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• Mark Oglesby's senior government class raised the bar for civic education

  
  Howell High School students from teacher Mark Oglesby's senior government class again won the "We the People" 8th Congressional District Competition over Mason High School to again advance to the state competition in January held in Lansing.
  
  We the People is a nationwide [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  

• Help with dealing with the rare obnoxious rightwing relative on Thanksgiving

  
  Families all across the nation will sit down this Thanksgiving to a feast of turkey and pumpkin pie and to watch the Lions beat Green Bay, and we visit with family members we only see on holidays.
  
  Although they are becoming scarcer, you may find [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:17pm EST
  

• Selection of Hamburg clerk does not pass the smell test

  Long-time Speaker of the U.S. House Tip O'Neill coined the phrase “All politics is local,” and it has been my experience as a former community journalist that the more local the office, the more petty and quarrelsome it can be. Hamburg Township is a perfect example.
  
  The most populace' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

• Vote for the top liberal talk show host of 2009

  
  Like you, I love listening to liberal talk radio, when I can find it, but who are the best liberal talkers? The blog LTR: The Alternative Media Resource, is again running its annual contest to pick the top 10 liberal talk radio hosts.
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:28pm EST
  

• Another ethically challenged GOP Gubernatorial candidate

  
  The Citizen’s watchdog group Progress Michigan sent a letter last week to the U.S. Attorney for eastern Michigan calling for the U.S. Justice Department to conduct an independent investigation of allegations that Attorney General Mike Cox and the Detroit police may have obstructed an investigation [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:33pm EST
  

• Republicans question the integrity of the U.S. justice system

  
  I am accustomed to Republicans rooting against the country just so they can regain control of something they say they hate, but I’m a little surprised at their reaction over holding the trial for the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks in New York [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:57pm EST
  

• Real protector of traditional marriage wants to bar divorce

  
  California’s Proposition 8 - misnamed the California Marriage Protection Act - took rights away from committed gay couples that the rest of us enjoy by putting discrimination into the state Constitution with this line, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:56pm EST
  

• Historic health care reform bill moves forward

  
  Good news Saturday night when the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 to allow debate on the historic health care legislation.
  
  The majority of Americans want health care reform -since President Roosevelt, Teddy that is, yet every single Republican voted to block debate. They didn’t necessarily [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:40pm EST
  

• Economic policy not focused on creating jobs

  
  Detroit Free Press columnist Brian Dickerson hit the nail on the head with his column on Thursday when he said politicians’ Jobs, Jobs, Jobs mantra is just a campaign slogan for many.
  
  It’s good news that the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar In Quantitative [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:56am EST
  

• Republicans open another fly by night office in Livingston County

  
  The Livingston County Republicans opened another temporary campaign office, but like the other previous offices under various names, this one will be soon be gone, too.
  
  The name they are using this time is, of course, an oxymoron: “The Livingston Fix Michigan office.” The best [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:18pm EST
  

• Report confirms the state budget is balanced on the backs of the poor and the disappearing middle class

  A recently released study by the non-partisan and non-profit Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) confirmed what most people already know: that the poor and middle class pay the freight for government services.
  
  The ITEP released a study yesterday called, “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  

• Celebrate Great American Smokeout by urging lawmakers to take up the workplace smoking ban

  
  Today is the American Cancer Society's 34th Annual Great American Smokeout, and all over the country people are giving themselves a break from the deadly habit of smoking, at least for a day.
  
  You can further celebrate the Great American Smokeout by calling Michigan [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:02am EST
  

• Extremist gun group wants America to go back the the lawless Wild West

  
  It takes a certain kind of person to claim the answer to the epidemic of gun violence is more guns, but that’s the solution some 2nd Amendment zealots continue to push.
  
  Every year in this country guns kill over 30,000 people, and 70,000 more [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:57pm EST
  

• Criticism of President Obama reaches a new height of pettiness

  
  Just when you thought the criticism of President Obama can’t get any more petty and ridiculous, right-wingers go out and surprise you.
  
  The irrational hatred of the President knows no bounds, and something as simple as urging students to stay in school and [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:35pm EST
  

• Former lawmaker’s excessive absences are a Republican joke

  
  One of the minor badges of honor in Lansing is for lawmakers is to get the quote of the day in subscription only MIRS.
  
