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Matt Maddock Oakland County state Rep. Matt Maddock, owner of a bail bonds company and one-time occasional fugitive hunter, has...
RECOGNITION JUGGERNAUT
The buzz about Michigan State Represenative Mari Manoogian (D-Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township) seems to have taken on a li
LEARN TO PLAY NICE
You know you’re not winning a popularity contest when the leadership of your own political party disavows you. That’s what has happened with
NO IDLE THREAT
As we all learned when the FBI and Michigan State Police arrested several members of the Wolverine Watchmen, an armed militia group who had
BAG OF BUCKS
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, elected in 2018 on the slogan of “fix the damn roads,” had her whole agenda waylaid in 2020 by COVID-19 pandemic....
BAD TO WORSE
We don’t know what Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox has to say on this, but we imagine she may not approve. Republican activist Brandon Hal
OOPS
And then there were four. Speaking of opposition, Elissa Slotkin (D-Rochester, Rochester Hills) has one less on the Republican side....
BULLSEYE
A 2020 target for state Democrats, as well as Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) and House Minority Leader Christine Greig (D-Farmington...
PETERS’ VULNERABILITY
The national political media has Michigan’s U.S. Senate race between incumbent Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield) and Republican challenger
SHRI FOR THE D
Vowing that he won't fade away from the public scene, former 2018 gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar (D-Ann Arbor) is rumored to be c
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