Okay, can I just say how much I love THIS??? In Traverse City volunteers collected about 1200 signatures within a few hours Saturday afternoon. “People saw the signs at our table and on our many petitioner’s clipboards and eagerly offered their support,“ said Amy Hardin of Reject Emergency Managers. “We blasted through our first box of petitions in no time […]

I have a piece up at A2Politico.com that reveals the breaking news that 28 Michigan residents along with the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a lawsuit in Michigan challenging the constitutionality of Public Act 4, the so-call “Financial Martial Law Act” recently passed by Republicans. The defendents in the […]

This Saturday, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. is an informational townhall meeting on the effort to repeal the Financial Martial Law Act recently passed by the Republicans in Michigan’s legislature. I will be a featured speaker in the Michigan Forward-sponsored event, talking about the history of the law and what it does. Here are the details from their press […]

The Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, a non-profit law firm based in Detroit, just released this news: CITIZENS TO ANNOUNCE MAJOR STATEWIDE ACTION AGAINST MICHIGAN’S CONTROVERSIAL EMERGENCY MANAGER LAW Over two dozen citizens from across Michigan will announce, on Wednesday, June 22, a major action directed against Michigan’s controversial “emergency manager” law. The new law has serious […]

I just wanted to take a minute to give my very warm thanks to all the Eclectareaders out there who donated to Team Eclectablog’s fundraiser for Netroots for the Troops (NFTT). If you didn’t get a chance to see what our effort resulted in, have a look HERE. Also, to give you an update on my friend Tony, the main […]

This is a repost from Daily Kos. This is primarily going to be a photodiary about our amazingly successful Netroots for the Troops event at Netroots Nation this year. However, I must first tell you that Tony (TexDem) is currently in the hospital in Minneapolis. He has been having trouble with kidney stones and was in a high level of […]

I’m in Minneapolis for the Netroots Nation progressive bloggers conference. Yesterday I had a full day of workshops, meetings, networking and helping out with Netrrots for the Troops. You can read my write-up at A2Politico: “Dispatch from the Netroots Nation Progressive Bloggers Conference” Pictures and everything! Enjoy.

I’m en route to Netroots Nation but had to pull off to blog THIS: A whistle-blower lawsuit filed by a former top aide to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing this morning alleges that the mayor had plans to be named emergency manager for the city and Detroit Public Schools, dissolving the city council and the school board. ~SNIP~ Collins said in […]

My sis-in-law sent me this. Totally a hoot. “Pay my 80 bucks for six things and get out…” LOL Replace “West Side of LA” with “South Side of AA” and you pretty much have Ann Arbor. And then this 30 seconds of cuddlicious kitteh goodness from Lizz Winstead’s tweet stream: All together now: “Aaaaaawwwwww…” Off to the Twin Cities for […]

I’ll be on First Shift with Tony Trupiano radio show in Detroit at just after 7 a.m. Wednesday morning if you’re up and around and interested in hearing my blatherings. I’ll be talking with Tony about the Pontiac EFM who just outsourced the city’s water treatment to a company facing a 26-count federal indictment for violations of the Clean Water […]

Okay, folks, one more time, this time with FEELING! Tomorrow I leave for Minneapolis to attend the Netroots Nation progressive bloggers conference. My Team Eclectablog thermometer stands at only 56% of my goal of raising $2,500 for this most-worthy cause. Please consider chipping in. Thanks,Eclectablog Every year at the Netroots Nation conference, a group of very hard-working, compassionate and caring […]