Biden in MI, Detroit flooding, jobs report, MI budget
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Michigan Policast for Monday, July 5, 2021
- House Fiscal Agency scandal of 1993 & how it may be a warning for Weisselberg
- Independence Day! POTUS & other VIPS visit the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City
- Detroit-area floods
- Polls: approval, infrastructure, vaccines, pandemic
- Jobs and unemployment
- Michigan budget goes undone, despite GOP's 2019 legislation
- Republican gubernatorial pipedreams
- Michigan's new vaccine incentive: MI Shot to Win
- The battle over voting rights
- Political notes
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- Pre-segment segment: House Fiscal Agency scandal of 1993 & how it may be a warning for Weisselberg
- Segment one: Independence Day! POTUS & other VIPS visit the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City
- Segment two: Detroit-area floods
- Segment three: Polls: approval, infrastructure, vaccines, pandemic
- Segment four: Jobs and unemployment
- Segment five: Michigan budget goes undone, despite GOP's 2019 legislation
- Segment six: Republican gubernatorial pipedreams
- Segment seven: Michigan's new vaccine incentive: MI Shot to Win
- Segment eight: The battle over voting rights
- Segment nine: Political notes
- Comments
House Fiscal Agency scandal of 1993 & how it may be a warning for Weisselberg
- Eric Freedman Ph.D. – Knight Center for Environmental Journalism Chair and Professor
- James Mitzelfeld on LinkedIn
- In Case Against Trump’s Company, Echoes of His Father’s Tactics on Taxes – The New York Times
- Michigan House Scandal Strips Veteran Lawmaker Of Power
- Leaders act quickly in fiscal agency scandal
- U.S. v. Morberg
- The Scandal, 20 Years Later
- Welcome to the House Fiscal Agency
- Trump Organization, CFO Allen Weisselberg Charged With Tax Crimes
- Prosecutors charge Trump Organization with a 15-year tax scheme
- Prosecutors allege a 15-year tax fraud scheme as the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg are arraigned on multiple criminal charges
- Weisselberg, ‘Soldier’ for Trump, Faces Charges and Test of His Loyalty
- Trump biographer explains Ivanka Trump ‘is in peril' along with Allen Weisselberg
On this day in 1994:
Eric Freedman and Jim Mitzelfeld of @DetroitNews win @PulitzerPrizes for reporting that discloses flagrant spending abuses at Michigan's House Fiscal Agency. pic.twitter.com/pBEZ3PYrby— Ken Coleman (@HistoryLivesDet) April 12, 2019
“You didn’t pay tax on the car or a company apartment…you didn’t pay tax, or education for your grandchildren — I, don’t even know what do you have to put? Does anybody know the answer to that stuff?”
Prosecutors call this an admission… pic.twitter.com/3Myuzy0cB9
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 4, 2021
Donald Trump Jr. Concedes Felony Count In Indictment Against Dad's Company Is True https://t.co/pSF0O1urT3
— TrumpRussiaTies Mapping Project (@TrumpRussiaTies) July 4, 2021
Mad Magazine 1992. They clearly knew what a shit-brick he was back then. pic.twitter.com/dUKMgMEGX5
— Richard N. Ojeda, II (@Ojeda4America) July 4, 2021
Independence Day! POTUS & other VIPS visit the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City
- ‘Cherry pie’ brings President Joe Biden to Michigan ahead of Fourth of July (includes a great photo gallery)
- Biden told of ‘rough year' during cherry farm tour in Antrim County
- Biden tours Up North orchard, says he came for the cherry pie
- National Cherry Festival
Why Traverse City one might ask? 1) the entire region highlights us coming back together; 2) its an amazing town/region; 3) it’s smart politics—places
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