The buzz about Michigan State Represenative Mari Manoogian (D-Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township) seems to have taken on a life of its own in this year. Earlier in the 2020 campaign drive she got a personal boost when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer showed up at a priv...

We understand the game of writing endorsements better than most but even we could feel the personal pain when the Detroit Free Press editorial board came out with its October 19 endorsement of Democrat David Coulter for Oakland County Executive, who we also supported. In bac...

You know you’re not winning a popularity contest when the leadership of your own political party disavows you. That’s what has happened with GOP state House candidate Paul M. Smith, a former Sterling Heights city council member who was running to represent the 25th District...

As we all learned when the FBI and Michigan State Police arrested several members of the Wolverine Watchmen, an armed militia group who had plans to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because they were unhappy with her coronavirus restrictions, our elected officials are facing unp...

We’ll just say it. Republican Eric Esshaki of Birmingham, who was running in the general election to replace Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens to represent Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Clawson, western Oakland County and parts of western Wayne County, really shou...

We don’t know what Michigan GOP Chairwoman Laura Cox has to say on this, but we imagine she may not approve. Republican activist Brandon Hall, who was found guilty of election fraud in 2016, announced on October 1 he was running for the state Republican Party chair “to decla...

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard wasted no time in hitting the campaign trail (figuratively) over the Labor Day weekend with a oversize postcard mailing which took an interesting approach. No mention on either side of the card that Bouchard is a Republican, with one h...