  Last Thursday honor that went to Rep. Tory Rocca, R-Sterling Heights, and it was about somebody those of us who [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:34pm EST
  

• The newest GOP lie on health care reform: five years in prison

  
  Just when you think you have heard all the Republican lies about health care, they roll out another one to debunk.
  
  The newest lie is that there is a provision in the historic Affordable Health Care for America Act passed earlier this month that [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:06am EST
  

• Republican scandals back in the headlines

  
  Republican scandals have been absent from the headlines for the last couple of years, but a trio of Michigan Republicans have changed that.
  
  I guess they are too busy lying about health care to continue their record of corruption, but the more obvious [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:58am EST
  

• Twitter’ Pete commits another security breach

  There’s one thing for certain: if you want to keep a secret, don’t tell it to Pete Hoekstra.
  
  Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, has a history of loose lips. Last February “Twitter” Pete revealed a secret congressional trip to Iraq on Twitter, [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:26pm EST
  

• The Michigan Republican Teabagger Party trying to disrupt Schauer townhall meeting

  
  The wind has gone out of the sails of the Astroturf teabaggers riled up by rightwing Washington, D.C. lobbying groups paid for by the insurance industry, but Republicans are trying to get it going again.
  
  U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, will be in the [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:29pm EST
  

• Scared GOP launches early false smear against SOS candidate

  
  I am impressed with the qualifications of Wayne State University law Professor Jocelyn Benson, a Democratic candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, but I have been reluctant to support her 100 percent until I see what other Democrats enter the race. But, a screechy [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:16am EST
  

• Happy Veterans Day to my fellow Veterans

  
  Happy Veterans Day to my fellow Veterans, even to Eric B. over at Michigan Liberal. The Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) said it best in its Veterans Day message. Clearly, the Democratic Party has done more for the veterans who have served after they hung up [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:09am EST
  

• The fight for fair auto insurance rates is taken up by the people

  
  All too often, Michigan residents have to go around the obstructionist Michigan Senate to get good legislation passed, and that is the case with legislation dealing the high cost of insurance redlining.
  
  The Michigan Board of Canvassers approved ballot language on Monday for a petition [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:12am EST
  

• Looking for candidates for Hamburg Township Clerk

  Now that voters have recalled Hamburg Township Clerk Matt Skiba, a special election to fill the almost three years remaining of his term is set for Feb. 23.
  
  Because it’s a special election because of a recall, there is no primary election to fill the partisan office, and [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  

• Fox ‘news’ rolls out another false war

  
  Like the false “war on Christmas” rolled out every single year by Fox “news,” the latest made up war by fox is just as false.
  
  The rightwing media is all aflutter about the false “war on Fox ‘news’” by the Obama Administration. The problem is [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:53am EST
  

• ‘Michigan Stands for Health Care’ this Sunday in Lansing

  
  A vote on the historic health care overhaul initiative could come as early as this weekend in the U.S. House, and the right-wingers are rolling out all the old, debunked lies, from “death panels” to it will cover illegal immigrants.
  
  To rally the [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:47pm EST
  

• Election roundup looks bright

  
  Thank God for Rachel Maddow.
  
  I was not feeling too well about Tuesday’s election. But I tuned into her show on MSNBC on Wednesday, and she put it in proper perspective. Now, I’m looking forward to the election in 2010.
  
  Despite losing [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:51pm EST
  

• Support for ending harmful term limits is building

  Another brief state government shutdown has illustrated what a disaster term limits are, and a recent survey proves people are fed up with the 14-year experiment.
  
  The latest results from Michigan State University’s State of the State Survey - conducted by the Office for Survey Research in the [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:09pm EST
  

• Livingston County Democrats honor veterans

  
  The Livingston County Democratic Party is marking Veterans Day by honoring all military veterans and their families with a special luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Saturday Nov. 7 at the party headquarters, 10321 E. Grand River, Suite 600, Brighton.
  
  The soup and salad luncheon [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

• Local Republicans not happy with all cuts state budget

  
  Sometimes they just can’t help themselves.
  
  I know lots of Republicans who as individuals are great people, but the Republican in them can’t stop them from engaging in the favorite GOP tactics: scare tactics. Livingston County Republican Sheriff Bob Bezotte is trying to get townships [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  

• County GOP imports Sam the digital converter box promoter to speak

  
  The Livingston County Republican Party is scraping the bottom of the barrel for people to speak at its annual Reagan Dinner this week. It has tapped “Sam the digital converter box promoter” to speak.
  
