Con-Con Confusion

October 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments

Proposal 1: many undecided voters and confusion over what a con-con would mean.

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Political Feast

September 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Political Feast by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service September 3, 2010 It has always been a wonder why it is the American people feel the need to moan about the length of election campaigns. The exhaustion they emote when a campaign ad airs on television. The way they rend their garments when politicians speak on [...]

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Pummeled by Falling Shoes

July 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Pummeled by Falling Shoes by Stephen A. Jones July 1, 2010 These are hard times for those of us who love Detroit. It seems to be raining shoes. Our former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who was sent to prison a few weeks back for violating his probation on the perjury charge that got him booted out [...]

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Blood in the Pool

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Blood in the Pool by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service May 14, 2010 From the surprises and the mysteries of campaign filing day, in Michigan the political equivalent to the NFL draft, one thing and one thing only was clear: one of seven men…okay, possibly an eighth…will be Michigan’s 48th governor come noon on January [...]

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Getting to Know You

April 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Getting to Know You by Tim Skubick April 9, 2010 In the midst of the most convoluted governor’s race in modern times, one question keeps popping up: why would anybody want to be governor now? Aside from the lousy economy and a toxic political environment in town, there’s another good reason to avoid this job [...]

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Conquering the 2010-11 Budget

April 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Conquering the 2010-11 Budget by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service April 9, 2010 Once more into the breach, once more into the teeth of the fray, up boys, arise virtuous maidens, cast off your drowsy ways — for your state has need of you again. Come gallant lads and lassies, take up the cudgel, draw [...]

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Tea Party Hijackers

February 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Tea Party Hijackers by Tim Skubick February 19, 2010 America, they say, is a red and blue country divided between Democrats and Republicans. Now there is unfolding a civil war within the Grand Ole Party that threatens to marginalize the GOP. Even though the re-election bid of U.S. Senator John McCain out in Arizona appears [...]

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Blood on the Campaign Trail

February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Blood on the Campaign Trail by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service February 19, 2010 On Saturday, February 13, when they should have been otherwise engaged in buying flowers and candy for Valentine’s Day, friends and associates of former Governor James Blanchard started getting text messages telling them that Bob Bowman had decided not to seek [...]

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High Court Ruling a Victory for Liberty and Free Speech

January 28th, 2010 · 4 Comments

High Court Ruling a Victory for Liberty and Free Speech Guest Column by Eric Doster February 1, 2010 According to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” Article I, Section 5 of the Michigan Constitution similarly protects the freedom of speech [...]

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Supreme Court Ruling Constitutes Abuse of Democracy

January 28th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Supreme Court Ruling Constitutes Abuse of Democracy Guest Column by Rich Robinson February 1, 2010 For more than 100 years, congresses, presidents and successive configurations of the Supreme Court held a central truth about American electoral politics: Democracy was not for sale to the highest corporate bidder. New loopholes were invented. Loopholes were closed. Democracy [...]

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