.@MIGOP chairman @RonaldWeiser repeatedly referred to @GovWhitmer, AG @dananessel & Secretary of State @JocelynBenson as "the three witches" and made a "burning at the stake" remark in front of a Oakland Co. Republican crowd last night.

VIDEO: facebook.com/paul.taros/vid…

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Weiser also acknowledges in the video that he skipped the University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting yesterday afternoon to go recruit a Republican candidate to run for the Michigan State University Board of Trustees.
After @RonaldWeiser said @MIGOP's "job is to soften up those three witches and make sure that we have good candidates to run against them, that they are ready for the burning at the stake," he literally added, “And maybe the press heard that too.”

U-M Regent @JordanAckerMI, a Democrat, calling on Republican Regent @RonaldWeiser to resign from the university’s elected governing board.

Weiser is a @umich mega donor (north of $150M in lifetime donations) and spent years getting elected to the board.

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The stress & chaos of teaching during a once-in-a-century pandemic has some Michigan teachers weighing a departure from public education.

This month in #CrainsForum, I partnered with @chalkbeatDET for a report on teacher turnover destabilizing schools.
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How teacher churn destabilizes schools, costs taxpayers & hurts Michigan's most vulnerable students

@Chalkbeat's @levin_koby & @lamarr_lemee analyzed over 1 MILLION lines of teacher workforce data to track turnover in Mich. schools.

Eye-opening results

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Detroit @MayorMikeDuggan is turning away 6,200 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines because it's not as effective as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and preventing #COVID19 illnesses

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My column in @crainsdetroit: Why Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's rejection of J&J vaccine is dangerous in Michigan's fight to end the pandemic

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New column from me:

Michigan business leaders want political civility? Show Mike Shirkey the door.

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"Just one thing...," @SenMikeShirkey says in a hot mic moment before telling @LtGovGilchrist he won't back down about "any of the points I was trying to make" about @GovWhitmer.

The lieutenant governor just listened.

“So I read ... that the Republican majority leader in the state of Michigan went before a group of loyalists … and said, ‘What we think we saw on Jan. 6 is not the case. These were not Trump supporters. This was a hoax. It was all pre-arranged.’”

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JUST IN: @SenMikeShirkey is apologizing for comments he made in a videotaped meeting with Hillsdale County Republicans. His statement doesn't say what exactly he's apologizing for.

He's on tape saying he contemplating challenging @GovWhitmer "to a fistfight on the Capitol lawn."
Michigan GOP leader @SenMikeShirkey apologizes after calling U.S. Capitol riot a "hoax from day one"

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14 Jan
UP NEXT: Michigan Attorney General @dananessel and her Flint water investigation team led by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy are holding a press conference on today's charges against ex-Gov. Rick Snyder and his former top aides.
Nessel's press conference can be viewed live here:
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says the Flint water probe is one the largest criminal investigations "in the WORLD."

Judge David Newblatt served as the one-man grand jury (known as a grand juror since he's a jurist).
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13 Jan
Bars and restaurants can reopen Feb. 1 with mask requirements, capacity limits and a curfew, @GovWhitmer says at Capitol news conference.

She didn't have details to share yet on what the limits will be or how late the curfew will be.

Ohio has a 10 p.m. curfew. for bar closures. Image
Under today's @MichiganHHS epidemic order, here's what the state is allowing to be open and what's not through the end of January. @crainsdetroit Image
"Indoor dining brings risks because it involves taking off masks," MDHHS Director @robertmgordon says.

Gordon on two more weeks of restaurants and bars being closed to dine-in service: "Now is not the time to let down our guard."
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