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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: David Holtz Wednesday, March 3, 2010 (517) 999-3646 Vote Possible Today On 3% Pay Raise Opposed By Business Leaders for Michigan Millionaire CEOs Whose Leader is Slated for 148% Pay Hike LANSING, MI –Citizens group Progress Michigan today called on Consumers Energy CEO David Joos to abandon his campaign to raise…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: LEIGH FIFELSKI Wednesday, March 3, 2010 (517) 999-3646 Vote Possible Today On 3% Pay Raise Opposed By Business Leaders for Michigan Millionaire CEOs Whose Leader is Slated for 148% Pay Hike LANSING – Citizens group Progress Michigan today blasted a group of top corporate CEOs for supporting plans to balance Michigan’s…
MEDIA RELEASE Contact: David Holtz Thursday, February 25, 2010 (517) 999-3646 Letters Submitted by Michigan Residents Urge Bishop, Dillon to Show Michigan Some Love LANSING – Hundreds of love letters from Michigan residents were hand-delivered to the offices of Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop and Speaker of the House Andy Dillon today. Michiganders from across…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Thursday, February 25, 2010 (517) 999-3646 Plan will boost renewable energy standard to 30 percent by 2025 LANSING – ReEnergize Michigan! today applauded Michigan legislators for introducing a plan that would ramp up Michigan’s renewable energy standard, or RES, to 30 percent by 2025, up from the current 10…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: DAVID HOLTZ Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 517-999-3646 Senate Leader’s Proposals Aimed At Michigan’s Middle-Class Workers; Bishop Should Lead By Example At A Time When Citizens Are Suffering LANSING – Citizens watchdog group Progress Michigan today called on Sen. Mike Bishop to include himself and all current legislators in his so-called “reform”…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: LEIGH FIFELSKI Thursday, Jan. 14, 2009 (517) 999-3646 Granholm Administration’s decision to OK Bay City plant will kill jobs; won’t protect families LANSING – Clean energy and environmental groups today criticized Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality for giving the green light to a controversial coal plant project in Bay City, and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: DAVID HOLTZ December 10, 2009 517-999-3646 Give Workers Gift of Health LANSING – Citizen’s watchdog group Progress Michigan today thanked the State Senate for reversing its Grinch-like approach to a proposed workplace smoking ban by passing HB 4377. The bill bans smoking in Michigan’s bars and restaurants, but does allow exemptions…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Leigh Fifelski Thursday, November 12, 2009 517-999-3646 Request Justice Dept. Investigate Claims Cox Impeded Police Probe Into Kilpatrick, Manoogian Party LANSING, MI – Citizen’s watchdog group Progress Michigan, in a letter to the U.S. Attorney for eastern Michigan, called upon the federal Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Holtz Friday, October 30, 2009 313-300-4454 LANSING, MI—Citizens watchdog group Progress Michigan blasted Senate Republicans today in the aftermath of budget signings by the Governor that signaled a failure of state leaders to agree on compromise solutions to Michigan’s revenue crisis. “What comes next will be a slow motion catastrophe…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Don’t Let Them Get Away With It Again! KALAMAZOO, MI—Leaders of the group opposed to the expansion of the current City of Kalamazoo non-discrimination ordinance have a history of using misinformation to confuse voters When she pushed for the 2006 ban on affirmative action then-Kalamazoo City Commissioner Mary Balkema clamed Proposal 2…