{"id":381150,"date":"2026-10-23T22:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381150\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:04:17","slug":"who-will-michigan-voters-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381150\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Michigan Voters Choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nToday, we\u2019re looking at how Michigan voters are feeling ahead of the midterms, the problems with Medicare for All, and a writer\u2019s defense of Brooklyn\u2019s Gowanus neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Aaron J. Thornton \/ Stringer \/ Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\nEarlier this month, Manhattan Institute convened three focus groups of Detroit voters. They represented a range of ages, races, and political backgrounds. They disagreed about many things, but almost all raised concerns about grocery bills, health-care costs, and gas prices.<\/p>\n

\nSome Democrat respondents expressed frustration with President Trump but also criticized their own party, which they said was \u201cchaotic\u201d and \u201cdisjointed.\u201d Some were skeptical of Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, with one participant referring to him as \u201canti-American.\u201d Others worried about his appearances alongside streamer Hasan Piker.<\/p>\n

\nEnthusiasm for Republican Mike Rogers wasn\u2019t exactly strong, either. \u201cParticipants described him as self-serving, questioned his ties to pharmaceutical interests, and worried that he was too closely aligned with Trump,\u201d Jesse Arm, Matthew Shor, and Karl Abramson write. \u201cFor some, that last concern was sufficient reason to support El-Sayed despite reservations about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWhen asked to make their final selection, ten participants chose Rogers, six chose El-Sayed, and four were undecided.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> about how Michigan voters are feeling about the midterms.<\/p>\n

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This year, health insurance premiums will rise by 20 percent in some U.S. states. Some plans refuse to pay for services that physicians recommend, while others saddle families with enormous deductibles before coverage kicks in. It\u2019s no wonder Americans feel frustrated with private health insurance.<\/p>\n

\nFor all the problems with the American health-insurance system, though, making government the sole purchaser of health care would present major obstacles of its own. The proposed Medicare for All Act, for instance, would cap total revenues at each hospital as a core financing mechanism. That, in turn, would reduce the number of patients hospitals can treat while making care more expensive for those who are treated.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cMedicare for All may be a popular slogan, but the policies that would be necessary to make it work would not be,\u201d Chris Pope writes. Expanding it \u201cto all Americans would mostly raise taxes to cover the costs of wealthier Americans who are already well-insured. It would also force Americans off their current private health-care plans and reduce their access to care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nEarlier this month, New York published a not-so-positive feature about Brooklyn\u2019s Gowanus neighborhood. Built around the Gowanus Canal, an EPA-designated Superfund site, the area has cost hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up. New buildings there include some affordable housing, but most apartments are market-rate.<\/p>\n

\nEven so, residents love the neighborhood. Mark Gimein is one of them. He moved into a new development there in June and pays $6,990 a month for a two-bedroom. His building has a gym, office spaces, and a roof deck, and his apartment has floor-to-ceiling windows with lots of natural light.<\/p>\n

\nTo be sure, he writes, \u201cthe professional housing lobby will dismiss our apartment as \u2018luxury\u2019\u2014a basic marketing term that solicits sneers in the upside-down world where any improvement in housing stock is seen as delaying the revolution.\u201d But older apartments there are barely much cheaper. Blue cities like New York should be pushing for thousands of new apartment units in such areas, he argues.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIn the backwards logic that permeates discussions of development, I am supposed to feel guilty that I have chosen to live in a place built by a greedy developer, instead of a wreck filled with old Brooklyn character,\u201d Gimein writes. \u201cIn fact, I feel hopeful that, out of New York\u2019s decades-long housing nightmare, a new, more livable city can still rise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nRead more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201c\u2018L\u2019etat, c\u2019est moi,\u201d is the attitude of leftist courts and local socialist-leaning governments regarding whether or not the actual law and legal process mean anything. Truly frightening.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\nA quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.<\/p>\n

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