Unlimited Control, Unchecked Tragedy
It’s been a brutal year. COVID-19 has carved a deadly path across the globe. Since the first two cases were identified in Michigan just over one year ago, thousands of our friends, family members, colleagues and neighbors have lost their lives to the virus. Isolated...
What is Whitmer hiding?
Secret deals. Hush money. Six-figure paydays to buy the silence of failed senior administration officials. And all on taxpayers’ dime. This week brought troubling public revelations about Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s common and expensive use of tax dollars to fund hush...
Another Whitmergency
Governor Whitmer made headlines last weekend declaring a propane energy emergency in the state of Michigan because of low temperatures that caused real energy problems in a lot of other states. The problem with her order, though, is that according to the state’s...
Forcing Benson’s Hand
Last June, my friends at the Honest Elections Project and I took Jocelyn Benson to court and this week we held her accountable. Our federal lawsuit sought to force the Secretary of State to comply with the National Voter Registration Act. We presented...
Opinion: Whitmer is silent on state police’s encrypted text message scandal
This column originally appeared in The Detroit News. “A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both.” – James Madison, 1822. One wonders what the father of our...
Caught in a COVID-19 Cover-up
The bombshell exploded late Thursday. An aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted to lawmakers on a video conference call that the state covered up the number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 in order to avoid prosecution over their disastrous...
Sending the Wrong Signals
There’s a simmering transparency crisis at the state Capitol, and the press is turning up the heat. Late in January, the Detroit Free Press reported that high ranking members of the Michigan State Police were caught using a third party app on their state...
In the Trenches: Gov. Whitmer’s (Mis)State of the State
The State of the State is… Unemployed
Wednesday evening, Governor Gretchen Whitmer took to the airwaves to deliver her third State of the State address. She lobbed a few talking points from the Biden administration, hyped the new President’s slogan, and talked a lot about bipartisanship. We caught up with...
Video: The REAL State of the State?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2odb0Hjlfo
