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Arbor, Mich.—We’re at a historical pause far deeper than the interregnum between Trump and Biden. Amid planetary warming, the pandemic has forced us to slow down if not to stop in our tracks. Locked in, I read a lot. So when JoAnn Wypijewski, author of a terrific new book about gender, sex, and silences, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo, asked for a dispatch on the pandemic and Michigan from my experience this year, it was books I had to write about. First, about p...

Mackinac Center for Public Policy In her latest attack on Line 5, the pipeline that transports oil and natural gas liquids through the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan’s governor has moved to revoke the 1953 easement contract that allows it to operate. That arbitrary and ill-advised move will shutter a key part of the state’s essential energy infrastructure, increase the price of heating and transportation fuels, and threaten thousands of jobs. With the move to revoke the easement, Gov. Gretc...

Detroit Is Trying to Get Sidney Powell Fined, Banned from Court, and Referred to the Bar for Filing the ‘Kraken’ Adam Klasfeld © Provided by Law & Crime A November 19, 2020 photo shows Sidney Powell speaking during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC. - US President Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis reportedly said that Powell is not a member of the Trump legal team. (Photo by MAN...

The MGCB told USPoker on Thursday that online gaming may be launching in the coming weeks. It’s unknown if that could include poker. “Based on what we know at this point, we expect to authorize launch by mid-January,” MGCB spokeswoman Mary Kay Bean told USPoker in an email. “We don’t know whether poker will be among the games included at initial launch. It will depend on an operator’s readiness to offer poker (their games have been evaluated by independent testing labs and our ow...

How the States Voted Relative to the Nation A Commentary By Kyle Kondik Thursday, December 10, 2020 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Joe Biden did better than Hillary Clinton in the lion’s share of states. — However, when one takes into account how the states voted relative to the nation, Republicans retain an edge in the Electoral College. Sign up: Free daily newsletter Sign up! — Despite voting for Biden, key battleground states such as Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all became mor...

The libyan president is about the number of suspects, he is saying there were 40 of them. the problem is a week ago he was saying 50. the interior ministry here recently just told us 25. he also repeated the assertion he believes the attack was plea planned. weve been hear that as well. it has not been said all around washington however. finally a now report today saying what weve been saying that fbi agents apparently have not yet reached benghazi. this amid new concerns about the state, the co...

Editorial in "the new york times," and president obama came in with a rescue package, and now the auto industry is up and running. and so the democrats and president obama have been beating romney about the ears with that accusation. but i think romney has a lot of pride in the fact that he was born and brought up in michigan, and hes trying to give president obama the impression that hes going to have to fight to win michigan as john kerry had to fight to win it back in 2004 by only three-and-a...

International law that would trump the u.s. constitution. jon? jon: what a world. jonathan hunt, thanks. arthel: the road to victory in 2012 winding through ohio and the push for votes in this key swing state is kicking into high gear. president obama campaigning in ohio today less than a week before early voting gets underway. hell be holding campus rallies at bowling green state university and kent state this afternoon hoping to drum up support among young voters. the republican campaign is cr...

As you just heard a minute ago is up, people are getting better, people feel it, and particularly in those battlegrounds you were describing in ohio, michigan, the saving of the awe eau industry was -- auto industry was a big deal. the president stood by those workers, mitt romney walked away from them. its having a particularly big impact in those midwestern battle ground states. jon: well, to be clear, romney said he favored a structured bankruptcy which is essentially what gm went there, righ...

Arthel: welcome back. im arthel nell, we are your election headquarters and with just over a month until the big day, were taking a look at the battleground states that could decide the race for the white house. today michigan, the state where governor romney was born and his father served as governor. the wolverine state carries 16 electoral votes, the unemployment rate is 9.4%, more than a full point higher than the national average. president obama has visited the state once since april, he w...