Progress Michigan blog posts.
Image via Wikipedia In 2002, Michiganders voted to fund sewage system upgrades. Simply put, they created a bond, the Great Lakes Water Quality Bond , that would provide funds to upgrade and fix failing sewage systems across the state. When sewage systems are overloaded, they fail, sending millions of gallons of raw or partially treated…
Image via Wikipedia Congressional candidate “Top Kill” Tim Walberg has taken over $57,000 from Big Oil and other dirty energy companies while voting time and again to hand out tax breaks to BP and Big Oil. Our lawmakers shouldn’t be subsidizing BP and Big Oil but they should be protecting our Great Lakes. Yet Walberg…
Image by Urban~Spaceman via Flickr The inmates are taking over the asylum. In a big and incredibly under-reported story that some of us who count tea bags have been predicting for weeks now, the far right tea party caucus of the Michigan Republican Party is taking over. Thousands of cranky “tea party” types showed up…
Posted by Joan Bolander Image via Wikipedia Progress of a sort has been made on one of the largest oil spills in Midwest history. From the Kalamazoo Gazette: In a sign of the progress made in containing the more than 1 million gallons of crude oil that spilled on July 26 into Talmadge Creek in…
Written by David Holtz Image by stevendepolo via Flickr Political pundits have been burning up the air waves and nets this week analyzing Tuesday’s primary election results with Rick Snyder’s takedown if not takeover on the Republican side getting lots of attention. Much less is being said about progressives and labor torching Andy Dillon’s…
The ‘legendary’ speaker at right-wing darling Rocky Raczkowski’s fundraiser last week — he’s building a warchest in his bid to take out incumbent Dem Gary Peters — was Phyllis Schlafly. You may remember her as the lady who said, “By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call…
Sea change ahead, folks, as Gallup reports that Dems have a six-point lead in generic ballots for the 2010 Congressional elections. Gallup notes: In the same week that the U.S. Senate passed a major financial reform bill touted as reining in Wall Street, Democrats pulled ahead of Republicans, 49% to 43% … If you read further, you’ll…
CNN asked Hoekstra if he found it hypocritical to show up for the groundbreaking of a plant he voted against by opposing funding through the federal Recovery Act. We had a few questions for Hoekstra, too. We wanted to ask about whether Hoekstra’s votes for huge tax breaks for Big Oil was the same thing–minus…
Unemployment benefits extension for middle class Americans: $30 billion Extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy: $678 billion Watching Arizona Senator John Kyl attempt to explain why it’s ok to add to the deficit for the benefit of the rich, but not the poor: Pricele$$ To wit: Top Senate Republican Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) insisted on…
Catholics are praying, the feds are mobilized, and BP is hiring local Louisiana fishers to help fight the massive and catastrophic BP oil spill. Me, I’m frustrated, angry and agree with the suggestion that anyone who shouted “Drill, baby, drillâ€â€”especially Sarah Palin—be required to go down to Louisiana and start scooping up the oily mousse…