Even top educators are walking away The “school district for wayward schools”, Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority, has been under increasing scrutiny over the past year. Questions have been raised about the veracity of their testing and test scores. State legislators on the Education Committee have raised red flags only to be told they have to file Freedom of Information Act […]

This could be the case that overturns same-sex marriage bans across the country once and for all Photo by Anne C. Savage April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse are fighting to overturn Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban, a law passed in 2004 which now is supported by less than half of our state’s residents. What started as a challenge to Michigan’s adoption […]

The ban on same-sex marriage in Michigan can tear families apart [left to right: April, Nolan, Jacob, Jayne, and Ryanne] A few years ago, what started as a family vacation in Ohio nearly ended up in a fatal car crash for April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse. The two nurses had their three adopted children with them and the close call […]

I hate to tell you this, but it’s not going to work The Republican party is in desperation mode trying to ingratiate themselves with the African American community. Having spent the last several decades using race-baiting techniques to drum up support with southern whites, they’ve suddenly seen the light and know that, unless they can begin appealing to the black […]

You’re not helping. Not at all. Flint is a city that is slowly working to crawl its way out of the crater left behind when automakers left and the manufacturing sector imploded. Bit by bit, one step at a time, city leaders are bringing the city back with a strong vision for the future. Then stuff like this happens: Flint […]

You’ve probably heard that since Obamacare launched red state Kentucky has reduced its uninsured population by 9%. If Texas did that, 561,141 people would be insured and hell would have frozen over. In 2010, 6,234,900 Texans lacked health insurance and Republicans apparently decided that their biggest problem was that they weren’t producing enough uninsured people to keep that number growing. […]

Sorta like gerrymandering, when you think of it As I wrote about in my now-viral piece “Michigan about to require women to buy “rape insurance” based on petition signed by 4.2% of voters”, a new law will likely go into effect in the near future in Michigan that will require women to plan ahead for their abortions — even if […]

The desperation is getting palpable While Governor Rick Snyder met with billionaire Warren Buffett and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in Detroit yesterday, another group of wealthy moneymen were across town filing a motion with the federal judge asking that he take action on their behalf in Detroit’s ongoing bankruptcy saga. The banks that are owed money by Detroit are […]

We covered the gamut from success stories to sabotage, shedding light on topics some media outlets are ignoring. I was delighted to be a guest on Tony Trupiano’s podcast series, which he’s running until he’s fully recovered from surgery and back to hosting the “Night Shift with Tony Trupiano” radio show. The initial focus was my Obamacare success story, which […]

The unstoppable force meets the immovable object Our pit bull Suni and our cat Spooky adore each other. However, sometimes one’s happiness gets in the way of the others happiness. No, we did not glue the cat down.

Since the day that the ACA (aka Obamacare) health insurance exchanges launched on October 1st, I’ve been tracking the number of applications, enrollments and Medicaid/SCHIP expansion signups at ACASignups.net. Obviously the first few weeks were, shall we say, rocky. In addition to the now infamous website problems, reporting on the numbers was all over the map as well, with many “serious” […]