Stories by Andrew Schulman
University partners with Department of Energy for battery research
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
The University will host an advanced battery laboratory as part of a regional network for battery research, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Friday.
6th Circuit Court stays affirmative action ruling
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
On Friday, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order to stay its Nov. 15 decision striking down Michigan’s ban on affirmative action, putting the ruling on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court decides if it will hear the case.
House committee rejects state-run health exchange
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
A Michigan House of Representatives subcommittee voted Wednesday to nix a bill proposing the creation of a state-run health care exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act.
Case could head to Supreme Court
BY RAYZA GOLDSMITH
Though affirmative action became legal again in Michigan on Thursday, the change may be short-lived, according to University experts.
GOP makes final case to Michigan
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
JACKSON, Mich. — Jo Ankney hoisted up her sign, adorned with a map of a red-colored Michigan with the words “The Mitten for the Mitt” into the air repeatedly at an outdoor rally here Monday night, the last stop on the Michigan Republican Party’s “Believe in Michigan — Jobs First” bus tour.
University experts: Michigan leaning toward Obama
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN AND ALICIA ADAMCZYK
Despite polls showing a narrowing race in Michigan between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the state will likely give its 16 electoral votes to Obama, according to University experts.
Snyder canvasses state
- Patrick Barron/Daily
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
DETROIT — As a man stood up and began to ask a question to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder at a town hall forum here Thursday night, it was immediately clear the two would not agree.
Feisty U.S. Senate campaign nears end
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
A few hours after the polls closed on primary election night in 1992, Pete Hoekstra’s phone started ringing, and it didn’t stop. On the line was a cadre of local journalists scrambling to find out where Hoekstra, then a little-known candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, was holding his Election Night party.
Democrats set sights on recapturing state House
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
Though State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor) claims he is friendly with his colleague State Rep. Mark Ouimet (R–Scio Township), Irwin spent much of the summer campaigning for Ouimet’s opponent in the 52nd district election, Saline Mayor Gretchen Driskell.
College GOP looks to Dems to better image
BY ANDREW SCHULMAN
The campaign ads on television aren’t the only political messages on campus this fall competing for student attention. As the maize and blue donkey logo of the University’s chapter of College Democrats is seen on fliers across campus, the University’s chapter of College Republicans also hopes to create a name and brand for itself.
