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Henry Payne

14 articles 1998–2014

Henry Payne is an editorial cartoonist and auto columnist for The Detroit News. He contributed political commentary and automotive industry coverage to The Weekly Standard from 1998 to 2014, frequently writing about Detroit's auto industry, energy policy, and Michigan politics.

Dingell Bells

December 31, 2007 · Shikha Dalmia, Magazine, Henry Payne

Detroit

Grand Old Preferences

September 4, 2006 · Magazine, Henry Payne

THIS YEAR, Michigan was supposed to be the latest victory in conservative activist Ward Connerly's state-by-state battle to enforce the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and end racial discrimination in government hiring. Instead, Michigan may well be his movement's graveyard, thanks to strong…

Anything But Diesel

June 18, 2001 · Magazine, Diane Katz, Henry Payne

IT’S CUTE, IT’S HIGH-TECH, it seats four, it gets a world-best 77 miles to the gallon—and Americans can’t have it. The Volkswagen Lupo 3L TDI is already saving fuel on European roads, but it won’t qualify for any of the $4 billion in subsidies for "alternative-fuel vehicles" in the Bush…

GREEN NONSENSE, BLACK LOSSES

August 3, 1998 · Magazine, Henry Payne

Thanks to the Clinton administration's notion of "environmental justice," black Americans in poor communities are being deprived of industry, jobs, and economic growth.