  Sam - AKA “Joe the Plumber” AKA Samuel Wurzelbacher [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:15am EST
  

• Griffin endorsed by The Jackson Citizen Patriot

  
  The Jackson Citizen Patriot endorsed Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, for the vacant state Senate seat in the 19th District that includes Jackson and Calhoun Counties.
  
  The editorial board got it right on the lies put out by Republican opponent in the constant [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:50pm EST
  

• Video highlights Griffin’s bipartisan support

  
  Supporters of Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, have been working hard to make up for the massive amount of money spent by his opponent to buy the vacant seat in the 19th state Senate seat with hard work.
  
  Although Griffin does not have the money to [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
  

• Sen. Scott vows not to give up the fight for fairness

  
  For almost seven years, Sen. Martha G. Scott, D-Highland Park, has fought against the practice known as insurance “redlining.” Redlining means an insurance company refuses to insure an auto or home based solely on the geographic area where the person lives, provides an inferior product [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:57pm EDT
  

• Calling all cars: its crunch time in the 19th District

  
  It’s crunch time. The Nov. 3 Special Election for the vacant seat in the 19th State Senate District is less than a week away, and Michigan and Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, need our help.
  
  The campaign is gearing up for the all important “get-out-the-vote,” and [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:38pm EDT
  

• Monroe County Democrats mourn the loss of a dedicated and close friend

  
  My friends at the Monroe County Democratic Party are grieving over the loss of their close friend and dedicated activitist Otis Henderson.
  
  He suffered a very severe brain aneurysm on Wednesday evening. On Thursday, the doctors removed him from all equipment, except for the ventilator, [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:46am EDT
  

• Another GOP false talking point bites the dust

  
  Republicans have their favorite whipping boys and boogyman, and in Michigan, state employees are a bigger target than even ACORN.
  
  However, their claim that state employees are overpaid and state government continues grow has already been debunked. In August, respected Michigan State University professor [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
  

• Another day another report that says secondhand smoke kills

  
  Just in case there was any doubt cast on the U.S. Surgeon General’s and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) conclusion that there is no safe amount of second smoke and that it kills, the nonprofit, nongovernmental Institute of Medicine (IOM) confirmed that with a report [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:35am EDT
  

• Push poll ignores the fact that the Governor was sent a school aid budget bill that was not properly funded

  
  The rightwing noise machine went into high gear after Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed $54 million from House Bill 4447, the School aid funding bill.
  
  The money was cut for the 40, 20J or “hold harmless districts” that have higher funding levels than other school districts. [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:29pm EDT
  

• Griffin stands up for Veterans

  
  Concord resident Larry Root makes a great case for electing Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, to the Michigan Senate in a letter-to-the-editor that appears in the Oct. 22 edition of the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
  Root is also the Michigan Coordinator for the Missing in America [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:46pm EDT
  

• The TV airwaves are being filled with false attacks on Griffin

  
  The TV airwaves are being filled with false attacks on Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, as Nov. 3 Special Election for the vacant seat in the 19th State Senate District fast approaches.
  
  The latest one continues the Republican false campaign issue of trying to claim [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 10:48pm EDT
  

• Join the MSU College Democrats Sunday to make Michigan a better place

  
  Join the Michigan State University College Democrats in Battle Creek this Sunday for a District Invasion to canvas on behalf of Rep. Martin Griffin, R-Jackson, in the race for the vacant 19th District seat in the State Senate.
  
  To don’t have to [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
  

• Right-wing, anti-government fringe groups holding anti-UN rally on government property

  
  I thought this crap blew up with the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City 14 years ago, but apparently it’s making a comeback with the election of President Barack Obama.
  
  The Michigan Militia is holding an anti-United Nations rally on Saturday [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 3:34pm EDT
  

• The President deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

  
  It must be terrible to cheer against your own country.
  
  I’ll bet the right-wingers and the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus editorial board cheer for the Communist Chinese athletes during the Olympics. I’ll bet they cheered for the Russian Ice Hockey Team during [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:33pm EDT
  

• Irrational hated of the President leads to violence

  
  I thought I had seen the height of hatred and the quest to get someone at any cost with the election of President Bill Clinton in 1992, but the election of President Obama has unleashed unprecedented levels of insane hatred.
  
