When your grandparents were children, they probably saw an episode of NBC’s “Howdy Doody,” which ran from 1947 to 1960 and starred “Buffalo” Bob Smith and his puppet, Howdy Doody, a play on the Western greeting “howdy do.” Today, you can find the 70-year-old freckled cowboy puppet at Hog Creek Antiques in Allen, Michigan. It...
Follow Vivian on Twitter “I have just one question for you folks: are you people ready for Hillary?” Democratic Rep. Gary Peters yelled to an ecstatic crowd at a rally with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday, Oct. 17, at Oakland University. Attracting the highest-profile Democrats in the land, the race between Peters...
Follow Vivian on Twitter Political celebrities from both parties swarm to the Great Lakes State to rally support for Senate candidates Terri Lynn Land (R-Mich.) and Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) in the final weeks of the race to clinch a Senate majority this November. Wednesday, the White House announced that President Barack Obama will visit...
Livonia, MI -— Mitt Romney brought Michigan’s Senate race into the national eye at a rally for Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land (R-Mich.) here last Thursday. “This is a person who will make a difference in Washington,” Romney said, “because in Washington, her voice will be one of those that takes us in a very...
Terri Lynn Land, Michigan’s “invisible” senate candidate, is finally stepping into the spotlight. Since her Mackinac Island gaffe, Land has avoided open press conferences and public appearances, but she announced this week that she will debate opponent Rep. Gary Peters. Land hired former Secretary of State Richard McLellan as her campaign’s debate negotiator, but as...