The Detroit News is reporting that Mayor Dave Bing will be reelected. With 93 percent of precincts reporting, Bing leads 58 percent to 42 percent. This is considerably smaller than the margin by which Bing beat challenger Tom Barrow in the primary.
In the city council vote, it looks [...]
Ordinance 1856, the Kalamazoo city referendum that prohibits discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, looks like it’s going to pass. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports that with 15 of 19 precincts reporting in, there are 6333 yes votes and 4007 [...]
LANSING — Jeff Wray makes a living with film. He teaches about it at Michigan State University, and his films have been shown on PBS. All that said, the film maker says if law makers need to ax the film 42 percent film incentive in order to fully [...]
DETROIT — Voter turnout has been dismal during this year’s special election and the election primary, but City Clerk Janice Winfrey expects a higher turnout for today’s election. Winfrey predicted that 20-25 percent of the city’s 572,000 voters will cast a ballot, up from the 14 percent that voted in [...]
Andy Dillon
Michigan Liberal passes on speculation from Two Joes that House Speaker Andy Dillon is going to announce his candidacy soon for the 2010 Democratic nomination to be Michigan’s governor. Color me skeptical.
I know Lt. Gov. John Cherry is not exactly anyone’s dream candidate [...]
The Detroit News reports on a new GAO analysis that indicates that the Obama administration put conditions on the loans given to GM and Chrysler that required the companies to maintain most of their current production capacity in the United States rather than outsourcing it to other countries.
Separately, [...]
After a month of operating on a continuing budget, and just days after Gov. Jennifer Granholm finally signed the last few budget bills to avoid another government shutdown, the budget situation for FY 2010, which began Oct. 1, has already deteriorated. The result: More cuts will be required on top [...]
Ed Brayton, David Alire Garcia, Todd A. Heywood, Eartha Jane Melzer, Minehaha Forman, Spencer Ackerman, Mike Lillis
