Is it heat exhaustion or credibility exhaustion that makes politicians do the silly things they do?
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Politics’ Silly Season
July 16th, 2011 · No CommentsIs it heat exhaustion or credibility exhaustion that makes politicians do the silly things they do?
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Campaign Laws Should Mean Something
June 15th, 2011 · 2 CommentsIt took persistence and a new secretary of state to finally enforce a major campaign finance violation.
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No More Kwames and Monicas?
April 12th, 2011 · 2 CommentsColumns Eric Freedman No More Kwames and Monicas? April 15, 2011 As Kwame Kilpatrick sits in a cell at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson awaiting yet another trial while hoping for parole, his seemingly endless legal travails and their wonderfully lurid backstories run on and on — criminal charges, civil litigation, federal [...]
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Shaking Up Michigan Courts
December 17th, 2010 · No CommentsState Supreme Court Chief Justice Marilyn Kelly takes bold steps to correct the problems with judicial campaigns.
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Pummeled by Falling Shoes
July 1st, 2010 · 1 CommentPummeled 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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Stupid Administration Tricks
March 18th, 2010 · No CommentsStupid Administration Tricks by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service March 19, 2010 One could forgive Governor Jennifer Granholm if she were seen about the halls of the governor’s residence this week muttering to herself, “With friends like these…” Not since former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick publicly stabbed her in the back on the issue of [...]
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