Progress Michigan blog posts.
We’re always hearing about how much clean energy will “cost.” Now, at least, we know how much it costs Big Coal to fight against progress, good-paying jobs and public health. ACCCE’s most recent IRS filing, obtained by Greenwire (sub. req’d), lists the contributions to the coalition by the nation’s biggest coal companies. Arch Coal Inc.,…
Question: Why doesn’t this memo rehashing the meeting between Attorney General Mike Cox and former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick record Cox asking the big question, “Was there a party?†Strange, because in the related Free Press Story Free Press story,Cox said he asked the mayor about the rumored party at the end of the interview. “I…
Because they follow the policy prescriptions of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Case in point, the in depth knowledge and arguing prowess of Sarah Palin devotees: In all honesty, they would do about as well as Sarah did in an interview with Katie Couric.
“…Blowing down the backroads headin’ south,†Bob Dylan prophesied, and turned out to be spot on, with news coming out of the Southwest about an exciting new wind farm, exactly the sort of thing America and Michigan needs to turn our economic fortunes around. The Wall Street Journal reported on a deal to supply one…
From Virginia to Jackson, Michigan Democratic candidates were slapped silly by Republicans because Democratic voters stayed home. If there is one lesson learned from Tuesday’s election I hope it’s that Democrats absorb the reality that they cannot win without base support from progressives, African-Americans, young people and union members. And that base voters will abandon…
People are dying, and yet the Senate Republicans continue to obstinately insist on a budget balanced largely on the backs of Michigan’s poorest, most vulnerable citizens. It’s not hyperbole, it’s the truth. Just this morning, MIRS reported that Medicaid cuts claimed their first life. A woman described as a severely mentally-impaired resident of Northern Michigan…
The Michigan Senate yesterday went soft on crime and voted to repeal the 1800s era law that made dueling a crime in our state. So what, you say, there are assault crimes and other laws on the books that would seem to make dueling an arcane holdover from another era. But wait… We have watched…
Remember the scene at the end of Scooby Doo episodes, where some disgruntled curmudgeon would remove his mask and sneer at the Scooby gang, “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids?” No doubt he was angry that some truth-hounds had sniffed around and came between him…
Dear John, We’ve never met, so I can almost (almost!) forgive you for your statement to the Middletown Journal. You said you’re still looking for the first American who is in favor of the public option. Well, John, here I am. Rock you like a hurricane. Ok, so there were other criteria, too. You said…
The trio of Democratic leaders–the governor, Speaker Dillon and Senate Dem Leader Prusi–are now behind a proposal to raise just under $400 million in new revenues for 2010 and it is expected to go public tomorrow with a series of votes in the state House. Revenue sharing to local governments, Promise grants, Medicaid, libraries and…