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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: Holding Trump to His Promises
✹ Two Michiganders Honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
✹ Endangering Our Health
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Data Breaches: What to do Next – Attorney General Nessel
- Michiganders George Romney, Earvin “Magic” Johnson among Biden’s Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients – The Washington Post
- Detroit on pace for fewest killings since 1965, fewest carjackings ever – Detroit News $$
- Michigan moms get cash each month to ease financial troubles. Does it work? – Bridge Michigan
- Michigan landlords can’t deny renters based on source of income – Detroit News
- DNR’s possible lease of Michigan forest land for solar farm rankles lawmakers – Detroit News $$
Trump Grifting
- Trump Fans Are Finding Out How Much He Actually Cares About Them – The New Republic
- Trump Eyes Axing These Key Programs to Help His Friends Get Richer – The New Republic
- As Musk gains influence, questions hover over US probes into his empire – Reuters
- Judge sets Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case but signals no jail time – AP News
- Appeals court upholds $5 million award in sexual abuse verdict against Donald Trump – AP News
- Dr. Oz Has a Checkered Health Care Record: What to Know About Key Issues – The New York Times
- Trump Insists He Was ‘Right About Everything’ After Wrongly Tying New Orleans Attack to Immigration – Daily Beast
- Trump Backers, Including Elon Musk, Clash With Far Right Over Immigrant Workers and H-1B Visas – The New York Times
- Trump Skewered After His Wildest Canada Post Yet – The New Republic
- Trump demands end to North Sea ‘windmills’ in swipe at UK energy policy – Reuters
Across the Nation
- Jimmy Carter’s anti-corruption legacy is being desecrated – Public Notice
- Trans rights to be marquee fight for House Republicans – POLITICO
- Stocks on Pace for Best Two Years in a Quarter-Century – Wall Street Journal
- US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year – ABC News
- E.V. Demand Leads Automakers to a Strong 2024 Finish – The New York Times
- Texas sues to impose bigotry on the rest of the country – Public Notice
- When a Kansas law forced voters to prove citizenship, a fiasco followed – AP News
- Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg runs for Democratic committee post: ‘We can’t win without young voters’ – The Guardian