ProgressMichigan, the heavily financed extreme left idea and organizing shop of Progress for Michigan, regularly issues an e-mail update to its followers. Below, I've pasted its latest attack on Bart Stupak, the Democratic Congressman from the UP who proposed the abortion funding restriction amendment to the federal health care package. [...]
I wonder if part of the severence package* is an independent distributors' kit and a piece of paper with the name and phone number of the diamond they're supposed to report to.
ADA -- Amway Corp. announced today it expects to eliminate 93 jobs, mostly at its Ada headquarters, over [...]
Nolan Finley gives some space to the state's most pressed-upon public official, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop. Specifically, he says that Jennifer Granholm has picked on the poor dear.
Give Bishop the last word, since he's been so meanly treated by the governor in recent weeks: "What she's doing is" [...]
Pontiac Silverdome
The stadium that was once the National Football League’s largest venue (seating capacity: 80,300) is up for auction today. Bidding on the property will close at 4 p.m.
And apparently, real estate experts say the Silverdome is a great deal — if you just [...]
As if you needed a reason not to shop there:
NILES — The two Bic multipurpose lighters and a package of smaller lighters Joe Paolucci bought at the Niles Wal-Mart on Aug. 16 cost $15.84.
So how did the lighters end up the centerpiece of a situation that resulted [...]
In a recent conversation with media, future city council members elected just last week revealed a personal yet controversial choice: that they carried concealed weapons for self-protection.
As Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley writes, “The majority of city council members will be packing” come January.
The majority [...]
Last summer I wrote about going to the 48 Hour Film Challenge awards, held in a loft overlooking the Packard-plant ruin, and how the arsonists trashing the place thoughtfully put on a fire for us. I think I also mentioned the truck sticking out the window:
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy will hold a meeting at Affirmations Community Center in Ferndale on Nov. 18. The meeting is designed to seek and receive input from communities impacted by the HIV epidemic about the development and implementation of a national HIV/AIDS strategy.
The strategy is [...]
This week's special guest on the Two Joes podcast is Peter Bratt, who's blogged here and also blogs pretty heavily at West Michigan Rising. Together, there is some breakdown of Tuesday's Senate special election seat. They discuss the impact of the labor endorsements, and whether the base constituencies were [...]
Jane Hamsher at FireDogLake posts a lists of corporate PAC donors to Bart Stupak and wonders aloud what they might think of his abortion-related activism as regards healthcare reform.
If Planned Parenthood and NARAL are just going to lie down and let access to reproductive health legislation to be [...]
Via the inestimable Todd Heywood:
Byrnes, a Democrat from Washtenaw' [...]
The Detroit News reports on a new GAO analysis that indicates that the Obama administration put conditions on the loans given to GM and Chrysler that required the companies to maintain most of their current production capacity in the United States rather than outsourcing it to other countries.
Separately, [...]
Has anyone noticed that Obama says one thing while doing the exact opposite himself? Obama is on pace to increase national debt by more than all presidents before him from Washington to W. Thus, who is Obama to lecture anyone on overspending money that they don't' [...] Aren't these the same people who bitch non-stop about how business expansion is held up by environmental regulations?
Tom George, a Republican from Kalamazoo, is trying to pass a package of “regulations” he says would “define and clarify” the rules for stem cell research. In fact, they would make [...]
The Macomb Daily with the Macomb County Chamber of Commerce has released the results of an e-mail survey about the impact of health care reform on their businesses.
According to the Daily, the survey found 23 companies would dump their insurance plans, and opt for the government penalty. The reason? [...]
Congress on Thursday approved the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a $475 million package that includes funding for the prevention of invasive species, cleaning up toxic sites and protecting and expanding wetlands throughout the Great Lakes states.
About $131 million of that money will go to wastewater and drinking water projects [...]
Gongwer, in an article entitled "FY '10 Plus 28: Senate Appears to Kill Dillon's Revenue Strategy," details the failure of Dillon's fling with Bishop:
A' [...]
State Rep. Mike Simpson announced Wednesday he is suffering from a rare blood disorder.
The disorder, called light-chain deposition, was diagnosed in the Democratic lawmaker from Jackson after he suffered “a variety of symptoms.” The disease can impact the heart, liver and kidneys.
In a statement released [...]
FoxNews.com, the official website of the Fox News anti-Obama propaganda network, is promoting what it calls the “Obama Change Index.” The index purports to chart “the impact of policies promised by President Obama,” and conveniently graphs Obama’s progress on a scale of [...]
A neighborhood battle over a billboard for an adult entertainment facility in Detroit has spilled into the state Senate.
A report in the Macomb Daily says Sen. Hunter Tupac, a Detroit Democrat, has introduce legislation which will limit what can appear on billboard advertisements for adult entertainment locations such as [...]
Mackinac Center Hosting Forum on Canadian Health Care, Impact of “Universal Care”
Stars of Mackinac Center Videos warn against nationalized health care
MIDLAND — The Mackinac Center for Public Policy will host a health care forum at noon Monday (Oct. 26) at the Troy Community Center. Speakers for the luncheon will be [...]
Oh boy, the figures are rolling in on The One's stimulus package and that unbelievable recovery we're in! And the Enchanted Mitten is number 7 in the latest rankings!
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