  The irrational hated is [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 10:10am EDT
  

• GOP pulling out all the stops and cash to capture 19th District seat

  
  With just 15 days left until the Nov. 3 Special election that will send Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, to the Michigan Senate to fill the 19th District seat vacated by the election of Congressman Mark Schauer, the Republicans are pulling out all the stops to capture [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:46pm EDT
  

• Detroit Tigers display hypocrisy over phantom ticket tax

  
  I have been a Detroit Tiger fan since I was 9 years-old, and I really loved Tiger Stadium before that historic gem was destroyed in favor of a corporate stadium financed in large part by public money.
  
  The budget mess in Lansing has been [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 10:40am EDT
  

• GOP following the script in the Senate race in the 19th District

  
  Rep. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, called it right back in July when in a letter to the House GOP caucus he pushed for the Michigan State Police headquarters to be the major campaign issue in the 2010 election.
  
  Mike Nofs is following that [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 11:37pm EDT
  

• Dueling doctors

  
  Lansing is the site of many protests, rallies and demonstrations as constituents and advocacy groups attempt to lobby and influence lawmakers.
  
  The budget process has spurred plenty of rallies, like the one held on Sept. 24 when doctors and human service advocates descended on Lansing [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:13pm EDT
  

• Protest planned against misguided choice for ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’

  
  Residents of Southwest Detroit are outraged that Grosse Pointe billionaire and Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Arab American Chaldean Council.
  
  They are so outraged that they are sending a petition of protest to the Council, and [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
  

• Lawmaker says protecting lungs more important than fuzzy dice

  
  LANSING – At least one Michigan lawmaker thinks protecting residents from deadly secondhand smoke is a little more important than being able to hang fuzzy dice from your rearview mirror.
  
  Sen. Tupac Hunter brought up the fact that action on the workplace smoking ban has [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 8:01am EDT
  

• ‘Act Now or Forever Hold Your Breath’ campaign launched

  
  Now that the bulk of the budget bills are out of the way, it’s time for the Michigan Legislature to take action on the long overdue workplace smoking ban.
  
  The Campaign for Smokefree Air has launched the “Act Now or Forever Hold Your Breath” [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
  

• Former State Representative Doug Spade announces run for Michigan Senate

  
  In a bit of great news, former State Representative Doug Spade, D-Adrian, formally announced today he is a candidate for the 16th District State Senate District that covers Lenawee, Hillsdale, Branch and St. Joseph Counties.
  
  “With two government shut-downs in the past three years, [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 2:44pm EDT
  

• Only debate for the 19th Senate seat goes forward even though Democratic candidate was in session

  
  It’s a little sad that in the important race for the vacant 19th District seat in the Michigan Senate next month there is only one, solitary head to head debate, but that’s the case in this important race.
  
  The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  

• Churches sponsoring rally to support equal rights for gays

  
  A pair of Livingston County churches are taking the moral high ground and co-sponsoring a rally on Sunday to support equal rights for gays.
  
  St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Community Unitarian Universalists in Brighton and Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:25am EDT
  

• Livingston County Republicans breach the public trust

  As expected, Livingston County’s state Legislative delegation is toeing the Republican line on the budgets cuts that will devastate the state, but the comments of Rep. Bill Rogers, R, Brighton, are becoming screechy.
  
  Just minutes after that the House adjoined on Tuesday after a marathon session that lasted until [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
  

• MDP calls for investigation of GOP underage drinking

  
  LANSING - The Michigan Democratic Party is calling for an immediate and thorough investigation of the underage drinking that took place at the so-called “GOP Leadership Conference” on Mackinac Island last week.
  
  Central Michigan University College Republican Vanessa Oblinger blogged about the [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 7:42pm EDT
  

• Whitmer announces run for Michigan Attorney General

  
  State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, became the first Democratic candidate for Michigan Attorney General, according to a story in the Lansing State Journal.
  
  According to the paper, she filed paperwork announcing her intention to run for state attorney general in 2010. She [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 1:08pm EDT
  

• ‘Stand With Griffin’ District Invasion set for Saturday

  
  College students from all over Michigan will be in Battle Creek this Saturday to show their support for Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, in his race for the vacant 19th District Senate seat that represents Calhoun and Jackson counties.
  
