Politics Central

18/05/2022

For the second time in less than two months, Mellissa Carone has been bounced from the 2022 ballot for making false statements on the campaign affidavit she filed to run for state Senate. The state…

26/04/2022

Every election season, we see first-time candidates – often political neophytes – searching for a potentially lucrative location to run for office. They don’t declare their candidacy in their homet…

12/04/2022

It’s hard to know where to begin. The Macomb County Republic Party convention on Monday night erupted into chaos, as battling GOP factions engaged in verbal clashes and Shelby Township police moved…

22/03/2022

The three states that would suffer the most economic damage from an extended war in Ukraine include Michigan, as a months-long barrage by Russian forces and even harsher sanctions could constrict s…

03/03/2022

Macomb County experienced a dramatic drop in Covid cases and deaths in February after dealing with a virus surge in December and January. According to the Macomb County Health Department, 5,811 Cov…

01/02/2022

The election year follies are in full swing in Lansing as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republicans in the Legislature try to outdo each other to see who can offer voters the biggest tax cut. Whitmer i…

11/01/2022

Macomb County enters 2022 facing a daunting threat from the newest Covid variant, Omicron, as the number of Covid cases accelerates at a record-breaking pace and the number of people testing positi…

31/12/2021

The new Michigan legislative districts approved on Tuesday could overhaul Macomb County politics as they dramatically redraw the election maps starting next year and mark the first time that some d…

11/11/2021

The increasing divide between Red States and Blue States, between Democrats and Republicans, has led some to conclude that the solution to this destructive polarization is the formation of a third …

09/11/2021

Among those issued subpoenas by congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is a Donald Trump campaign aide who made a call to a Michigan lawmaker urging an effort to …

01/11/2021

Low-income Macomb County residents hurt by the late June flooding are eligible for one-time federal Disaster Food Assistance Program benefits. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced today that those affec…

29/10/2021

Unemployment rates fell below 3 percent in six Michigan counties in September, signaling a possible economic breakthrough despite the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The counties with t…

26/10/2021

Prosecutors will not charge a Macomb County lawmaker after an investigation into allegations from a fellow lawmaker who said he sent her threatening text messages following their breakup. The head …

18/10/2021

A new anti- Trump group of Republicans has endorsed a slate of moderate Democrats and Republicans in the 2022 congressional midterm elections, including three from Michigan, to chip away at former …

15/09/2021

Macomb County bad boy Steve Marino, a Republican state representative, has been stripped of his committee assignments and a committee chairmanship by the GOP Speaker of the House. Speaker Jason Wen…

18/08/2021

While the political consensus says that the Democrats will lose control of the U.S. House in 2022, the new census numbers released last week reveal some surprising good fortune for the Dems that mi…

13/08/2021

The 2020 U.S. Census numbers released late Thursday show that Macomb Township in Macomb County grew faster than any other city or township in Michigan over the past decade. The data show that the t…

16/07/2021

According to a new book about to hit the shelves, it was Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, who on Election Night initiated the false claim that Trump had won Michigan, long before al…

09/07/2021

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As if the Legislature’s wobbly attempt to overhaul voting rules hadn’t already gone off the rails, a new bill could create an unfair Election Day disadvantage for those with sloppy penmanship. A pr…

23/06/2021

The rocky road faced in politics by former congressman Paul Mitchell reached a new, strange plateau today as he was saluted by members of Michigan’s congressional delegation on the House floor afte…

23/06/2021

Macomb County’s premier beach on Lake St. Clair closed on Monday due to pollution problems but, according to Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller, the culprit was not her departme…

14/06/2021

Macomb County officials have declared that they will not obey gun laws that they believe stray from the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and that the sheriff and prosecutor must follow th…

04/06/2021

For the second time in 14 months, Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Macomb County has lost the opportunity to house the Air Force’s premier jet fighter, the F-35, and for the second time Michiga…

27/05/2021

If anybody could pull this off, it has to be Donald Trump. Facing multiple investigations of a criminal and civil nature, the tough-talking ex-president seems determined to make another presidentia…

21/05/2021

The delusional rantings about 2020 election fraud that inspired the ongoing “sham” audit in Maricopa County, Ariz., has led to similar efforts in Michigan, with pro-Trump attorneys and voters deman…

17/05/2021

Over the weekend, Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock sent a Twitter message from a conservative confab in Grand Rapids suggesting that Michigan should secede from the United States …

13/05/2021

Local and county officials across the state appear dumbfounded by the billions of federal dollars headed to Michigan under the Biden administration’s economic rescue plan, offering countless possib…

04/05/2021

A Macomb County project will reduce by millions of gallons the amount of sewage and stormwater that’s dumped annually into Lake St. Clair by the Chapaton retention basin. County Public Works Commis…

27/04/2021

For the fifth consecutive decade, Michigan will lose a seat in the U.S. House due to population changes that will shift the sands of the nation’s political terrain. Michigan is among the six …

26/04/2021

Over the weekend Macomb County reached a grim milestone as the death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic surpassed 2,000 deaths. The surge in Covid cases that made Michigan the nation’s hot spot for th…