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Micheline Maynard

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I’m a business journalist, author and podcaster, based in Ann Arbor.

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This will cost people jobs. Filmmaking is a craft.

07.03.2026 01:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blaming his drinking on Jen Garner is a good reason.

07.03.2026 01:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To whom did you switch?

07.03.2026 01:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was always Micki-san except with very close friends.

06.03.2026 22:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I bought my 1st Prius in 2008 when gas was $4 a gallon. I am on my 2nd Prius in 2026 and we may get there again.

06.03.2026 20:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tell Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

06.03.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Usually, you bow and then shake hands.

06.03.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not good for the price of things.

06.03.2026 19:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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War in the Middle East pushes diesel prices up — other costs will likely follow Diesel fuel powers trucks and trains, and a whole lot of the things we buy move by one if not both.

Diesel prices have topped $4 per gallon for the first time in nearly two years. How much further will those prices rise?

06.03.2026 19:50 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2

This is why you can’t rely on “expectations.”
Do you know someone at the VA who was laid off?
A professor who lost a grant?
An elder whose nursing home had its funding cut?
All of the above? ✅
Then it wasn’t unexpected.

06.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was harder than it had to be! He could have just said, “Arigato gozaimashite” and everyone would have applauded.

06.03.2026 17:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you know Japanese culture, you know how exceptional a greeting this is. 🇯🇵🇨🇦

06.03.2026 17:15 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Dem layoff numbers done hit, kids.

06.03.2026 13:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would say the political pressure is building now.

06.03.2026 12:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The last sentence.

06.03.2026 12:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Absolutely. There is an episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour exploring this in depth.

06.03.2026 03:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Regular reminder: you can’t give these people a platform and then act shocked or indignant when they lie. That’s disingenuous to the audience.

05.03.2026 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dolan is retired. Any time he is on the air it is his own political view, and it also steps on the toes of the new archbishop. Pope Leo needs to have a word.

05.03.2026 14:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Listening to BBC World News Hour: interviews from both Tehran and Beirut. Four headlines of other Iran related stories. Information is out there; no need to say no one is covering the story.

05.03.2026 14:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This doesn’t sound promising for Detroit Tiger fans. LA Dodgers fans, on the other hand…
Via @theathletic.com

04.03.2026 13:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We have to remember this is no longer Max Robinson CNN.

04.03.2026 00:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I may need a totebag that says, “you break it, you own it.”

03.03.2026 22:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well played.

03.03.2026 20:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have to say the timing is suspect.

03.03.2026 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It took them long enough.

02.03.2026 20:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For weeks, I’ve been listening to the BBC’s daily coverage of demonstrations in Iran. It never mentioned any threat to the U.S. Either the BBC missed that aspect or…

02.03.2026 18:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ask your Pentagon reporter whether this quote is accurate.

02.03.2026 16:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are poll workers, city clerks, county and state officials that he will have to overcome and outwit. Elections people will not willingly let this happen, because it affects all parties.

02.03.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People who denigrate rules of engagement are the first to squeal like stuck pigs when their personal rights are violated.

02.03.2026 15:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Asia.

02.03.2026 14:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0