Alternative dispute resolutions perhaps won the night when Washtenaw County’s judicial candidates met for a forum this week. The theme cropped up early in the event hosted Thursday, Oct. 4, by the League of Women Voters when attorney Thomas Bourque described his vision for the court, should he take the judge seat from his opponent,…
Standing in front of a camera, Lynzy Lab smiles, laughs and says that she wrote a song. The vertical camera view shows Lab, a dance lecturer at Texas State University, holding her ukulele in a YouTube video published Sunday. Days earlier, President Trump described how the national debate surrounding the sexual misconduct accusations made against…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer at an interview with Michigan residents at a citizen roundtable convened by MLive last month spoke about supporting Michigan’s teachers, who she said were feeling the effects of recent policy changes.She touted a plan for free community college. Source
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe slammed the Supreme Court’s decision allowing North Dakota to enforce a voter ID law. The law requires voters to present identification that includes a current residential street address if they want to vote in this year’s midterm elections. Native American tribe slams Supreme Court decision upholding North Dakota voter ID…
Hillary Clinton offered one of her most direct rebukes of President Trump in months on Thursday after Trump accused her of colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential election at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania Wednesday night. At the rally Wednesday night, Trump told an arena of supporters that there was “collusion between Hillary, the…
Democrats have a major edge when it comes to support among female voters, but they have struggled to lock down another key voting bloc: Latinos. While midterm voter turnout among Hispanics has historically been lower than other demographic groups, many on the left have been hoping that President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and heated rhetoric…
It was one of President Trump’s very first acts: to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping 12-nation trade agreement that had been the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s strategic “rebalance” toward Asia. Trump had charged that such deals hurt American manufacturing, and on Jan. 23, 2017, he signed the withdrawal order in the…
Trump took a victory lap during Monday’s ceremonial swearing-in ceremony, praising himself for getting controversial judge Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court over the weekend. He even went so far as to boast that Kavanaugh had been “proven innocent” of sexual assault allegations. [You can click here to watch the full swearing-in ceremony, compliments…
President Trump has repeatedly claimed that Democrats’ “Medicare for all” proposal would send the United States into an economic tailspin similar to Venezuela’s. This warning is wrong about the root causes of Venezuela’s crisis and ignores that Mr. Trump himself previously championed single-payer health care. Trump Falsely Claims That ‘Medicare for All’ Would Turn the…
Dissatisfaction with President Trump among Nevada voters has not had quite the ripple effect Democrats are hoping for in the state’s highly competitive Senate race, and turnout among Hispanics for that contest in November remains a key question for the party, according to results in a New York Times/Siena College poll this week. The Biggest…