Progress Michigan blog posts.
Image by Getty Images via @daylife If you live under a rock, or just don’t watch “reality” television like Dancing With the Stars — a show that gathers already rich, privileged or just plain annoyingly famous people and pits them against each other in a dance competition — you may not know that Bristol, the…
Image via Wikipedia UPDATED: 11:34 a.m. Man, I would just love it if the solution to every problem I tackle in my work were so simple. At the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, all the research reaches the same conclusion: public employees make too much money. …State government will be forced to cut spending soon…
Image via Wikipedia This is something like Dick Cheney winning the Nobel Prize for Peace. A recent study by the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force found that air pollution from CMS Energy’s 57 year old J.R. Whiting coal plant in Monroe causes 40 deaths a year as well as 61 heart attacks, over 600 asthma…