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Thursday, January 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM

2026: a year to remember

Remember back to your elementary school days when you finished one grade, had the summer off, and then the challenge was to remember the lessons you covered in the previous grade and transfer that to the new grade. They call it learning.

So as they wrote into the history books the legislative year 2025, what, if anything, did the governor and the divided legislature learn that they might carry forward to 2026 which promises to be one of the more challenging years in recent memory.

How’s so? The dark cloud that will hang over ever moment is the fact that most everybody is running for reelection minus the governor, secretary of state and the state attorney general all of whom are term-limited and looking for something else to do. The SOS, Jocelyn Benson, is running for governor and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and A.G. Dana Nessel are pondering what their next move is.

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