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Meet the Candidates: Floyd Brown for Lake County Probate Judge
Friday , 20, September 2024 Candidates, Election 2024 Leave a commentLake County’s primary election on August 6, 2024, eliminated a long list of candidates for Lake County Probate Judge. Of the two remaining candidates, one of them is a Lake County resident with real community roots and an impressive career history. That candidate is Floyd Brown. Floyd Brown graduated from Baldwin High School in 1984. […]
Frisky Friske Update: Nazi Legacy OUT – DeVos Stooge Running for Jodi Decker’s Seat
Wednesday , 7, August 2024 Candidates, Election 2024, Enbridge Line 5, Meet the Candidates 2024 Leave a commentThe dust settled over Michigan after the primary election on August 6, 2024, and there were happy surprises. In State House District 107, Neil Friske (R-Watch me chase a stripper while armed and receive no charges!) lost his primary race to represent the Northern Lower Peninsula and Eastern Upper Peninsula district for another term. In […]
Crib Fit For a Judge UPDATE: It’s Legal But is it Honest?
Tuesday , 30, July 2024 Candidates, Community, Election 2024 Leave a commentThere have been new developments in the case of the Lake County probate judge who lives in a 600-square-foot three-season hunting cabin in the woods. David Glancy claims his main homestead is 10211 East 16th Street in Lake County. But does he live there? Until recently, according to one source, the answer was no. Glancy […]
Crib Fit For a Judge: The Curious Case of Judge Glancy’s Lake County Home
Friday , 5, July 2024 Candidates, Election 2024 2 CommentsOccasionally, the Up North Progressive receives a tip from a reader about strange things happening with political candidates. This time, the tip is about a candidate for probate judge in Lake County and the case of his home address. David M. Glancy is the current Probate Court Judge of Lake County. He was appointed to […]
The Beginner’s Primer to Running For Public Office: Online Platform
Saturday , 25, November 2023 Candidates, Election 2024 Leave a commentSo, you’ve decided to run for public office. Wonderful. You’ve committed the next 12 to 24 months to campaign staff strategy meetings, public appearances, media interviews, and meeting your future constituents face-to-face. It would help if you listened to what they had to say. That means time spent knocking on doors, holding coffee cloches, meet […]
16 Fake Electors Receive Felony Charges in Michigan: 2020 election hindsight
Wednesday , 19, July 2023 Candidates, Election 2020, MAGA, Sad! Leave a commentWhen the news broke yesterday afternoon that Attorney General Dana Nessel filed criminal charges against 16 fake electors who tried to overturn the 2020 election in Michigan illegally, the first name that popped into the Up North Progressive’s head was Gary Eisen. Gary Eisen was the old 81st State House district rep in 2020. He […]
What the Hell is Going On With Jack O’Malley’s Website
Sunday , 16, August 2020 Candidates, Election 2020 1 CommentRemember a while back when we visited Jack O’Malley’s website and among the poor grammar, stock images, and not much of anything else, we found this? Well, there’s more! Just reading a few lines makes it plain whoever developed this website English is not their first language. Nothing wrong with that, but it helps if […]
Recall Inman Committee Submits Petition Language to Recall 104th State House Representative Larry Inman
Tuesday , 23, July 2019 Candidates, Elections Leave a commentPetition language for a recall campaign on State Legislator Larry Inman (R – 104) was submitted to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers by the Recall Inman Committee on Friday, July 19, 2019. Petition canvassers will have 60 days to collect 12,000 signatures to trigger a special election and remove Inman from his seat once […]
@SenVanderWall and the Big Star Lake Beach Wars: An Angry Constituent Reaches Out to Up North Progressive
Sunday , 9, June 2019 Candidates, Community, Michigan Republicans 1 CommentUp North Progressive enjoys receiving comments from readers. Sometimes they are messages of appreciation and support for the content. Sometimes they are messages full of vitriol from conservatives for telling the truth. There are even times when readers make threats because they really hate the truth. Once in a while, a reader leaves a comment […]
SCOTUS Save Us: Northern Michigan Republicans Whine Over the Big Mess the GOP Made of the States’ Voting Districts
Monday , 29, April 2019 Candidates, Gerrymandering The Vote Leave a commentThe effectiveness of REDMAP is perhaps most clear in the state of Michigan … The 2012 election was a huge success for Democrats at the statewide level in Michigan: voters elected a Democratic U.S. Senator by more than 20 points and reelected President Obama by almost 10 points. But Republicans at the state level […]