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The Flint Water Crisis is a man-made tragedy that has dominated local, national and international news coverage. People in Flint, all across Michigan, the United States and other countries are paying attention. Sadly, it seems that the only place where the crisis isn’t a big deal is the Michigan State Senate. As a matter of…
There was a hearing in the House Appropriations Committee this morning on House Bill 4145, sponsored by Rep. Thomas Hooker (R), which would restrict a woman’s access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare. It would prohibit State of Michigan family planning funding from going to providers that offer abortion services. The primary goal of the bill is…
In his State of the State speech, Governor Snyder said that the buck stops with him. Since the speech he has attempted to pass the buck like a hot potato and has spent time and energy on trying to prop up his own political career – time better spent fixing the mess he allowed to…
Decades of our representatives in Lansing cutting millions of dollars from local budgets and making it impossible to invest in infrastructure – it’s what’s led to the deplorable condition of Michigan’s roads, failing public education across the state, and now, the Flint water crisis. Had our representatives invested in our state’s water infrastructure over…
Another long-term scandal with no answers from the Snyder Administration Of late, even when he’s supposed to be taking questions from the press, Rick Snyder has been assiduously avoiding certain questions, most notably, anything having to do with his culpability in the poisoning of Flint families with lead in the water. But, expectations are also…
Let’s face it, either Rick Snyder is lying about when he knew about the severity of the Flint Water Crisis or Dennis Muchmore will go down as the worst Chief of Staff in the history of Michigan. It’s clear that the seriousness of the crisis reached the Governor’s inner circle by July of last year…
I remember the first time I saw you speak at Michigan State University in 2008. Thousands of students waited for hours in the rain. I was a new freshman at the time – 18 years old and getting ready to vote in my first presidential election ever. It was electric. I remember standing in line…
Gov. Rick Snyder has once again appointed a politically-connected ally to a major position at a public institution. The governor recently decided to appoint Bobby Schostak, the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party and a chain restaurant/real estate investor, to serve on the Oakland University Board of Trustees. Surely there was nobody in Michigan…
Our representatives in the State House and Senate are coming back from their holiday break tomorrow and they have a lot of work to do in the three weeks they have before the legislative session ends for the year. That means that, starting tomorrow, our representatives could (and probably will) be voting on some major…
It’s the holiday season. That means too much food, shopping, family and the not-so-fun political arguments with your conservative uncle. How do you convince your uncle that President Obama isn’t a horrible President – hell bent on destroying the fabric of America? How do you explain abortion to him from your point of view? What…