WASHINGTON -- A video of Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra vowing to end all federal student loan programs has surfaced on YouTube, putting th...
The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.17.2012
Last week, Michigan GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra announced that he had raised nearly $700,000 in the first quarter of 2012. As The Huffington Po...
The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.14.2012
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra took a pounding in the polls after running that Super Bowl ad of an Asian woman speaking broken Eng...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.13.2012
WASHINGTON -- Former Republican congressman Pete Hoekstra, who is now running to unseat Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), weighed in on the Lilly Ledbet...
The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 04.05.2012
Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) enjoyed her most successful fundraising quarter ever in the wake of the controversy surrounding a negative campaign ...
Dave Adams | Posted 04.02.2012
Despite some unfair treatment of banks, the American Bankers Association's opposition to legislation that would allow credit unions to make more small business loans is simply wrong.
The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.30.2012
As Women's History Month winds to a close, HuffPost Detroit takes a moment to honor the women leaders who are toiling away for the good of Michigan an...
The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.28.2012
Homeless Michigan veterans will soon receive some much needed assistance finding a place to stay. On Tuesday, Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow,...
The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.05.2012
A delegation of scientists from across the country descended on Washington, D.C., Monday to lobby Congress for additional funding for an experimental ...
The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 02.29.2012
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is taking advantage of the controversy over contraception and women's health issues to feature its female...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- The fortunes of Michigan GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra have plummeted since his infamous Super Bowl ad featuring an Asian woman spe...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- A new super PAC has formed to support allies of the Asian Pacific Islander community after GOP Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra aired a co...
AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- Promoting farm subsidies was once a no-brainer for rural members of Congress seeking re-election. This year, it's a bit trickier. As la...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 04.08.2012
Clint Eastwood's appearance and words during the Super Bowl had little to do with Obama. For observers with a long political memory, it was hard not to think of another president when seeing that commercial.
Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 02.07.2012
In a country that often sees race in terms of White America and Black America, like Latinos, Asian Americans live in a racial middle where we must choose between being Asian (or Chinese or Filipino or Indian) or American, but not both.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) is turning the tables on one of her would-be challengers, launching a money-bomb fundraising pitch in res...
AP | By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.07.2012
LANSING, Mich. -- Criticism of a Senate campaign ad featuring a young Asian woman talking in broken English about China taking away American jobs grew...
AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.07.2012
LANSING, Mich. — The portrayal of a young Asian woman speaking broken English in a Super Bowl ad being run by U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.01.2012
Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When he first ran for president, Barack Obama...
Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 01.14.2012
A small group of Kalamazoo food activists and professionals have begun studying the Food and Farm Bill so that they can talk to and influence policymakers, two of whom will play a key role in this year's [Congressional] appropriations.
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.11.2012
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Clark Durant, speaking at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., said Thursday that the gap between the rich and poor s...
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.07.2012
WASHINGTON — Corn and soybean farmers are pushing for – and Congress is moving to create – a whole new subsidy that could maintain f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- While a majority of people who live in the United States are women, there are only 17 of them in the U.S. Senate. And if Americans turn ...
The Media Consortium | Posted 06.01.2011
President Obama made an energy speech this week that had little new to offer, while on Capitol Hill, Republicans were pushing to relieve the governm...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Democrats defeated a Republican effort to overturn health care reform on Wednesday when they blocked a repeal amendment from being added...
The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.14.2012