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GOP Better Get Cracking
2018 could go wrong if the GOP doesn’t get back to fulfilling campaign promises Click Here for Story
State Corporate Welfare Winner Released from Prison
The man who embarrassed state corporate welfare czars in 2010 — and Gov. Jennifer Granholm, too — by winning a $9.1 million deal from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority while on parole for embezzlement has again been released from prison. He was freed on parole Tuesday. … more
Who Tried to Stop The Kennedy Scandal Film?
Powerful folks tried to derail the Chappaquiddick film Click Here for Story
Democrats Problems in the Senate
Short on resources means big decisions on who to save? Click Here for Details
Palestinian Protests
Riots and violence back in the news Click Here for Story
Listen to Your Sheriffs?
380 Sheriffs tell Congress to secure the border Click Here for Details
Did He or Didn’t He?
Did the Pope say there is no hell? Click Here for Story
Tit for Tat
Russia expels US diplomats in retaliation for US expulsions Click Here for Details
McDonald’s expanding tuition program because of tax reforms
In one Michigan county, a union filed a federal complaint to stop an employer from giving raises, at least without its permission. 
Teacher assigns antigun assignment to students 
Great Economy helping President’s poll numbers 
Reports that AG Sessions is tired of FBI slow walk of requested Congressional subpoenas 
In a recent op-ed in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, Doug DeVos, former chair of the West Michigan Policy Forum, outlines why “criminal justice reform is the right thing to do, for all of us.” Citing Michigan’s high corrections spending and relatively high crime rate, DeVos calls for change. 
While Michigan politicians are engulfed in perennial debates over finding more money for road repairs, each year about $200 million of current state transportation revenue goes not for concrete and asphalt, but to repay debt incurred on road repairs completed years earlier. 
Middle Schooler in trouble for pointing cell phone like a gun? 
Is the giant retailer facinganti-trust laws? 
Michigan Sen. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, snarked on Twitter recently about a bill that makes it a little easier for people to earn money by shampooing hair. 
Why are they making it harder to confirm? 
Gov. Rick Snyder moved from being a skeptic of business subsidies to a supporter over time. His latest budget shows his legacy on the issue. 
State legislators are considering a package of bills that would cause Michigan’s criminal justice system to handle most cases involving 17-year-olds to be tried in juvenile courts, instead of adult courts. 
Liberal Legal Expert Alan Dershowitz says there is no evidence of Crimes by Trump Campaign 
Wasserman-Schultz wants back ground checks for Ammo? 
The liberal news media site Vox claims that a recently released data base shows that teachers in the U.S. are underpaid. It lets users look up the alleged underpayment level for each state. 
Mueller’s collusion investigation is dissolving 
The Michigan Education Association has clung to its claim that school funding was cut by a billion dollars despite its widespread debunking by numerous organizations. 
It is a travesty that state officials refuse to disclose to Michigan residents which companies are collecting how much of literally billions of state tax dollars in business subsidy payments. 
David Hogg shows the ultimate in hypocrisy 
Lib protests trash the right and the streets C
POTUS not happy with having to sign Omnibus spending bill 
John Bolton will replace General McMaster
Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israel 
POTUS orders tariffs against some Chinese goods 
The state of Michigan will save the federal government a projected $415
Bank imposing restrictions on gun sale related customers?