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Jack Lessenberry

Detroit
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Listen to my Politics and Prejudices podcast on your favorite podcast app or YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC Read my blog at www.lessenberryink.com
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Lessenberry: Public servant never got around to autobiography

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By Jack Lessenberry
| The Toledo Blade
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Former Michigan Congressman John Joseph “Joe” Schwarz, who died last week at 88, was one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever met. He had enough successful high-powered careers for several men, and never really retired. He was an often gruff bear of a man who had an awesome set of both intellectual and practical skills. He was first and foremost a medical doctor.
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Lessenberry: Duggan dropping out of race shocks Michigan

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By Jack Lessenberry
| The Toledo Blade
DETROIT — Michigan politics frequently offer surprises, but there are only two times in the last half century when I have been truly shocked. One was in 1990, when John Engler beat Gov. James Blanchard despite polls showing that just couldn’t happen. The second time was a week ago, when Mike Duggan, the politically savvy former Detroit mayor, suddenly ended his independent campaign for governor this year.
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Lessenberry: Anti-Semitism on the rise in Michigan

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By Jack Lessenberry
| The Toledo Blade
Several years ago, I was sitting at a table one morning at Rosie’s, a classic diner in the old industrial town of Escanaba in the Upper Peninsula. The place was mostly deserted except for some guys on bar stools at the counter. “Hey, do you know why Jews don’t wear penny loafers?” one said. “Because they’d trip, because they’d always be looking at their feet.” I was astounded, not by the ethnic slur, or its sheer dated stupidity, but by the feeling that I had stumbled into 1957.
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