Chad Livengood

@ChadLivengood

Politics Editor & Columnist at The @DetroitNews | Michiganian | @crainsdetroit @delawareonline @SpringfieldNL @CMLife alum | [email protected]

Detroit, MI

Joined March 2009

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 1

🚨 AG @dananessel’s office & the Michigan Economic Development Corp. are duking it out in court over Nessel’s raid of the @MEDC HQ in the Fay Beydoun investigation. Major revelations in this story from @DNBethLeBlanc, including Whitmer inner circle link: detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

ChadLivengood's tweet card. Michigan Economic Development Corp. officials and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's chief of staff are being represented by a prominent criminal defense lawyer.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · 4 h

NEW: Mary Sheffield has commanding fundraising lead in Detroit's mayor race detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via ⁦@DetroitAguilar⁩ @detroitnews

ChadLivengood's tweet card. Sheffield has raised just over $807,000 since Jan. 1, according to reports filed Friday. She's followed by Saunteel Jenkins and Solomon Kinloch.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · 16 h

Former Interlochen Arts Academy students allege sexual abuse by faculty detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via ⁦@Max_DetroitNews⁩ @detroitnews

ChadLivengood's tweet card. Interlochen said the accounts date back to the 1960s and 1970s and an external investigation is underway.

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Beth LeBlanc@DNBethLeBlanc · Jul 21

Whitmer appoints senior adviser to energy regulatory board detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via ⁦@detroitnews⁩

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 22

MEDC CEO: Agency handled $20M Beydoun grant appropriately, no 'special pressure' felt detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @detroitnews ⁦@DNBethLeBlanc⁩

ChadLivengood's tweet card. MEDC CEO Quentin Messer defended his agency's handling of a $20 million grant that is under investigation by Attorney General Dana Nessel's office.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 19

Genius brewery name in Kingsford, Mich. #UPstateOfMind

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The Detroit News@detroitnews · Jul 18

Trump's auto loan tax break could save working class buyers thousands, experts say detroitnews.com/story/business…

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Andrew Kaczynski@KFILE · Jul 17

WSJ got a copy of a letter Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday. This is what it said. Trump denies he sent it.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 17

BREAKING: @GovWhitmer 'troubled' by Fay Beydoun grant controversy, won't say if her staff was involved in $20M legislative earmark detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @DNBethLeBlanc & @detroitnews

ChadLivengood's tweet card. "To say I'm very disappointed would be really not nearly strong enough language," Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said about the controversy.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 17

Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @AP

ChadLivengood's tweet card. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.

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Axios@axios · Jul 17

Trump's push to switch the sweetener in Coke to cane sugar could cost thousands of U.S. jobs. trib.al/cvVap49

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Robert Snell@robertsnellnews · Jul 17

Scoop FBI agents are investigating a Detroit judge and her dad in a corruption case focused on an alleged conspiracy involving bribery & fraud as well as vulnerable people in the probate court system, according to a sealed search warrant detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 17

Detroit Regional Chamber PAC makes early endorsement of #Detroit @MayorMikeDuggan for governor detroitnews.com/story/news/pol… via @CraigDMauger & @detroitnews

ChadLivengood's tweet card. The announcement from the Detroit Regional Chamber came months before the southeast Michigan business organization usually endorses candidates.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 17

Apple to open downtown Detroit store this year while closing another location detroitnews.com/story/business… via @CWilliams_DN & @detroitnews

ChadLivengood's tweet card. The tech giant confirmed it will not renew its lease for its store at at a mall in the region.

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Chad Livengood@ChadLivengood · Jul 17

First the shoes went back on. Now, at U.S. airport security, more liquid in carry-ons may be at hand detroitnews.com/story/business… via @ruskygal

ChadLivengood's tweet card. The liquid limits were introduced after a 2006 plot involving liquid explosives was foiled.

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Craig Mauger@CraigDMauger · Jul 17

The Detroit Regional Chamber endorses independent Mike Duggan for governor:

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Jennifer Chambers@jchambers_DN · Jul 17

See inside the new Hudson's Detroit building detroitnews.com/story/business… via @detroitnews

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Crain's Detroit Business@crainsdetroit · Jul 17

Editorial: It’s time to hear from Gov. Whitmer on Beydoun grant ebx.sh/ywn9v5

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The Detroit News@detroitnews · Jul 17

GM steps outside EV batteries, makes deal to help power data centers detroitnews.com/story/business…

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