The Kwame Bleed
September 3, 2010
DETROIT — A year ago, there were lots of reasons to think Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox would be the next governor.
The son of working-class Irish immigrants joined the Marines, put himself through the University of Michigan’s college and law school, and then was elected attorney general, the only Republican to [...]

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Street Fighter Stirs Up Contest for State CEO
Attorney General Mike Cox battles to be Michigan’s next governor
by Susan J. Demas
May 16, 2010
As World War I engulfed Europe, another battle was brewing in Britain. On Easter Monday, 1916, the Irish Republican Brotherhood stormed through [...]

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Running Mates
by Tim Skubick
March 26, 2010
You are aware of the silly little game journalists play to see who can be first to write about a story. Be assured that this is the first time you will read anything about the GOP and Democratic nominees for governor thinking about running mates.
How absurd to even think about [...]

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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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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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Truth in Advertising
by Tim Skubick
February 26, 2010
When the Snyder for Guv guys were fact-checking their notorious Nerd commercial, they missed one huge error. The announcer claimed that business guy Snyder had a Ten-Point Plan that the typical career politician would not understand.
Turns out, every politician will understand. That’s because much of the Snyder blueprint contains [...]

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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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