andy Dillon can’t beat John Cherry for the Democratic nomination for governor. Here’s why the Dillonites reject that notion: (1) Cherry has only 20-percent support in the polls, which [...]
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Pick Your Conventional Wisdom
December 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments
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Know Nothing Journalism
November 30th, 2009 · 14 CommentsKnow Nothing Journalism by Susan J. Demas December 1, 2009 A few weeks ago, I covered Sarah Palin’s pop-star-worthy greeting by more than 1,000 screaming fans gathered in Grand Rapids for her first book signing. It was quite the media event, evidenced by the fact that “Access Hollywood” was on hand. MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell was [...]
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Budget Battles Bloody All
October 29th, 2009 · No CommentsBudget Battles Bloody All by Gongwer News Service October 30, 2009 Adlai Stevenson, once one of the nation’s leading politicians but now a name vanishing in the mists, said: “I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy [...]
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Wrong Message on Texting
October 29th, 2009 · 2 CommentsWrong Message on Texting by Tim Skubick October 30, 2009 Given a chance to reduce who-knows-how-many traffic fatalities and prevent how-many injuries, a House committee punted, taking the politically expedient way out. Shame on them. The issue was outlawing text messaging while driving, which 18 other states have already done. To be sure, the House [...]
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Ducking Tax Increases
October 22nd, 2009 · 6 CommentsDucking Tax Increases by Tim Skubick October 23, 2009 The mere mention of the term “tax increase” sends otherwise stout, hardy legislative men and women heading for the high grass … and with good cause. Michigan’s political history is forever contaminated with tax increase fallout: two Democratic state senators voted for one in the early [...]
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