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Tim Skubick | Politics Columnist for MLive.com
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Skubick, host of "Off The Record" on PBS, has covered Michigan politics and government longer than any other political journalist in state history, starting with the swearing-in of former Gov. William Milliken in 1969.Zip Code: 48933
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Tim Skubick: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says 'take my name off the list' for governor
Posted on Lansing News on December 05, 2014, 5:33AM
With apologies to those are still recovering from the last election, but the speculation machine is in full gear on the next race for governor that is four long years down the road. And the machine is grinding out names including that of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. Those folks who handicap this sort of stuff can make a case for... Full story »
Tim Skubick: Should lawmakers voting against tax hike for roads face consequences?
Posted on Lansing News on December 04, 2014, 5:02AM
One lawmaker asks: If you are not willing to pony up a tax hike vote, why the heck should your hometown get any of the money? Full story »
Tim Skubick: Democrats will do deep dive into official elections results to figure out what went wrong
Posted on Lansing News on December 03, 2014, 5:29AM
Michigan Democratic Party chairman Lon Johnson will wait for the state elections bureau to release official results on Dec. 20 to figure out what worked, and what didn't. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Brady Hoke for governor?
Posted on Lansing News on December 02, 2014, 7:38AM
Let us count the ways how this could make sense - NOT. Full story »
Tim Skubick: A one-on-one interview with outgoing U.S. Sen. Carl Levin
Posted on Lansing News on November 26, 2014, 10:32AM
It is quite a story: the former taxi cab driver, auto worker, Detroit City Council member and then U.S. Senator has seen it all. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Latest poll diagnoses 65 percent of voters with selective hearing
Posted on Lansing News on November 25, 2014, 7:28AM
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer received plenty of votes from people who loved his plan, but had no concept of how he'd pay for it. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Democrats swept education seats in November election - except one
Posted on Lansing News on November 24, 2014, 5:27AM
Michigan State University lost a Democratic incumbent. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Who is Elliott and who is Larsen? Groundbreakers, that's who
Posted on Lansing News on November 23, 2014, 5:33AM
Read about who's behind the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act in Michigan. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Incoming tea party legislator violates the 11th commandment
Posted on Lansing News on November 19, 2014, 5:08AM
Tea party Rep.-elect Todd Courser blasts the current GOP Speaker of the House, Jase Bolger, who's seeking a compromise on the issue of equal rights for the LGBT community. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Working in the Legislature takes chemistry; will the new leadership have it?
Posted on Lansing News on November 18, 2014, 10:50AM
Will Kevin Cotter, incoming Michigan Speaker of the House, and the other three leaders who make up "the quadrant" have the chemistry needed - with each other and Gov. Rick Snyder - to get things done? Full story »
Tim Skubick: Democrats must figure out how to leverage power in more conservative Legislature
Posted on Lansing News on November 17, 2014, 5:39AM
New Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, (D-Flint) is pretty candid about the lack of leverage he will have with only 11 Democratic votes in the new legislative year. Full story »
Tim Skubick: GOP in firm control of everything, so what's to stop them?
Posted on Lansing News on November 16, 2014, 5:42AM
The GOP ignored voters who wanted to go in a different direction - on such topics as emergency managers and minimum wage. But a governor's veto can stop them. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Thanks to term limits, 44 fresh-faced newcomers enter the Capitol
Posted on Lansing News on November 14, 2014, 7:33AM
Welcome to the Michigan Legislature, where each Capitol correspondent has the task of learning the names and faces of 44 new lawmakers. Full story »
Tim Skubick: A minimum wage ballot issue would have turned out Democrats for Election 2014
Posted on Lansing News on November 13, 2014, 5:27AM
Barack Obama couldn't do it. Mark Schauer couldn't do it. Ditto for state Democratic Party chair Lon Johnson. The trio huffed and puffed but they could not convince more Democrats to show up last Tuesday, which is why Rick Snyder is governor again. However there was a silver bullet that could have turned the tide but the governor and legislative... Full story »
Tim Skubick: Popular wisdom doesn't prevail once you sift through 2014 election results
Posted on Lansing News on November 12, 2014, 5:23AM
Pundits are still sifting the results of last Tuesday’s balloting in the race for governor and the popular wisdom crowd took some hits. Full story »
Tim Skubick: Democratic Party accomplished plenty in 2014, but they still took a thumping
Posted on Lansing News on November 10, 2014, 7:20AM
It was a gallant effort to turn a lemon into lemonade but when Democratic Party chair Lon Johnson was done with his six-page post election dissertation, he could not erase the thumping his side took last Tuesday. In case you missed it, other than Gary Peters who won the U.S. Senate seat and the party picking up some obscure... Full story »
Tim Skubick: Taxing pensions didn't come back to haunt Gov. Rick Snyder
Posted on Lansing News on November 09, 2014, 6:20AM
Turns out the governor was right and his political insiders were dead wrong. If Democrats had any hope of defeating Gov. Rick Snyder, they knew the seeds for that were planted just weeks after he came into office for the first time. Let’s set the stage. The governor, the political outsider from Ann Arbor with zero Lansing experience under his... Full story »
Tim Skubick: Expanding Michigan's civil rights law to include LGBT just got more dicey
Posted on Lansing News on November 07, 2014, 5:57AM
A more conservative legislature and the court decision to uphold the gay marriage ban make things more complicated. Full story »
Tim Skubick: What went right and wrong in Gov. Rick Snyder's re-election campaign
Posted on Lansing News on November 05, 2014, 7:03AM
Gov. Rick Snyder won - almost despite his non-confrontational style of campaigning - although he made a point that his victory came because of a positive campaign. Full story »
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