DENNIS DARNOI

Absentee ballot requests are up substantially since 2018. Currently, 1.6 million absentee ballot requests have been made, and 432,906 have already been returned.

The dust has barely settled from primary election night, and the abortion issue is the subject of an ad attacking Tudor Dixon, the GOP nominee for governor.

Thursday (May 26), five republican candidates were officially thrown off the ballot by the state board of canvassers. Those candidates include former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, Perry Johnson, Donna Brandenburg, Michael Markey, and Mike Brown.

The filing deadline for political office has come and gone and all sorts of busy bees have been combing through the candidate petitions looking for errors.

A tip to Politico claims Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has considered to run for governor, challenging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Michigan’s COVID-19 numbers getting national attention.

DETROIT Here is what was on Sunday's episode of Flashpoint:As we close in on the budget deadline in Lansing, are we headed for a shutdown? Next, it's now day 14 of strike signs and picket lines in the UAW strike against General Motors. Segment One:Dennis Darnoi, Densar Consulting; Stephen Henderson, host, WDET's Detroit Today; Zoe Clark, program director, Michigan Radio. Segment Two:John McElroy, host, "Autoline Detroit." Segment Three:Eleanor's March for HOPE with Focus Hope CEO Portia Roberson

President Donald Trump continues to tweet while Republicans disapprove and a White House press conference was held without cameras. Stephen Henderson, Editorial Page Director for the Detroit Free Press, Nolan Finley, Editorial Page Director of The Detroit News, Christy McDonald, host of MiWeek, and Dennis Darnoi, founder of Densar Consulting, joing Devin Scillian to discuss the media's role in covering the White House. And Bob Bury, Executive Director of the Detroit Historical Society, and Marlowe Stoudamire, Project Director of Detroit 1967," discuss the anniversary of the historic riots. Flashpoint is hosted by WDIV Local 4 anchor Devin Scillian. Watch Flashpoint on WDIV at 10 a.m. on Sundays