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Whether you liked his policies or not, there’s no doubt John Engler was an enormously effective governor a quarter-century ago. He knew the Legislature…
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The Michigan legislature is unwilling to properly fix the roads or repair the rest of our crumbling infrastructure. But there is something they are eager…
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You might think the worst was now over for Michigan State. Larry Nassar is in prison, presumably for life. The university president who failed to get…
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Apart from school board seats and state Supreme Court judges, there are only four Michigan officeholders elected statewide: governor, lieutenant governor,…
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The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in what seems certain to be the highest-profile case it will hear this year.The question is…
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I don’t read a lot of blogs and bloggers, partly because I don’t have the time and partly because in many cases, I know what they are going to say before…
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Elissa Slotkin was twenty-five and in her second day of graduate school in New York City the day the planes slammed into the towers, and, her life, like…
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Four years ago, I went to see Mark Schauer, then the Democratic nominee for governor. He had rightly criticized the Republicans for letting the roads fall…
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George Romney was only governor of Michigan for six years, but he was one of the most important figures in our modern political history. He was the moving…
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I was struck by something buried in an article in the Sunday New York Times that began by noting that students who go to Princeton often marry each…