Mackinac Policy Conference: A political free-for-all
Day two of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce's annual Mackinac Policy Conference is winding down but that certainly doesn't mean the politics at the event is slowing. In a special Wednesday...
View ArticleThe week in review
Every Saturday Rina Miller talks with Michigan Radio's political analyst Jack Lessenberry about some of the biggest stories in the week's news. This week they talk about Michigan Farm Bureau endorsing...
View ArticleCommentary: The forgotten campaign
Well, by now there have been a zillion analyses of last night’s debate, most of which agree challenger Mitt Romney came on stronger than a curiously laid-back President Obama.There’s not much I can add...
View ArticleThe debate over debates continues between the Stabenow and Hoekstra campaigns
This week we saw the debate showdown between President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney. Political pundits are talking non-stop about how Romney pulled off a campaign reversal. Debates can be game...
View ArticleElection 2012: Is Michigan a true battleground in the race for the White House?
With just 25 days to go before the Presidential election, and a week since the first Presidential debate, a few pollsters and at least one analyst are putting Michigan into swing-state territory even...
View ArticleTruth Squad: foul for Stabenow; flagrant foul for Hoekstra
After the presidential race, the top of the ballot in Michigan is the U.S. Senate race. Michigan Watch teamed up with the Center for Michigan’s Truth Squad to review recent ads produced by Republican...
View ArticleElection: Michigan's U.S. Senate Race
Michigan voters will choose between two long time fixtures on the state political scene in next Tuesday’s U.S. Senate race. The result may mark the end of one of those political careers.Democrat...
View ArticleStateside: Stabenow addresses farm bill, stresses its urgency
Senator Debbie Stabenow is asking Congress to pass a new farm bill.Stabenow spoke to the Michigan Agri-Business Association at its annual conference in Lansing earlier this morning.Stabenow, who spoke...
View ArticleCommentary: Remembering Helen
Thirty-four years ago, when Debbie Stabenow was a newly elected state representative in a very male-dominated legislature, she got the first of a number of» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleStabenow addresses concerns surrounding the Farm Bill
The Farm Bill would cut the funding to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, by more than $4 billion over the next 10 years. And the» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleThis week in Michigan politics: Common Core, tuition for undocumented...
This week in Michigan politics, Jack Lessenberry and Emily Fox discuss the controversy over the Common Core State Standards, the University of Michigan’s» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleThe Farm Bill: What Michigan stands to gain
If I were young, single, and wanted to score, my guess is that I wouldn’t go to some hot place and say -- “have you been following what’s going on with the» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleDebbie Stabenow on the government shutdown
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed (D-Nev.) says a bipartisan deal has been reached, a deal that would avoid a U.S. default and it would end the partial» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleStateside for Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
When you grab a bottle of water at the grocery store, do you ever wonder where that water came from. And do you really know the quality of that water? We» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleBattles over unemployment benefits, Mackinac’s oil pipeline gain federal...
Emergency unemployment benefits and senatorial "jitters" over an Enbridge oil pipeline running through the Straits of Mackinac: Both are issues...» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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