Meet the MCS staff: Admin team
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Public Notice: Village of Manchester
NOTICE OF HEARING OF THE PETITION OF THE VILLAGE OF MANCHESTER TO ANNEX CERTAIN TERRITORY TO THE VILLAGE OF MANCHESTER TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Village Council of the Village of Manchester, Washtenaw County, Michigan, has petitioned the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners to annex to the Village of […]
Public Notice: Bridgewater Township
BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING SYNOPSIS 7-Feb-19 The regular monthly meeting of the Bridgewater Township Board of Trustees was called to order by Supervisor Fromhart at 7:02 pm. Five board members were present (quorum) with 9 citizens in attendance. Board heard citizen participation. Board approved the 3-Jan-18 meeting minutes as presented. Board approved the […]
Public Notice: Bridgewater Township
BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP BOARD OF REVIEW MEETINGS PUBLIC NOTICE The Bridgewater Township Board of Review for 2019 will be held at the Bridgewater Township Hall, 10990 Clinton Road, Manchester, Ml 48158 on the following dates: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 7:00 pm – Organizational Meeting Monday, March 11, 2019 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and […]
GOP consultant says 7th District boundaries changed to save Walberg’s seat
DETROIT – New evidence submitted on the eve of a landmark trial challenging Michigan’s GOP-drawn legislative districts appears to strengthen the claim the maps were drawn in 2011 for partisan, Republican gain. Emails and other documents filed over the weekend in federal court show that Republicans saw the redistricting process as a way to consolidate […]
Michigan Republicans defend political maps as gerrymandering trial opens
by Joel Kurth (Bridge) DETROIT – Forget the provocative emails. And forget the funny-looking maps that shape Michigan’s political districts while you’re at it. All that matters is whether Michigan’s political districts were drawn legally – and they were, attorneys for state Republicans argued during opening arguments Tuesday of a trial in U.S. District Court in Detroit […]
Ex-Democratic chief says Michigan gerrymandering scared off candidates
by Mike Wilkinson (Bridge) DETROIT – Voters nationwide have gone to the polls hundreds of times in since 1970. Few elections have been so skewed toward Republicans as those the past few years in Michigan. That was the conclusion Tuesday of a George Washington University political scientist, who testified in the first day of a civil trial […]
Expert testifies gerrymandering in Michigan is worse than almost anywhere
by Joel Kurth (Bridge) DETROIT – Voters nationwide have gone to the polls hundreds of times in since 1970. Few elections have been so skewed toward Republicans as those the past few years in Michigan. That was the conclusion Tuesday of a George Washington University political scientist, who testified in the first day of a civil trial […]
Redistricting guru: Michigan’s maps are legal, even if process was political
by Joel Kurth (Bridge) DETROIT – Michigan’s controversial political districts were drawn in secret by Republicans and written in part to help incumbents – and there’s nothing wrong with that, one of their chief architects testified Thursday. The final witness in a three-day federal trial to determine if Michigan’s political districts are constitutional, GOP consultant Jeff Timmer […]
Meet the ex-drug cop who now helps regulate Michigan marijuana
by Riley Beggin (Bridge) In September 2017, a ballroom full of people at the Eagle Eye Golf Club north of East Lansing waited for the Michigan Medical Marihuana Licensing Board’s third-ever meeting to begin. Many of them didn’t know what to expect from the five-person panel, gatekeeper to a medical cannabis industry that had operated in a […]