  Griffin voted in the minority on [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 10:28am EDT
  

• Livingston County’s state Legislative delegation spews GOP talking points in response to budget crisis

  It was no surprise that Livingston County’s state Legislative delegation is against any new tax revenues to save essential programs, but the comments coming from them are still a little surprising.
  
  The comments from freshman Rep. Bill Rogers, R-Brighton, were a little surprising. Rogers is a genuinely good guy [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 10:59am EDT
  

• Fight redlining with a rally on Wednesday

  
  If you’re tired of paying some of the highest auto insurance rates in the nation even you have never had an accident or even a traffic violation, then the place to be is at noon on Wednesday on the Capitol lawn to fight the practice [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
  

• Walk with Marty Griffin and volunteers Saturday to take back the Michigan Senate

  
  Rep. Marty Griffin, D-Jackson, is looking for volunteers to march in the annual Harvest Festival Parade that steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday in Parma.
  
  Griffin is running in a special election set for November for the 19th District that represents Calhoun and [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 8:22am EDT
  

• USA Today confirms what we already know: a smoking ban will reduce heart attacks

  
  “Community smoking bans have an immediate and dramatic effect on reducing heart attacks, according to two new analyses of laws in the USA, Canada and Europe,” says a story that appeared in USA Today this week.
  
  “Two separate analyses released Monday each found that [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 8:06am EDT
  

• Thinly disguised campaign piece sent out at taxpayer expense

  LANSING - There is little doubt that Sen. Bruce Patterson, R-Canton, is running for Michigan Attorney General, and because the nominee is chosen at the party convention, Patterson has been very busy playing to the base that has taken an extreme right turn.
  
  He got the GOP-controlled state Senate [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:11am EDT
  

• SOS candidate wants to make it harder for people to vote

  Common sense says the primary job and responsibility of the Michigan Secretary of State is to ensure the ease and security of elections. Somebody better tell that to Sen. Michelle McManus, R-Lake Leelanau, one of the GOP candidates for Secretary of State.
  
  In a mass email touting her endorsement [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 5:58pm EDT
  

• Proposed budget will kill any chance at economic recovery and mortgage the future

  
  LANSING – Diverse groups from the Michigan Municipal League (MML) to the Michigan Association of School Administrators expressed shock that House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford, agreed to use the all cuts budget proposed by Senate Republicans as targets for balancing the 2010 budget.
  
  Dillon is [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 8:17am EDT
  

• Join the Battle in Battle Creek for Michigan Saturday

  
  Join like minded Democrats and progressives this Saturday for the “Battle in Battle Creek” sponsored by the Justice Caucus for the first battle in the war to take back the Michigan Senate from the obstructionist Republicans.
  
  Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, is running in [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:43pm EDT
  

• Double standard reigns in Michigan Senate

  
  LANSING – At least one Michigan Democratic Senator expressed his frustration at the Senate majority’s refusal to move any bills sponsored by a Democratic.
  
  Sen. Ray Basham, D- Taylor, expressed that frustration Wednesday during the statement portion of the Senate session after bombastic Sen. [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:39am EDT
  

• Shadowy rightwing group attacking League of Woman Voters

  
  We already know corporate money has fueled the attack on real health care reform by financing attacks on Democratic Congressman and paid huge expensive buses for fake demonstrations, but now they are going after an organization that is synonymous with fair elections and unbiased [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 8:15am EDT
  

• Protest planned against rightwing whacko Beck

  
  Rightwing whacko Glenn Beck will be the keynote speaker at the Michigan Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 15 at the Kellogg Center on the campus at Michigan State University, 55 South Harrison in East Lansing, and the MSU College [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 2:19pm EDT
  

• Right-wingers are trying to martyr radical anti-choice demonstrator

  Right-wingers are becoming so predictable.
  
  The body of radical anti-choice demonstrator James Pouillon was not even cold when a few Michigan rightwing bloggers were saying, ‘why isn’t the murder of Pouillon on Friday in Owosso receiving as much coverage as the murder of Kansas Dr. George [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 10:55am EDT
  

• Robber Barons propose to turn Michigan around by making more money

  
  A business group of 70 Michigan CEOs calling itself “Business Leaders for Michigan (BLFM)” says it has a plan that will turn Michigan around, but it will do it at the expense of the poor and middle class and line their pockets even more.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:04am EDT
  

• Wilson is the newest Joe the Plumber

  
  There are a few things you can count on in this world, rain in April, the Detroit Lions breaking your heart and rightwingers making a hero out of someone who makes an ass of themselves. The latest rightwing hero is U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina.
  [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 8:24am EDT
  

• Do as I say not as I do

  
  LANSING -- If you were in the Senate gallery for the last two sessions of the Michigan Senate on Aug. 27 and Wednesday, you got to see another example of Senate Republicans calling out Democrats for something they routinely do.
  
  At the end of each [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:08pm EDT
  

• A rally to help fight politically motivated recall is Thursday

  
  A rally is set for Thursday to support Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, as she fights a recall attempt by Grosse Pointe billionaire and Republican benefactor Matty Moroun.
  
  Moroun has been trying to build a second span right next to the current Ambassador Bridge he [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 4:16pm EDT
  

• State employees are overworked and underpaid

  
  LANSING -- Michigan State University economics Professor Charles Ballard dispelled the myths that the public employee system in Michigan is bloated and that state workers are overpaid and have Cadillac health care benefits.
  
  Ballard recently conducted a comprehensive study on the wages [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
  

• Michigan Residents Deserve Fair and Affordable Insurance

  
  The national average annual car insurance is $949. Take a stab at what the average is in Detroit.
  
  $1,500? $2,000? $3,000?
  
  Try more than $5,000. These are the highest rates in the nation, in one of its poorest cities.
  
  In fact, in the [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 5:50pm EDT
  

• Don’t forget the counter protest to the fake Astroturf bus tour today

  In yet even more free publicity and promotion from the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus for the promotion of the big money, Anti-Obama partisan “Tea Party Express” bus tour sponsored by the rightwing “Our Country Deserves Better PAC that will be in Brighton today, the paper let’s [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:52am EDT
  

• The American people wonder if right-wingers can get any more ridiculous

  
  “And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it.”
  
  Only in the world of conservatives, can those words President Obama will say in a nationwide speech to students tomorrow be considered propaganda [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 9:52pm EDT
  

• Paper continues to promote fake bus tour farce

  
  You can’t pay for advertising like this.
  
  For the second time in less than two weeks, the Livingston County Daily Press and Argus has chosen to promote the anti-Obama and anti-Democratic “Tea Party” bus tour coming to Brighton on Tuesday, but this [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 12:33am EDT
  

• Friends of working men and women help dedicate museum and celebrate Labor Day

  
  MONROE -- The dedication of the new neon sign at the Monroe County Labor History Museum Saturday proved once against that Monroe is truly a labor town.
  
  The dedication of the sign at the only labor museum in the state was the highlight [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
  

• Michigan Republican Congressman are ducking townhall meetings

  We have all seem the “tea baggers” disrupt health care townhall meeting put on my Democratic members of Congress, courtesy of scripts provided by the two rightwing Washington, D.C. lobbying groups that are behind the fake, Astroturf “tea parties,” but why haven’t we seen many town halls put on by [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 1:48pm EDT
  

• Rogers invents new lie about health care reform

  
  Mike Rogers is a liar, but he is even taking the standard lie that the proposed health care reform plan will cancel your private health insurance and put everyone on Medicare, but he is even going farther and scaring senior citizens who love Medicare and telling [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:09am EDT
  

• Nofs needs Senate seat to pay for green fees and vacation home

  Mike Nofs - the Republican candidate for the Michigan Senate’s vacant 19th District seat against Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson - continues to pull the wool over people’s eyes and continues to sell the myth that he is a regular guy and pro-worker.
  
  Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 11:19pm EDT
  

• Scott to announce plans for rally for fair auto insurance rates

  
  Sen. Martha G. Scott, D-Highlander Park, will formally announce plans for her Sept. 30 rally where citizens from across the state will gather on the Capitol lawn to fight the practice of redlining and the high cost of auto insurance and demand insurance reforms [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
  

• Celebrate Labor Day weekend at the state’s only labor museum

  
  Monroe is the place to be this Labor Day weekend, and the highlight of the day is the dedication of the new neon sign at the Monroe County Labor History Museum, in downtown Monroe on Saturday, the only labor museum in the state.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
  

• Even state Republicans are lying about health care reform

  
  Michigan Republican Chair Ron Weiser is, not surprisingly, lying about health care reform.
  
