State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak, Birmingham, Detroit), who is running for the Democratic nod for U.S. Senator, is the darling of Instagram and MSNBC, where she asserts she is “closer to the ground” and Michigan constituents than her fellow candidates, Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-Oakland County) and former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed . “We have to meet people where they are, not expect them to come to us,” McMorrow said to political commentator

In the “don’t believe what your eyes tell you” category, as AI becomes more prevalent, political candidates are turning to artificial intelligence to craft their own narratives, even if they are blatantly false. Birmingham attorney Kevin Kijewski , who is running for the GOP nomination for attorney general, must have thought he’d gain an upper hand with the MAGA base when he posted a very false video of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on social media, allegin

The open 11th District congressional seat, created when current Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-Oakland County) announced she was running for the open U.S. Senate seat that developed when Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township) announced his retirement, is getting busier. While rumors have swirled for months (often self-generated) that Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chair Dave Woodward would jump into the Democratic primary for the seat, it’s looking less and les

While the 11th District is considered a Democratic stronghold, Republicans Anthony Paesano of Bloomfield Township and Mike Steger of Berkley have announced they are running to replace Haley Stevens in Congress. A corporate and real estate attorney, Paesano previously unsuccessfully ran for the 19th District of the Michigan House in 2022, losing to Democrat Samantha Steckloff to represent Bloomfield Township, part of Birmingham, Farmington and Farmington Hills. On his cam

Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chair Dave Woodward (D) is facing strong headwinds thanks to a scandal of his own making, after fellow commissioners and some state lawmakers questioned his paid consulting work for the Sheetz gas station chain, which is locating in several Oakland County communities. In early October, clearly in response to Woodward’s ethical debacle and some other ethical questions at the county level, highlighted by the two Detroit dailies, , Oakland

Bill Pulte , of the Pulte Homes family who is now the Trump-appointed director of the federal Housing and Finance Agency, recently created some waves when he accused Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook , from Michigan, of claiming a homestead tax exemption on both a residence in this and another state, which would result in lower property tax rates. Pulte turned his allegation, which is questionable, over to the attorney general who has the Justice Department investigating. T

The September Michigan Republicans 36th Biennial Leadership Conference on Mackinac is usually fertile ground for a number of gossip items from the get-together, starting with the observation from several of those in attendance who said that unlike other gatherings in the past couple of years, the GOP seems to be more united, much like “the old days,” as one observer’s assessment put it. As is standard practice at this confab, there was the straw poll of how Republicans viewed