Andrew Roth

5 days ago | michiganadvance.com | Andrew Roth

MACKINAC ISLAND – Republican and Democratic members of Michigan’s congressional delegation alike, speaking last week at the Mackinac Policy Conference, said they are willing to work across the aisle to get things done for Michigan. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Ann Arbor) thanked Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for being willing to meet and negotiate with President Donald Trump. “The governor is trying to do what’s right for Michigan,” Dingell said.

5 days ago | michiganadvance.com | Andrew Roth

MACKINAC ISLAND – Michigan GOP Chair Jim Runestad says he is open to the idea of selecting nominees for attorney general and secretary of state through statewide primaries. Currently, the candidates are selected by delegates at each party’s convention. “I think the base of the party likes the idea of being able to have input in these statewide positions,” said Runestad, a state senator from White Lake. State Rep.

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Andrew Roth

The state department is seeking to create an “Office of Remigration” as part of a restructuring that will redirect America’s diplomatic apparatus to facilitate the Trump administration’s rightwing anti-immigration policies. The plan would effectively repurpose the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), which sought to manage and facilitate the flow of people into the United States under previous administrations, into a bureau meant to help deport immigrants from the country.

1 week ago | heraldpalladium.com | Andrew Roth

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Twp., left, and Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Twp., participates in a PAC reception during the third day of the Mackinac Policy Conference at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich., on May 29, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance)kAmkDA2? DEJ=6lQ7@?E\H6:89Ei c__jQm|przx}pr x${p}s – #6AF3=:42? =6256CD :? E96 |:49:82? {68:D=2EFC6 D2J E96J A=2? E@ DFAA@CE 2? :?:E:2E:G6 E@ 9@=5 2 4@?DE:EFE:@?2= 4@?G6?E:@?

1 week ago | michiganadvance.com | Andrew Roth

MACKINAC ISLAND – Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature say they plan to support an initiative to hold a constitutional convention to rewrite the document. The proposal automatically appears on the ballot every 16 years. The November 2026 general election will be the fourth time since the state’s current governing document, which went into effect in 1963, that voters decide whether to go back to the drawing board.