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Chad Livengood
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Politics Editor & Columnist at The Detroit News

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Chad Livengood @chadlivengood.bsky.social · Jul 9
SCOOP: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed $15M for grant program championed by campaign donor Fay Beydoun

Beydoun’s grant, which ballooned to $20M, is now the subject of a criminal probe by AG ⁦‪‬⁩Dana Nessel

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed $15M for grant program championed by donor Fay Beydoun
The origins of a lucrative taxpayer grant for a Metro Detroit businesswoman trace back to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration, state records show.
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NEW: Complaint filed over Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall's Lions tickets from the team's Lansing lobbyist

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Complaint filed over Michigan House speaker's Lions tickets from team's lobbyist
Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall has refused to provide proof that he paid a lobbyist fair market value for tickets to a Lions game last month.
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December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Detroit to announce plan for redevelopment of part of former Packard Plant site

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City to announce plan for former Packard Plant on Monday
The announcement marks a milestone for the plant, which once was the site of luxury automaking but whose deterioration had once become a symbol of Detroit in decline.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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NEW: "Trucker" Randy Bishop, the outspoken right-wing radio host from Antrim County, has fled to bankruptcy court after being sued for defamation by a northern Michigan business for claiming they employ "illegal immigrants"

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Right-wing host sued for defamation over 'illegal immigrant' claims
"Trucker" Randy Bishop sought bankruptcy protection weeks after he was sued by a northern Michigan business over comments he made on his radio show.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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I know we’re not supposed to question the teachings of the Church of College Football, but paying a man $33.55 million for the next six years for wining nine games in two seasons seems — what’s the word I’m looking for? — obscene.

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November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Michigan State fires football coach Jonathan Smith -- but the Spartans will still be paying him into the next decade.

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Michigan State fires football coach Jonathan Smith
Michigan State hired Jonathan Smith to revive its football program. It’ll hire someone else to finish the job.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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'Political lightning rod': Michigan Supreme Court scraps DEI name for a commission

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'Political lightning rod': Michigan Supreme Court scraps unit's DEI references
A Democratic Party-nominated Michigan Supreme Court justice acknowledged, "‘DEI’ is now a polarizing concept in American life."
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November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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49 years in, Michigan Supreme Court to decide if man's sentence was 'cruel and unusual'

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49 years later, Michigan Supreme Court to decide if man's sentence was 'cruel and unusual'
The Michigan Supreme Court will reconsider a 49-year-old murder sentence where, the defendant argues, there was no showing of malice.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Metro Detroit expected to get 4-7 inches of snow Saturday

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Metro Detroit expected to get 4-7 inches of snow Saturday
Snow accumulation Saturday night will be heavy, the National Weather Service said.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Suspect in shooting of National Guard members in D.C. now facing a first-degree murder charge

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Suspect in shooting of National Guard members now facing a first-degree murder charge
The charges are now first-degree murder after the death of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Eminem, Jack White collab at Ford Field released as a single, Tarik Skubal weighs in

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Eminem, Jack White collab released as single, Tarik Skubal weighs in
The pair's Thanksgiving performance at Ford Field is now on streaming services, as Detroit Tigers pitcher logs a request for the newly minted duo.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Lions fans, here’s that famous Daniel Mears photo of Lions star receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown doing a headstand at Lambeau Field last November, custom cropped to be your phone’s wallpaper.

Download it and marvel, compliments of @detroitnews.com.

#OnePride
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Tips in 15-year-old missing Morenci brothers case begin anew

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Tips in missing Morenci brothers case begin anew
Publicity over the disappearance of three young brothers from Morenci in 2010 has sparked renewed interest in the case.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Sellers with disabilities launch online market with aid of retired ⁦‪DTE Energy‬⁩ executive

My story:

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Sellers with disabilities launch online market with aid of retired DTE exec
A Michigan-based group is launching an Etsy-like platform for people with disabilities to sell their art and handmade goods to a wider customer base.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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UPDATE: Two West Virginia National Guard members shot near the White House have died, the state's governor says

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Two West Virginia National Guard members shot in DC have died, the state's governor says
Governor Patrick Morrisey confirmed their deaths in a social media post.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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#Detroit City Council advances plan by Detroit City FC to build stadium, parking deck, housing

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City Council advances plan by Detroit City FC to build stadium, parking deck, housing
A 15,000-seat stadium, parking deck and apartment building are planned to go up on the site of former Southwest Detroit Hospital.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, a self-styled ethics reformer, scored Lions tickets from a Lansing lobbyist — and he won’t say how much he paid for them.

And he’s blocking a FOIA bill that would shine new light on lawmaker-lobbyist relationships.

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Michigan House speaker gets Lions tickets from lobbyist while blocking open records bill
House Speaker Matt Hall won't say how much he paid a lobbying firm for Lions tickets. He's opposing bills that could shine light on the details.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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NEW: ⁦‪Gov. Gretchen Whitmer‬⁩, a dozen-plus Michigan Economic Development Corp. employees pitched in at 'donor reception' for private foundation funding her travel

MEDC acknowledges using the state’s Great Seal for a non-state government function

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Whitmer, MEDC pitched in at 'donor reception' supporting her travel
The revelations, which came in a batch of documents obtained through an open records request, shine new light on the tangled web of relationships.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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White House Christmas tree rooted in Michigan for first time since Reagan

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White House Christmas tree rooted in Michigan for first time since Reagan
This will be the third time on record that a Michigan grower is supplying the official White House Christmas tree.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Howell Township puts pause on data centers after hundreds protest
Howell Township trustees Thursday unanimously voted in favor of a six-month pause on data center applications.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Jeff Daniels and his son and daughter-in-law to open new music venue and restaurant in downtown Chelsea

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Jeff Daniels to open new music venue and restaurant in Chelsea
JD's Stage and Bistro will have a state-of-the-art live room, a restaurant and private dining spaces.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” under its new guidelines.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Is the Ann Arbor school district hiding a biological male on the Skyline High School girls' volleyball team?

The evidence is as clear as mud.

Reporter Jennifer Chambers wades through the controversy in today’s Detroit News:

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Transgender claim shadows Ann Arbor girls' volleyball team
Skyline High School's standout season ended in the state quarterfinals amid an online furor over whether one of its players is transgender.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Trump attacks ABC reporter Mary Bruce and threatens the network's license after she asked about his family doing business in Saudi Arabia, Jeffrey Epstein and Saudi Crown Prince MBS orchestrating the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi

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Trump attacks ABC reporter after question about killing of Saudi journalist Khashoggi
After asking Bruce who she worked for, Trump called ABC “fake news” and defended his family's business operations in Saudi Arabia.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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NEW: A dark money group supporting Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer amassed $7.7M in anonymous donations in 2024, swelling in size from zero to 18 employees, newly-released tax records reveal.

It could be a presidential campaign in waiting.

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Whitmer-tied nonprofit draws $7.7M from secret donors in 2024, staffs up
The pro-Whitmer group Road to Michigan's Future can accept limitless anonymous donations and expanded its scope in 2024, tax records reveal.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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NEW: Detroit Three CEOs invited to testify before Congress for the first time since the 2008 banking and housing crisis that preceded GM and Chrysler's bankruptcies

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Detroit Three CEOs invited to testify before Congress in January for first time since 2008
The last time the heads of Ford, GM and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) testified together was at the start of the auto crisis in the Great Recession.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM