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 system.
John Cherry looked [...]

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Daddy-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 Lt. Gov. John Cherry dropped out [...]

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Can 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 who could vote in [...]

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Mike 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, [...]

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Blown 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 about how her economic recovery [...]

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