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*Write-up taken from Michigan Energy Options and Michigan Environmental Council. PEAK OIL NOVELIST TO SPEAK IN EAST LANSING ON APRIL 19, 2011 Kurt Cobb, novelist and founding member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and GasTuesday, April 19, 2011 from 5:30 pm – 7 p.m. at Michigan Energy Options, East Lansing. On Tuesday,…
There’s not a lot of room to contribute original commentary on Martin Luther King, Jr., what he meant for oppressed people fighting for civil rights and equality, etc. But thinking back to a video my youngest brother watched in second grade, shown by the only African-American teacher in the entire school district, I was struck…
The state Rep. defends his position on cuts to state lawmakers & officials benefits / perks packages. From the comments of the post on the ever-timely Michigan Liberal: Let me also make another simple point. We get worked up over legislative pay, but make no mention that a new head football coach at a State…
(note: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Koch Bros-funded right-wing advocacy group, recently used Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act as an intimidation tool, seeking emails sent by university professors whose academic focus is on labor issues. Flint’s Marcie Hemgesberg wrote the following post on the topic) Did I ever tell you my family once…
Rick Santorum says Social Security is going bankrupt (which is a lie) because we don’t have enough workers contributing to the fund. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion. Oh, I see. I thought…
Ezra Klein, who just seems to have the answers to everything, has the magic bullet again. This time, it’s how to cut the federal deficit in half. Just let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2012… He’s got a very simple, explanatory graph up as well, and makes this brilliant point: Even better, because expiration…
Bonnie B. at the Lansing Online News has a must-read piece today about what’s behind the full-bore assault on higher ed, and what we should do about it. Just as NAFTA initiated a race to the bottom for Midwest factory workers, the new austerity promoted by the GOP will gut public education, while deflating the…
Recommended reading from The Nerd‘s Facebook page, skewering Michigan’s universities for hiring more administrators and giving pay raises. Ironic money quote: “There are too many administrators making too much money,” he said. Please note the “he” is not Snyder, but an EMU faculty rep who seems to stand in for the Snyder administration’s position. Interesting,…
From the mixed up files of Mr. Kwame Kilpatrick’s long fall from grace (and non-incarcerated society) comes his admission that, if he had to do it all over again, he’d lie about his affair with then-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty. “I thought it was more important to protect my wife, and so I…
John Yob, progenitor of the allegedly grassroots effort Value for Michigan, says he won’t reveal the (likely high-rolling) donors to the effort, which aims to drum up support for Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget. “We will file our campaign finance reports the same time other political committees do, as legally required by the SoS office. We…