Politicians know young people tend to vote at lower rates than their elders. But Michigan college campus leaders say students are invested in the issues, but may need more help accessing voting information.
2022 Michigan election
Posted inMichigan Government
Michigan’s poll challenge rules upheld by court in blow to Republicans
The Michigan Supreme Court upholds Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance to clerks barring poll challengers from bringing phones into absentee counting stations. It’s Republicans’ second court loss involving voting rules in as many days.
Posted inMichigan Government
Gretchen Whitmer’s final push: ‘Fundamental rights’ are at stake in Michigan
As Gretchen Whitmer woos voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election, the Michigan governor works to boost turnout by highlighting her work to protect voting and abortion rights and blasting the GOP as ‘too extreme.’
Posted inMichigan Government
Tudor Dixon: Michigan GOP governor candidate’s issues, biography, controversies
What to know about Tudor Dixon where she stands, how she became Republican nominee against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and how she might govern.
Posted inMichigan Government
Gretchen Whitmer: Michigan governor’s issues, biography, controversies
What to know about the Democrat: where she stands, her four years in office, her priorities and her race against Republican Tudor Dixon.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Wind wars: Wind turbines put green energy on the ballot in mid-Michigan
Resistance to wind and solar farms is growing across the farmlands of Michigan, where locals, not the state, control site approval. Nowhere is that fight more intense than Montcalm County.
Posted inMichigan Government
Where Michigan attorney general foes Dana Nessel and Matthew DePerno stand
Not a lot of common ground between Nessel, a progressive Democrat, and DePerno, a Trump-endorsed attorney. She supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage and the integrity of the 2020 election. He opposes abortion and sees corruption in Nessel’s office and in Trump’s 2020 defeat.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | This election, prioritize Michigan’s schoolchildren on your ballot
We must ask the right questions to those running for offices this November, and those questions start with whether their priorities stand with our students or their own politics.
Posted inMichigan Government
Tudor Dixon- Gretchen Whitmer TV ads: What’s true, false and needs context
Both candidates for governor claim their opponent is too radical. Some ads push the limit in the days before Nov. 8 election.
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1.1M absentee ballots so far in Michigan. Overall turnout looks lower than ‘18
Michigan could exceed 4 million voters Nov. 8, about 300,000 fewer than 2018, when turnout broke a record.