Pod Save Michigan, a tribute to the wildly popular Pod Save America podcast, covers a variety of topics from the latest news headlines to running a business in public affairs.

On this episode of Pod Save Michigan, the Vanguard team is joined by Gongwer News Service’s Editor Zach Gorchow. We discuss Attorney General Dana Nessel’s recent news conference that captured the at...

Editor's note: MIRS asked a panel of political pundits to give their views on the Line 5 deal and Flint water crisis criminal cases, along with a couple of others that political observers might mentally categorize as things that appear to be "inevitable."

Q. Is it inevitable that the Whitmer administration and, more specifically Attorney General Dana Nessel, will see to i...

 Editor's Note: What the GOP Legislature has been doing this lame duck session has been characterized nationally as a "power grab." However, is this alleged 'power grab' a broad-based reaction to the Democrats sweeping the top statewide political races in November, or is Nessel the primary catalyst and target? MIRS asked a panel of political pundits to tackle that questi...

Editor's note: Vanguard President and CEO TJ Bucholz comments on issues that are expected to be addressed in Michigan's divided government.  For the first time in nearly a decade, Michigan’s government will be divided.

Editor's note: Vanguard President and CEO TJ Bucholz comments on the challenges Gretchen Whitmer will face as Michigan's newly elected governor. Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer, who campaigned on her ability to “get things done,” faces a challenge by needing to work with a Republican-controlled Legislature to do so.