Jack Lessenberry
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Jack Lessenberry: Overcoming the Morouns
Americans are justifiably outraged whenever a lawmaker is caught taking bribes or misusing public funds. But what do you suppose the voters' reaction would be if it were discovered that one very rich family was trying to buy off the Legislature solely for their own financial gain? What if that family spent millions on what amounted to legalized bribes to successfully block a project that virtually every corporation in the state agreed was essential to Michigan's economic future? We are talking about the family of Manuel J. "Matty" Moroun, the 84-year-old billionaire who owns the aging Ambassador Bridge.
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Jack Lessenberry: Health care here, abroad
For nine months of each year, Dr. Richard Keidan is an elite physician in an upscale Detroit suburb, a surgeon who specializes in removing cancer. But every three months or so, he flies across the globe to Nepal, lands in Katmandu, and then trudges into the interior.
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Jack Lessenberry: Moroun and 'justice'
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Jack Lessenberry: Durant's drive for Senate
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Jack Lessenberry: Michigan's primary
- Sunday, January 1, 2012
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Jack Lessenberry: Last white mayor of Detroit
- Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Detroit light rail out
- Sunday, December 18, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Council won't sacrifice
- Sunday, December 11, 2011
- Jack Lessenberry: Detroit and emergency manager
- Sunday, December 4, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Doug Ross, charter schools
- Sunday, November 27, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: 'Media lynching' of Kildee
- Sunday, November 20, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Fieger still political
- Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Elections provide insight
- Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Another side on bridge
- Sunday, October 30, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Conyers future on line
- Sunday, October 23, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: A warning from Frank Kelley
- Sunday, October 16, 2011
- Jack Lessenberry: Redistricting's musical chairs
- Sunday, October 9, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Worried about jobless
- Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Miles to go in this election
- Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Granholm's puzzling book
Early in her just-published autobiography, "A Governor's Story," Jennifer Granholm tells a mild falsehood that is key to understanding what her book really is about. She claims that immediately after making her victory speech, timed carefully for the 11 p.m. news, she was pulled aside by her communications director, who told her that her running mates for secretary of state and attorney general had lost. "You'll be the lone Democrat in a sea of Republicans," her "whip-smart" aide supposedly told her.
Continued ... - Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Snyder may face stiff opposition on the right
Gov. Rick Snyder has had no difficulty with the state's weak and demoralized Democrats since he burst on the scene barely a year ago. But it's now clear that the real question is whether his future attempts at reforms will be sabotaged by his fellow Republicans.
Continued ... - Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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Op-Ed: Snyder's mantra is 'relentless'
He doesn't like to wear a tie, became famous by happily calling himself a "tough nerd," and during a rare half-hour interview last week said, "I just do my thing. I just come to work and do my job the best I can."
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His name is Rick Snyder, and last November, he was elected governor of Michigan by a landslide, though it was his first run for office, and most voters had never heard his name a year before.
Today, the former under-the-radar computer executive and venture capitalist is a bitterly controversial figure.
But who is he really?
During a long interview in his office last week, the governor came across as a cheerful, let's-get-it-done executive who has no interest in ideology — except for a near-religious faith in the private sector. - Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Op-Ed: New subspecies: GOP parasiticus
When I was very young, I thought for a while I might become an entomologist, that is, someone who studies insects for a living.
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Unfortunately, I did not have the math skills for the hard sciences, and so I ended up getting paid to watch politicians instead. ... I've been studying a colony of these creatures found in the Michigan Legislature, and have made some fascinating discoveries. - Sunday, September 4, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Revise school formula?
Is it time to drastically change "Proposal A," which has been the law of school funding in Michigan for a generation?
Continued ... - Sunday, August 28, 2011
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Jack Lessenberry: Return of the train
Are the railroads part of our romantic past — or an important and growing part of Michigan's transportation future? The answer, it seems clear, is "¦ yes. ... It is just that things are more complex than they seem.
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Jack Lessenberry: Overcoming the Morouns
Recording Superstar Whitney Houston Dead at 48
Fans 'Speechless' Over Houston's Death
Romney Tops Santorum in CPAC Straw Poll
First glimpse of Blue Ivy Carter
Absolute Lin-sanity
Hate to be Rude: Bubba Watson
Peek inside Barbie's closet
Test on Comforter in Powell Unit Shows Blood
Angry Dad Shoots Teens Laptop
Hero Driver Saves Kids From Burning Bus
Funeral to be held for Powell boys
Sandusky on having to stay inside and people turning on him
Uzbek Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Kill Obama
Woolly Mammoth Caught on Camera?
Did JLo 'Assault' Marc Anthony on Camera?
Christie Brinkley's Runway Slip
Toddler forced to run half-naked in snow
Halle Wants to Leave the Country
Northern Lights shine above earth
Plane makes perfect belly landing
