l. brooks patterson

It's a classic editorial cartooning trope: drawing a recently deceased famous person at heaven's gate. It's been overdone and often mishandled. For…

Former Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson died on Saturday, but the race to replace him is already becoming complicated and heated--and sparked…

Today on Stateside, how should Congress respond in the aftermath of two mass shootings this weekend that left more than 30 people dead in El Paso, Texas…

Longtime Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson died on Saturday at age 80. His political career spanned five decades.Patterson leaves a formidable…

Oakland County commissioners may be getting into a big fight over paying a small number of county employees a higher minimum wage. Commissioner Angela…

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson has stage four pancreatic cancer, but plans to stay in office through the end of his term while seeking…

Macomb and Oakland counties’ leaders want the public to support a millage renewal for regional bus service that will be on the ballot this summer.Mark…

Wayne and Washtenaw County leaders are making a last-ditch effort to get a millage for improved mass transit across southeast Michigan on the November…

With a few words during his annual State of the County address Wednesday night, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson appeared to doom an effort to…

This year’s gathering of Metro Detroit’s “Big Four” political leaders highlighted more points of division than unity.Those leaders are Wayne County…