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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