China Relationships Produce Jobs

February 23rd, 2012 · 46 Comments

Michigan looks on $4.3 billion China-Iowa deal with thoughts of what could have been.

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Déjà Vu for Hoekstra

August 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Clark Durant’s entry into GOP U.S. Senate race is history repeating itself for Pete Hoekstra.

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Throwing Stones at the Bus

August 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Throwing Stones at the Bus August 20, 2010 Pete Hoekstra would have been fun to kick around as governor. You got a glimpse at his no-holds-barred persona on the tube the other day. Trying to figure out what went wrong is a touchy subject for most candidates. They often go on a scavenger hunt for [...]

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Fat Lady Approaching for Dems

July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Fat Lady Approaching for Dems July 23, 2010 Take yourself back to election night 2008. The scene is a huge park underneath the picturesque skyline of Chicago, with hundreds of thousands of citizens making a little history. President-elect Barack Obama and family walk onto the stage amidst shouts, tears, joy and a change you can [...]

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Poll Tries to Polish Granholm Legacy

July 8th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Poll Tries to Polish Granholm Legacy July 9, 2010 They are quietly passing out the polish deep inside the Granholm administration as the effort continues to put a little gloss on the governor’s economic track record — which is not breaking any records, to say the least. Even she is forced to concede that the [...]

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Running Mates

March 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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What a Difference a Year Makes

March 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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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Can the Candidates Do the Job?

March 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Truth in Advertising

February 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Getting Down to Business in 2010 Race for Governor

November 16th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Getting Down to Business in 2010 Race for Governor Congressman Pete Hoekstra plans to bring common-sense, CEO sensibility to top post by Susan J. Demas November 16, 2009 When U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flicked off the lights in Congress last summer instead of taking up the GOP’s offshore drilling legislation, a Twitter star was [...]

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