The two options before the Michigan Supreme Court: Approve a massive reform ballot petition and give voters a chance to decimate all the structural gains Republicans have worked for over the last 20 years or reject it and live with the consequences.
State Senate Minority Leader Mark Schauer responded to your questions, saying he would hold President Bush accountable for "abuses" and work to change policy in Iraq. He even managed a kind word for U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg. That and more after the jump.
If you have questions for Senate Minority Leader and congressional candidate Mark Schauer, who is in the hot seat of the Capitol Journal's Q&A this week, get them in now or forever hold your peace.
The front page of Saturday Lansing State Journal will have a profile of Nate Silver, the East Lansing native who runs the wildly popular blog FiveThirtyEight.com. Here are some of Silver's predictions for Michigan we couldn't fit in the paper.
DELTA TWP. - Never underestimate the power of little girls to steal a show, even from the Senate Minority Leader.
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Lt. Gov John Cherry is "receptive" to the idea of calling a constitutional convention, plans to balance the state's budget through cuts, not taxes, and is not related to hockey commentator Don Cherry. Those answers to your questions and more below the jump.
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Senate Minority Leader and 7th District congressional candidate Mark Schauer will be our next guest on the Capitol Journal Q&A, so get those questions in!
That's what my mother would say when I came home grousing about how I got some atrocious grade in middle school when I didn't do a lick of homework. And that's the message legislative leaders should take in the wake of a massive ballot proposal currently being circulated that could drastically change life as they know it.
As with most important things, the Michigan Legislature had a golden opportunity to do something right and shanked it. In this case, it was passing the school aid budget before the school district budget deadline.
The headline is a bit cheeky, but the budget is agreed to in principle and should be passed today. No, you're not dreaming. That and more on a busy, busy Friday below the jump.
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