Michigan Politics Information Directory

Editor's Note: Former newspaper publisher and University of Michigan Regent Phil Power is a longtime observer of Michigan politics and economics and a former chairman of the Michigan chapter of the Nature Conservancy. ...

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Woodward One Media in Royal Oak is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with MLive, designed to provide expanded live streaming video coverage of Michigan events, activities, business and politics. ...

Michiguide.com is Michigan's Guide to Radio and Television Broadcasting. Featuring the Michigan Broadcast Guide, comprehensive listings of Michigan Radio and Michigan Television stations, daily broadcasting news, history, and other tools. ... The host of Politics & Life talk show has created three segments just for Detroit Public Schools students to participate in. A regular segment on the show, The Honor Student Showcase, will be hosted by Dexter Perry, Taylor Trammell ...

All politics may be local but in the past few election cycles Michigan's seventh congressional district has been an excellent indicator of the nation's political currents. With less than five months before the primary, ...

A former Detroit councilwoman married to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. was sentenced to 37 months in prison Wednesday for accepting bribes from a waste-management company trying to win city business. Monica Conyers is appealing the sentence ...

Gov. Jennifer Granholm finally moved toward real leadership last week, seven years and six weeks after taking office. With state government facing its most dangerous financial crisis ever, she moved to try to save education, our hope for a better ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- With a record 1.7 million people in Michigan now receiving food and cash assistance from the state, a group of House Republicans has put together a package of bills to ferret out fraud in the system. Among their targets: college ...

Lansing -- Michigan gubernatorial candidates counting on public matching funds to boost their campaign spending are in for a bit of a shock. Instead of getting up to $2 for every $1 they receive from small donors, candidates will get 26 cents per ...

GENESEE COUNTY -- Dan Kildee's bid to be Michigan’s next governor is coming to an abrupt end just one week after it started . The former county treasurer and chairman of the county's Land Bank Authority told The Flint Journal he will announce ...

Lansing -- The first major organized labor endorsement in the race for governor has gone to Democrat Andy Dillon. Dillon received an endorsement today from the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council. The group represents nearly 100,000 ...

Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak has said that he has about a dozen votes against the bill unless the language is toughened in restricting federal dollars for abortion. But leaders question whether the members of his group will stick together.

Carpenter was accused last September of setting fire to Jeffrey Hart's van at a campground on Lake Audubon after a dispute with the Michigan man over a fish filet knife. Authorities say Hart suffered burns on his hands, arms and legs.

U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee meets with George O'Hara at the Page Street Senior Center in West Branch, Mich., Monday, March 8, 2010. Stupak withstood President Bill Clinton's charm offensive and voted against free-trade legislation and now is ...

WEST BRANCH, Mich. -- Rep. Bart Stupak has become the unofficial leader of a small but powerful bloc threatening to derail President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. A dozen socially conservative Democrats say they won’t support the ...