Progress Michigan blog posts.
The right-wing, Moonie-owned Washington Times ran a story over the weekend accusing Congressman Dale Kildee of sexual assault based on interviews with the accused’s family, who are Kildee’s cousins. Kildee just released this statement in which the Flint Democrat strongly denies the allegations and reveals he brought the FBI into the matter after an attempt…
Guest post from John Karebian, Executive Director of Michigan Nurses Association. Cross-posted from Fight for Main Street. It’s impossible to know what the supercommittee is thinking as they approach the Nov. 23 deadline to recommend cuts of $1.5 trillion or more. They generally meet behind closed doors, and Michigan’s two supercommittee members have refused to hold…
OK, supercommittee members Fred Upton and Dave Camp didn’t finally do the right thing and agree to hold a public meeting to listen to their constituents back home. That’s crazy talk. In reality, they’re finishing up this week of recess and getting ready to run back to D.C. and hide behind their Wall Street campaign donors. Nope,…
It’s only coincidence that on Veterans Day I am forced to recall my first wound as a Marine. It was sometime in late spring or early summer of 1969. A Navy oral surgeon removed two of my wisdom teeth, and the Marine Corps felt little sympathy for my pain. No drugs and no Purple Heart,…
When voters in Genesee County’s 51st state House District fired Paul Scott Tuesday for cutting education funding and other political crimes they defeated a huge right-wing money machine intent on grinding down public schools. Into the maw of the education shredder was fed more than $100,000 in support of Scott —maybe lots more when the…
It’s sad when you have to go all the way to Washington to get (non) answers from your Congressmen. That wasn’t the sole reason that members of the Michigan Nurses Association were in D.C. last week. Their primary purpose was to take part in the Global Day of Action to Tax Wall Street. It’s…
Today, Americans across the country are heading to the polls despite new efforts by Republican politicians and corporate front groups in 15 states to make it harder for millions of American citizens to vote. In Michigan, this process was recently started by Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, who kicked off her campaign lobbying for the…
If you’re reading this, you won’t be surprised to hear that this week the Michigan House launched yet another attack on the rights of the 99 percent. House Bill 5002, passed on Wednesday, guarantees that businesses don’t have to pay as much in worker’s compensation when workers are hurt on the job. This law is…
This guest post was written by Amy Hunter, President of Equality Michigan Pride PAC. An “anti-bullying” bill with exceptions, really? In a stunning betrayal of the public trust, ultra-conservatives in Michigan pushed an “anti-bullying” initiative through the state Senate Wednesday after attaching an amendment that radically changed the legislation’s impact. The surprise change guts the…
Peter Sinclair takes us through the bad, badder, and best in today’s Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Richard Muller seemed like the last best hope of the anti-science movement.This month he published his global temperature results, and the climate denialists are up in arms. What went wrong?