This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas” ✹ Trump Betrays the Voters ✹ Representative Betsy Coffia: Surviving in a Swing District ✹ Chairperson Barnes: Government By and For the Billionaires In the News Michigan Politics and Policy Local governments take aim at Michigan’s wind, solar law in new lawsuit – Bridge Michigan AG wants to shut down charity connected to thefts from retired priests – Lansing State Journal Proposal would expand Michigan’s bottle deposit law. Some want to put a cork in it – Detroit News $$ American Agriculture Can’t Afford Another Trade War with China – MSU Professor David Ortega via Newsweek Canada and U.S. Prosperity at Risk in the Shadow of New Tariffs, Says Canadian Chamber Report  – Canadian Chamber of Commerce How Trump Could Upend Electric Car Sales – The New York Times Experts: Under Trump, GM faces volatile future with more job cuts – Detroit Free Press $$ Whooping cough cases surge in Michigan. Health officials point finger at what’s fueling them – Detroit News $$ Michigan AG’s prosecution of false electors continues after Trump win – Detroit News $$ Blue States Are Bracing for Legal Clashes With Trump – Wall Street Journal Trump’s Incomprehensible Band of[...]