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From left, Joel Phelps and Alyssa Robnik admire the work of freelance artist Shelby Kregel at the annual Art on the Rocks Fine Art Show at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette during July 2017. (Journal file photo)
MARQUETTE The 62nd annual Art on the Rocks Fine Art Show is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 24 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 25 at Mattson Lower Harbor Park after the 2020 show was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was announced on its website at marquetteontherocks.com that applications will remain open through March 31.
“We are currently planning for business as usual, though we will continue to keep a close eye on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination efforts over the next few months to ensure that we are able to put together a safe event that abides by all local, state and national guidelines,” wrote Tristan Luoma, Art on the Rocks director.
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The newly elected co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, Meshawn Maddock â a âstop the stealâ figure â tried to intervene when Democratic electors cast votes for Biden in Lansing, and she organised buses to Washington, DC.
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In a symbol of disapproval, two county GOP parties in southwestern Michigan censured longtime Republican US Representative Fred Upton for voting to impeach Trump over the Capitol siege.
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In Shirkeyâs contentious meeting on February 3, Hillsdale County GOP leaders spoke with him at a restaurant a day before they censured him for a number of reasons, including backing a ban on the open carry of guns in the Statehouse and allegedly not doing enough to fight Whitmerâs COVID-19 orders.
State Level Republican Parties Have Gone Crazy
The decline of Virginia’s once-dominant Republican Party is a case study in how a party’s waning electoral appeal is often accompanied by a descent into madness. Rather than view the Virginia GOP’s experience as a cautionary tale, though, it seems state-level Republican Parties across the country see it as a model worthy of emulation.
Virginia Republicans had every reason to believe that Barack Obama’s 2008 victory in this historically red state was a fluke. It was the closest presidential contest in the state since 1976 and the first time a Democratic candidate had won in Old Dominion since LBJ’s landslide win in 1964. The following year, amid the rise of the Tea Party, Republicans retook the governor’s mansion and maintained a prohibitive block of reliable districts at the state legislative level. But in the decade that followed, Republicans became less and less appealing to the state’s voters. And as the GOP declined i