By Eartha Jane Melzer 8/7/08
My colleague LoRayne Apo-Joynt recently blogged about her frustration with the Marquette Mining Journal. Given her difficult experience with the paper, I am happy to report that the cover of last weekend’s Sunday edition featured an excellent series by Miriam Moeller on the Protect the Earth Summit.
CNN gets ambitious with “Black in America” special, while MSNBC takes a peek at “Multicultural in America”
By LoRayne Apo-Joynt 8/1/08
Not fit for wrapping fish, says this reader
By Ed Brayton 7/30/08
The perpetual candidate, Debbie Schlussel, McDonald’s boycott, the light and Stewart v. Donnelly
By Joel Thurtell 7/30/08
Wayne County deputy clerk knows where they went but won’t say
By Minehaha Forman 7/29/08
Flint police can arrest people who “sag” or wear their pants below the hips.
By Eartha Jane Melzer 8/6/08
Taxpayers must underwrite construction; plants are slow to come online
By Alexa Stanard 8/6/08
The Detroit Zoo has dodged the bullet that seemed to have dead-on aim just two years ago
Barack Obama’s appearance at the Lansing Center on Monday to deliver a major speech unveiling his energy plan was highly anticipated by the audience before the speech and highly praised by them after.
Apparently determined to let no visit by his opponent go unchallenged, Sen. John McCain descended on Michigan today just one day after Sen. Barack Obama visited the state’s capital.
By Todd Spencer 8/6/08
At 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick declared victory in the 13th Congressional District primary race.
Early in the evening with 13 percent of the vote in, the incumbent Kilpatrick had been as many as 25 points behind former state rep. Mary Waters.
By Minehaha Forman 8/6/08
The race for Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick’s 13th District seat in the U.S. House is going into the morning undecided. With 71 percent of all precincts reporting, Kilpatrick has come from behind and leads Mary Waters by some 900 votes.
After jumping out to a shocking early lead over incumbent Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, former state Representative Mary Waters has seen her cushion reduced to nothing with two-thirds of all 13th Congressional District primary votes counted.
By Todd A. Heywood 8/5/08
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presumptive nominee for president, addresses a crowd in Lansing where he unveiled his new energy plan.
By Ed Brayton 8/5/08
Barack Obama chose Lansing as the place to unveil a comprehensive plan to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil because, he argued, investment in alternative and renewable energy has the potential to revive and transform Michigan’s economy.
By Eartha Jane Melzer 8/5/08
Prepares to monitor Tuesday’s primary in two counties, the general in November
By Staff Report 8/4/08
[Ed. note: Ed Brayton and Todd Heywood have been on site at the Lansing Center, providing live coverage of the Obama campaign event today. Earlier coverage, Obama's speech and photos can be found below the jump.]
By Eartha Jane Melzer 8/8/08 1:36 PM
Last week I reported that the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee was upset with an anti-Arab cartoon that Republican Congressman Mike Rogers of Brighton has posted on his Web site as part of an “energy independence plan.”
A spokesman for that group said Roger’s image of a man dressed in Gulf attire and saying,”We need more money for jihad” was “fear-mongering hate speech.”
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By Eartha Jane Melzer 8/8/08 11:26 AM
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By Eartha Jane Melzer 8/7/08 1:59 PM
Incumbents were ousted across Northern Michigan in Tuesday’s primary.
This Traverse City Record-Eagle editorial titled “Voters not accepting status quo” explains:
The themes of the day appeared to be change and accountability — with some familiar-face fatigue thrown in for good measure.
Outside Traverse City, in Garfield Township, which by population is the largest local government in Northern Michigan, the competition for positions was the stiffest in decades, and Supervisor Lee Wilson was voted out of office after 32 years.
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By Minehaha Forman 8/7/08 1:37 PM
If eight felony charges and an accusation of assault weren’t enough, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is going to jail today because he violated his travel bond in July with an unannounced trip to Canada. He was required by law to notify the court if he left the state or the country.
In the midst of all this controversy, it seems that the mayor is making it harder for himself. A simple call from the cell phone could have prevented this stint behind bars.
By Todd A. Heywood 8/6/08 4:43 PM
Eaton County Sheriff Mike Raines may have won his Republican primary handily last night, but the battle between Raines and his primary opponent Tom Reich is continuing. Raines, 53, is the current Eaton County Sheriff and will continue in $82,713-a-year office for another term since he faces no general election challenge from a Democrat. Raines has been Sheriff since 2005, when former Sheriff Rick Jones left to become a Republican state representative.
Following our report last night on Reich filing a criminal complaint against Raines and his wife Laurie, WILX NBC 10 in Lansing reported Tuesday morning that a Reich sign has been taken by Michigan State Police and is being analyzed for finger print evidence.
By Minehaha Forman 8/6/08 12:42 PM
Saving lives is not exactly what I think of when I’m emptying my wallet to fill my gas tank. But after reading a new report released by the University of Michigan that linked high gas prices to a drastic decrease in people who got killed by motor vehicles, I realized it should be. A lot more people are alive today because of rising gas prices, this study suggests. Of the countless downers to high gas prices, this report comes as refreshing news that might relieve mental pain at the pump.
By Alexa Stanard 8/6/08 12:39 PM
Just one day after visiting the state, news that Sen. John McCain would return to Michigan next week leaked out.
McCain plans to visit Michigan for back-to-back big-ticket fund-raisers on Aug. 13, according to the Detroit Free Press. Both are scheduled to be held in Birmingham, in McCain’s stronghold of Oakland County, at the Big Rock Chop House and the tony Townsend Hotel.
