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Goldenberg's study finds mail-in voting safe and reliable

Oct 19, 2020 The Conversation
Edie Goldenberg studied mail-in balloting as part of a National Academy of Public Administration working group. The group found that “voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can...
Edie Goldenberg
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Hanson on blue collar Michigan

Oct 14, 2020 CNBC
Macomb is "a transition county that’s very middle class and very blue collar. In some ways it’s a snapshot of Michigan overall, but also in a lot of ways it ...looks similar to a lot of the rest of the country. If the 2018 election is any indicator...
Jonathan Hanson
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Rabe on Biden's appeal to Michigan farmers

Oct 12, 2020 Business Insider
“Climate is a really hard thing to explain, especially when you’re talking about localised impacts," said Rabe. "It’s one thing to talk about wildfires or hurricanes, but hitting plants and agriculture is really significant.” Read the full...
Barry Rabe
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Wolfers on potential liability for irresponsible COVID-19 choices

Oct 6, 2020 Washington Post
"The purpose of liability law is to incentivize responsible behavior by making irresponsibility costly", said Wolfers. “We’d expect to see many more irresponsible choices being made by those taking the president’s comments to heart."  Read the...
Justin Wolfers
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Rabe on the transition away from coal

Oct 2, 2020 Chicago Tribune
“I’m hard-pressed to think of any state or analyst upbeat about the future of coal,” said Rabe. “Increasingly, the discussion is about how we can navigate a just, humane transition.” Read the full Chicago Tribune article...
Barry Rabe
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Hanson highlights tight Michigan Senate race

Oct 1, 2020 STRINGR
"The Michigan Senate race is one of the few opportunities that the Republicans have to pick up a Senate seat...Although most polls show Peters with a narrow lead, that lead is within the margin of error, and there are a lot of undecided voters,"...
Jonathan Hanson
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Rabe discusses how Democratic governors tackle climate policy

Sep 24, 2020 Environment & Energy News
“We’re in a window where a lot of Democratic governors are trying to do something related to climate, and if the executive order approach is their only route, carbon neutrality is a kind of popular step,” said Rabe.  Read the full E&E News...
Barry Rabe
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Rabe says climate concerns matter in 2020 vote

Sep 22, 2020 Environment & Energy News
"In ways that we haven't seen before, the climate and environment issues never really go away. It keeps resurfacing in ways that are relatively unique to the last 20 years or so," Rabe told E&E News. Read the full Environment & Energy News...
Barry Rabe
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Goldenberg turns up the student absentee vote

Sep 18, 2020 WEMU
"I hope that our students are going to be taking these messages [about voting] home and helping their families and their friends, whether they are students of ours or not, to take the steps that they need [to vote absentee]," said...
Edie Goldenberg
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Hanson speaks on QAnon conspiracies

Sep 18, 2020 CNN Brasil
"People who are attracted to conspiracy theories tend to be people who are feeling anxious about the world, who feel a lot of uncertainty and are looking for explanations to help them find meaning in a scenario where they feel they have lost...
Jonathan Hanson