What a Difference a Year Makes by Tom Shields March 19, 2010 Just a year ago, the pundits had the Republican Party on the verge of extinction. Time Magazine said, “Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species,” and speculated that they could sink to the level of a third party in a two-party [...]
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What a Difference a Year Makes
March 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Daddy-Daughter Dance
March 11th, 2010 · 2 CommentsDaddy-Daughter Dance by Tim Skubick March 12, 2010 This is a tale of four fathers with daughters. Let’s start with Bob Bowman. For two full terms he worked as state treasurer for Gov. Jim Blanchard. “I’ve always been interested in being governor,” Bowman confessed after he left state government. But the interest remained unexplored until [...]
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Can the Candidates Do the Job?
March 4th, 2010 · 2 CommentsCan the CandidatesDo the Job? by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service March 5, 2010 Herewith a point of argument that includes a prediction: if the professionals involved in government — that is, the people who work in and around state government, be they bureaucrats, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters and others — were the only ones [...]
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Mike Bouchard Runs as Straight-Shooting Voice of Experience
February 16th, 2010 · 4 CommentsMike Bouchard Runs as Straight-Shooting Voice of Experience Oakland sheriff says he knows how to get state government back in line by Susan J. Demas February 16, 2010 Hurricane Katrina was slamming into New Orleans, leaving most of the coastal city underwater. The Category 5 hurricane would eventually claim the lives of 1,836 souls, making [...]
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Blown Away
November 19th, 2009 · 3 CommentsBlown Away by Tim Skubick November 20, 2009 Out of the blue, the governor was asked what title she would use if she wrote a book about her tenure in Lansing. How about Blown Away? You’ll recall that was the line she used in one of her State of the State speeches as she gushed [...]
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