NEW MAPS ARE HERE!

NEW MAPS ARE HERE!

“The New Maps Are Here!” Like the Steve Martin line “the new phone books are here!” everybody’s checking out the next ten year’s political landscape. This year in Michigan, the redrawn voting district maps forecast a very bumpy ride, much like Martin’s in The Jerk. From the County level to the state, the lines have been radically redrawn, and the political world has been put through a blender. By whom and to what end? At the state and Congressional level…

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GRACE AND CLASS

GRACE AND CLASS

                Politicians are generally regarded as a suspect breed, and rightly so. Our Michigan legislature can seem a never-ending sitcom of “Lawmakers Behaving Badly.” But when a lawmaker behaves with quiet courage, calm dignity, and a ferocious devotion to duty, it barely gets a mention. That’s why we need to take a minute and talk about Andrea Schroeder.                 State Representative Andrea Schroeder died October 27th, this year. The cause was stomach cancer. She was 57 years old, married, mother…

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