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I cover law and politics for the Michigan Public Radio Network. Co-host of It’s Just Politics. Don’t do “second breakfast,” but I’ve been known to grab “first lunch.”

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Granholm on state budget stalemate, political divisions, and Duggan’s bid for governor Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm shares her thoughts on the budget stalemate at the state Capitol, today’s political divisiveness, and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s independent bid for governo...

Former Gov Jennifer Granholm has thoughts on MI budget crisis & this angry moment in politics:
www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...

15.08.2025 18:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“One of these days — to the moon!” -space exploration visionary Ralph Kramden

20.07.2025 22:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m trying to sit outside and read but the squirrels keep arguing w each other.

19.07.2025 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Zoe sees I put the ice cube tray in the refrigerator.

Me: Cold. Freezing cold.
It’s still cold.

06.07.2025 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Me, my kid & Velvet Bob

04.07.2025 21:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The crisis is real

30.06.2025 19:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since everyone's getting worked up by the f-bomb, l'd like the record to reflect that I was once double mother-f***ered by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.

25.06.2025 11:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At the end of all this, someone’s going to nod off whispering “rosebud”

05.06.2025 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've made it this far in life without learning how to change microwave oven temperature settings and I don't expect that will change.

16.05.2025 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Marzipanzer

20.04.2025 21:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What in the raven-driving-a-tractor is this thing?

20.04.2025 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GOP-led House committee targets Dem Jocelyn Benson over SOS election materials The Republican-led Michigan House Oversight Committee has authorized a subpoena targeting Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over unreleased election materials. A look into the rare use of a subpoena i...

The Republican-led Michigan House Oversight Committee has authorized a subpoena targeting Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over unreleased election materials. A look into the rare use of a subpoena in Lansing. @rickpluta.bsky.social

18.04.2025 18:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

"A request that this article title be changed to 2025 stock market decline is under discussion."

09.04.2025 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025 stock market crash - Wikipedia

Wikipedia already has page called "2025 stock market crash"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_st...

09.04.2025 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They're not really dire wolves and what would the consequences be of creating test tube wooly mammoths?

08.04.2025 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Is Lansing headed toward its own constitutional crisis? Part III. Michigan Court of Claims Judge Sima Patel voted the bills off the island, but didn’t send a boat.

www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...

06.04.2025 18:07 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

#banhashtags

06.04.2025 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CNN’s Dana Bash says the lines are not hard to read between when state SeMallory McMorrowow says she’ll make news soon on whether she’ll run for MI’s open US Senate seat.

30.03.2025 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On this date in 2016, Sen. Bernie Sanders won MI’s Dem presidential primary

08.03.2025 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't do "second breakfast." (I'm not a hobbit.) But I have been known to grab "first lunch."

30.01.2025 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social spox says she "is not running" for US Sen Gary Peters after MI Dem announces he won't seek reelection in 2 years.

28.01.2025 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced this morning that she is running for governor. She is the 1st Democrat to announce she is seeking her party's nomination to appear on the 2026 ballot. Benson is running to replace Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who cannot run again because of term limits.

22.01.2025 12:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

MI Senate Republican leader Aric Nesbitt announces today he is running for governor. He is first GOP hopeful to announce he is running to replace Gov Gretchen Whitmer (D), who cannot seek reelection under term limits.

14.01.2025 13:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

MI House Dem leaders issue Call of the House. lawmakers are locked in the chamber and not allowed to leave. Also, State Police can be dispatched to bring ok absent members, which right now are includes all House Republicans & Dem Rep Karen Whitsett.

19.12.2024 18:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

QOTD already goes to MPRN reporter Colin Jackson re efforts in the MI Legislature’s lame duck session by Dem majority leaders & Gov Whitmer to compel attendance & force votes on specific questions:

“If we’ve learned anything over the past three days, it’s nobody has to do anything.”

19.12.2024 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...

07.12.2024 03:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two outgoing lawmakers open up about the real Lansing On this week’s It’s Just Politics, Zoe Clark is joined by Democrat Felicia Brabec and Republican Graham Filler, two outgoing Michigan state Representatives, to talk about what their time in Lansing wa...

Zoe Clark has back-to-back It's Just Politics interviews w departing lawmakers on what's working/not working in Lansing. Reps Felicia Brabec (D) & Graham Filler (R) are heading for the Capitol doors (but w future aspirations) & offer some candid observations.

www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/its-...

05.12.2024 15:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0