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Happy Friday, Michigan! Welcome to another edition of This Week in Progress. Let’s get started! This week in PM blogging: Reinventing “Reinventing Michigan” When it comes to mealy-mouthed answers to questions where a lot is said but nothing is ever really said, Gov. Rick Snyder takes home the blue ribbon. He can talk and deflect…
I read an opinion article this morning in the Detroit News by Nolan Finley. In it, he slams gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer for choosing Lisa Brown as his running mate. Or at least that’s what he does on the surface. I read through this article several times and I concluded that Nolan Finley is really…
Last week, conservative lawmakers who regularly promise voters that they’re “creating a smaller, smarter state government” did the exact opposite and expanded government reach. The administration passed legislation allowing oil corporations to force private property owners to give them legal rights to their land in order to place carbon dioxide pipelines on their property, or…
Today is Equal Pay Day, symbolizing the day that a woman working full time will have made as much as a man made the year before. That’s right, it takes women 100 additional days of work to make up for the 23% pay gap that exists for equal work. Many view equal pay for equal…
Today, Governor Rick Snyder was challenged to explain why he protected and doubled a contract that benefitted his cousin, while at the same time he was cutting education funds and taxing pensions – a fair question. The Governor’s response has me scratching my head: “His company has been doing office furniture with state of Michigan…
Hello everyone and welcome to the first edition of “This Week in Progress” — or TWIP for you cooler kids out there. Every Friday, I’ll be doing a wrap up of all the progressive news, blogs and information from the past week that you should probably know about. TWIP will feature legislative updates, a recap…
Who does Governor Rick Snyder think he is, Chris Christie? Except when it comes to cronyism and politically motivated favors, Snyder may have the New Jersey governor beat. Not sure if you’ve heard the latest example, but news recently broke that when legislative leadership and Gov. Snyder approved road repair projects (about time, right?) using…
You might recall last year that when Governor Rick Snyder was asked about raising Michigan’s minimum wage — he said that it wasn’t a “burning issue.” Our elected leaders in Michigan have said they will not act on behalf of hardworking Michiganders who deserve a raise. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of minimum wage workers across…
He’s Got a Cousin in the Furniture Business “They will involve difficult but necessary changes to bring Michigan’s budget into structural balance. There will be shared sacrifice, but through that shared sacrifice, Michigan will emerge as a stronger and more vibrant state.” –Governor Rick Snyder’s Executive Budget: Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013. When he first…
Have you ever been stuck between a rock and a hard place? Most of us have, and the Michigan Freedom Fund’s Greg McNeilly is no exception. Except his predicament could more accurately be described as being stuck between a rock and a Republican. On one hand, Greg McNeilly married his longtime partner – his rock…