10/29/20: One Detroit – Election 2020 / Detroit Voting Trends / Talking Politics at Work / Brigadier General Darren Werner

Nov 5, 2020

Election 2020: Nolan Finley & Stephen Henderson
The 2020 Election: Historic. Unprecedented. Challenging. Anxiety-producing. And Michigan has been right in the middle of it. Managing Editor, Christy McDonald, along with One Detroit contributors, Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley, talk about historic turnout, counties that flipped, and what this election says about us here in Michigan.
Detroit Voting Trends
Election Day is behind us, with votes still being tallied nationwide. Bryce Huffman, BridgeDetroit Reporter and Producer, tells us what voter turnout looked like on the ground in Detroit, how prepared the city was, and why poll challengers were chanting outside the TCF Center where votes were being counted.
Talking Politics at Work
Your water cooler, real or virtual, might be rife with political talk. Legally speaking, there are rules. One Detroit’s Bill Kubota talks with attorney Terry Bonnette at Nemeth Law in Detroit about how far employees and employers can go in expressing politics in the workplace.
One Detroit Interview: Brigadier General Darren Werner
Veterans Day is coming up next week. Christy talks with Brig. General Darren Werner about what it was like coming back to Michigan to command TACOM in Warren, the kind of leadership qualities people are looking for today, and what to remember going into Veterans Day.

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by Bryce Huffman, Orlando Bailey and Quinn Banks (Orlando Bailey, Author at BridgeDetroit)
The Black barbershop is a sanctuary for grooming and public rest and a pulpit to express joy, debate values and politics in a community that is affirming and safe.
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National Headlines

Arizona indicts 18 Republicans, including Giuliani, Meadows, over 2020 fake elector scheme
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their efforts to use so-called fake electors to try to overturn Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Supreme Court weighs whether federal law allowing emergency abortions overrides state bans
It was a charged atmosphere at the Supreme Court as justices heard arguments in a major abortion case. The court looked at whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide abortion care in emergencies would apply to states with strict bans. More than two dozen states ban or severely restrict abortion and six states have no health exceptions. Geoff Bennett discussed the case with Sarah Varney.
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