  In a fundraising letter to supporters, he claims, “Some Democrats in Congress, including members from Michigan, are trying to pass laws to cancel your private health insurance and put your family on [...]
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  Posted: September 02, 2009, 6:26pm EDT
  

• Tobocman named new MPLP Co-Director

  
  Former Michigan House Majority Floor Leader Steve Tobocman, D- Detroit, was named co-director of the Michigan Political Leadership Program (MPLP) at Michigan State University (MSU), part of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR).
  
  IPPSR is a nonpartisan public policy network at [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 9:58pm EDT
  

• Join the Livingston County Democrats for a peaceful counter protest

  
  BRIGHTON – The Livingston County Democratic Party is planning a counter protest to the big money, Anti-Obama partisan “Tea Party Express” bus tour sponsored by the rightwing “Our Country Deserves Better PAC that will be in Brighton on Tuesday, Sept. 8.
  
  The farce will [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:24pm EDT
  

• Renewable energy rally features labor and environmentalists

  
  Coming on the heels of the news of a planned $1 billion conversion of the idle Ford Wixom plant into a massive renewable energy park resulting in 4,300 direct jobs, the BlueGreen Alliance and Repower America are holding a rally for clean energy jobs [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2009, 5:53pm EDT
  

• Get to the Peters townhall before the ‘tea baggers’ and ‘birthers’

  
  There can be no doubt that the extremist rightwing Washington, D.C. lobbying groups behind the fake, Astroturf and misnamed “tea parties” are the same people scripting the disrupting of the townhall meetings of Democratic Congressman.
  
  Republicans are promoting a pair of townhall meetings [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 1:49pm EDT
  

• The bill that will allow local municipalities to enact a workplace smoking ban is a smokescreen

  
  The move to pass House Bill 5077 in the Michigan Legislature that will allow local municipalities to enact a workplace smoking ban, including bars and restaurants, is a huge waste of time and a smokescreen because it will not stand up in court.
  
  Rep. Gary [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  

• Newspaper promotes anti-Obama Astroturf farce

  
  The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus finally got around to promoting the Anti-Obama partisan “Tea Party Express” bus tour that will be in Brighton next month, but they only give a passing mention of who is really behind this Astroturf farce.
  
  This [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 7:10pm EDT
  

• The Gray Panthers want to put a face on the uninsured

  
  We are all aware that 50 millon Americans have no access to health care coverage, but for many people that is just a number with no connection to real people.
  
  The fact is 11,000 people a day are joining the ranks of the uninsured [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 6:03pm EDT
  

• Senate Republicans thumb their noses at Michigan consumers

  
  LANSING -- Michigan Senate Republicans continue to stand up for the powerful and thumb their noses at Michigan consumers, but Sen. Buzz Thomas, D-Detroit, called them out on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
  
  The House passed a package of 12-bills last week on Aug. [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
  

• Union endorsement in Senate race is anti-worker

  
  Michigan Senate Republicans have been waging a war against Michigan workers and collective bargaining, so it was with shock and disbelief that I learned that Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Michigan State Council had endorsed the Republican in the race for the vacant 19th Senate District [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:15am EDT
  

• The end of an era

  
  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy
  February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009 [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 7:46am EDT
  

• Bridge company goes after critic with recall

  
  Its official; the misguided recall of a dedicated advocate for her Detroit district is being recalled for refusing to kowtow to Grosse Pointe billionaire and Republican benefactor Matty Moroun.
  
  According to subscription only MIRS, three recall petitions were filed against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2009, 8:49am EDT
  

• ‘Freedom Fest’ censors speech

  
  We already know the Astroturf “tea parties” are fake and the disruption of townhall meetings conducted by Democratic members of Congress are scripted by the same right wing lobbying groups, but now we find out a recent “Freedom Fest” is not free.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 11:41am EDT
  

• Campaign to take back the Michigan Senate in full gear

  
  BLACKMAN TOWNSHIP -- I knocked on my first door Saturday in the quest to take back the Michigan Senate from the obstructionist Republicans, knocking on doors with Rep. Martin Griffin, D-Jackson, in his race for the 19th District that represents Calhoun and Jackson counties that [...]
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  Posted: August 23, 2009, 11:19am EDT
  

• Right-wing think tank continues to attack state workers

  
  I guess sometimes they can’t help themselves.
  
  As you may have heard, respected Michigan State University professor of economics Charles Ballard recently issued a report that said state employees earn less than their private-sector counterparts with comparable educational attainment, on average. Hard working [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 9:38am EDT