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Politics & Elections

Anti-Trump campaign targets Michigan with voices of disaffected Republicans

Republican Voters Against Trump launched a $50 million ad campaign featuring homemade testimonial videos from remorseful voters

By Steve Neavling
Apr 15, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Donald Trump, election, politics, Republicans, Political Action Committee, Republican Voters Against Trump, Joe Biden
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: ‘Romney’ McDaniel takes her turn driving the GOP clown car

No longer just a local joke, Michigan Republicans are now a national punchline

By Joe Lapointe
Apr 1, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Lapointe, Views & Opinions, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Michigan Republican Party, Donald Trump
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: Trump’s trail of ‘blood’ goes back (at least) to Michigan

Trump runs a blood-curdling campaign of doom and gloom, fear and smear

By Joe Lapointe
Mar 25, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Views & Opinions, Donald Trump, 2024 election, Macomb County, Joe Biden
Politics & Elections

Quinnipiac poll: Trump leads Biden in Michigan

The Quinnipiac University survey also found strong support among Democrats for Gov. Whitmer to run for president in the future

By Lee DeVito
Mar 14, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Media, News, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer, 2024 presidential election
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: Could Michigan’s ‘uncommitted’ vote tip the election to Trump?

If so, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson will need to learn Russian

By Joe Lapointe
Mar 4, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Media, Views & Opinions, Lapointe, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Dearborn, Hamtramck, Listen to Michigan, Michigan Arab Americans, Michigan Muslims, Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Republican Party, Slideshow
Politics & Elections

Marianne Williamson ‘unsuspends’ her presidential campaign as Americans watch ‘car crash in slow motion’

Her re-entry into the race comes one day after both Biden and Trump showed vulnerabilities in Michigan’s primary election

By Steve Neavling
Feb 28, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Marianne Williamson, Politics, election, Donald Trump, President Biden, universal health care, student debt, tuition-free college, democrats, primary election
Food News

Chick-fil-A is coming to downtown Detroit

The fried chicken chain continues its expansion into Michigan

By Lee DeVito
Feb 22, 2024

Tags: Food News, Restaurants, Chick-fil-A, downtown Detroit, Dan Gilbert, fried chicken in metro Detroit, Slideshow
Politics & Elections

Flint mayor Neeley warns Democrats of Black voter exodus

Polls show an increasing number of Black voters are pulling away from the Democratic Party

By Steve Neavling
Feb 22, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, Sheldon Neeley, Flint, Sam Riddle, National Action Network, Michigan, Michigan Democratic Party, President Biden, Donald Trump, election, politics
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: Watch out, Detroit. Sore loser Donald Trump is watching you.

The big demagogue makes a muscular new friend in Waterford Township

By Joe Lapointe
Feb 19, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Lapointe, News, Views & Opinions, Donald Trump, Waterford, 2024 election, Joe Biden, Michigan Republican Party, Slideshow
Politics & Elections

Metro Times endorses ‘uncommitted’ in 2024 presidential primary

The Listen to Michigan campaign is urging voters to send a message to Biden over Gaza

By Metro Times editorial staff
Feb 15, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Views & Opinions, Government, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Gaza, Arab Americans in metro Detroit, Dearborn, Listen to Michigan
Drink News

Dan Gilbert is bringing back Saksey’s, a bar owned by his father in the ’70s

The cocktail lounge is planned for the lower level of the forthcoming Gilly’s Clubhouse & Rooftop

By Randiah Camille Green
Feb 14, 2024

Tags: Drink News, Bars, Local Businesses, Restaurants, Dan Gilbert, Nick Gilbert, downtown Detroit, Saksey’s Cocktail Lounge, Gilly’s Clubhouse & Rooftop
This Modern World

The mission

By Tom Tomorrow
Feb 7, 2024

Tags: This Modern World, LOL, This Modern World, Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, The Grammys, Donald Trump, MAGA
Politics & Elections

Biden celebrates UAW endorsement in Macomb County

This is the second time in recent months that Biden has come to Michigan to talk with UAW members

By Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance
Feb 2, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Government, Labor, Joe Biden, UAW, Shawn Fain, Donald Trump, Gretchen Whitmer
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: Reading lyrics to ‘The Snake,’ Donald Trump speaks with a forked tongue

And his scary signature also says more than he knows

By Joe Lapointe
Jan 29, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Views & Opinions, Lapointe, Donald Trump, immigrants, 2024 election, Joe Biden
Politics & Elections

UAW endorses Biden as Trump maintains lead in Michigan

Shawn Fain: ‘We can stand up and elect someone who wants to stand with us and support our cause’

By Steve Neavling
Jan 24, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Labor, Shawn Fain, United Auto Workers, labor union, Donald Trump, President Biden, Michigan, politics, election
Politics & Elections

Lapointe: For a true evangelical, weaponized religion is a big sin

But local journalist Tim Alberta renews his faith in Lions

By Joe Lapointe
Jan 22, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, Lapointe, Sports, Views & Opinions, Donald Trump, Tim Alberta, Republican Party, Detroit Lions, Christianity
Politics & Elections

MIGOP members vote to remove Karamo, her supporters rip the effort as ‘illegitimate’

Karamo, a 2020 election denier, has vowed not to step down

By Kyle Davidson, Michigan Advance
Jan 8, 2024

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Kristina Karamo, Michigan Republican Party, Donald Trump
Politics & Elections

Michigan Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in lawsuit seeking to bar Trump from primary ballot

Michigan law differs from that in Colorado, whose state Supreme Court ruled that Trump was ineligible to appear on that state’s primary ballot

By Jon King, Michigan Advance
Dec 27, 2023

Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Government, 2024 election, Michigan politics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden
Restaurant reviews

Le Suprême brings a French flair to downtown Detroit

The Book Tower restaurant is modeled after French brasseries

By Tom Perkins
Dec 21, 2023

Tags: Restaurant reviews, Restaurant Reviews, Views & Opinions, Le Suprême, downtown Detroit restaurants, Dan Gilbert, Bedrock Detroit, Book Tower, Slideshow
Metro Detroit

Majority of Detroit-area voters support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, poll finds

The new survery found that 53% of Detroit-area voters disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of the conflict

By Layla McMurtrie
Dec 20, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Middle East, Ceasefire Now, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Rashida Tlaib, Slideshow