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Michigan’s Mike Shirkey problem is not going away Updated on Feb 18, 2021; Published on Feb 18, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake speaks to a crowd of supporters during a rally for Pastors Alliance Thursday Oct. 8, 2020. The rally which was preplanned took place hours after details were released regarding a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer surfaced.  Nicole Hester/Mlive.com Twitter Share Michigan’s highest-ranking senator has repeatedly used sexist language when referring to the governor, used the word “hoax” when describing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Ca...

Public Interest The ‘bats**t crazy’ jab, ‘religious freedom,’ attack ads and leaked recordings – this is the Mike Shirkey timeline Updated on Feb 19, 2021; Published on Feb 18, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, speaking during an event in downtown Grand Rapids on Monday, May 18, 2020. Twitter Share Mike Shirkey is becoming a household name, as Michigan’s Senate Majority Leader makes headlines with controversial comments about the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. A Republican from Jackson County, Shirkey has been in politics since 2010....

LANSING — Michigan’s gerrymandered political districts fueled extremist politics and helped give rise to President Donald Trump and his enablers in Congress, according to a consultant who helped draw them. "I do admit some culpability in the whole redistricting and gerrymandering," said Jeff Timmer, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party who is now a prominent Trump critic with the Lincoln Project, a political action committee of former Republicans formed last year to prevent the president’s re-election. Timmer helped draw uncompetitive “safe districts” for th...

Wed December 16, 2020 - West Edition #26 Associated Press YUMA, ARIZ. (AP) A construction crew in southern Arizona has discovered an unexploded howitzer round while working on a road. Yuma Proving Ground's explosives experts identified the ordnance as a 155 mm howitzer round of a kind that were used in World War II and the Vietnam War, The Sun reported. The round found on Martinez Lake Road during an $18 million improvement project that began in February was the second discovered this year. The first was found in April in the same location. Martinez Lake Road was closed for several hours whi...

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