A face for radio Last night I “appeared” on the Night Shift with Tony Trupiano radio show. We talked extensively about my interview with House Representative Ellen Cogen Lipton as well as our organizing efforts in Washtenaw County getting ready for victory in 2014. Enjoy: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/112694766″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [Photo by Anne C. Savage.]

Never could have seen this coming… It’s pretty hard to miss the fact that Al Jazeera America is in roll-out mode for their new television news network. They are marketing nearly everywhere. Ads on the web (including this site, in fact), billboards, taxi cab signs, they’re even sponsoring National Public Radio. The network purchased Al Gore’s “Current TV” network and, […]

So proud If you listen to the ad the Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recently released, an authoritarian narrator informs you that Michigan was once number 50. Dead last. He doesn’t actually tell you what we were last at but it’s clear that we were just the bottom of the barrel, the ole Mitten State. “Never again”, says the narrator. Governor […]

Test your knowledge — and for every correct answer you give, 10 cents will be donated to Planned Parenthood. Obamacare’s opponents are counting on people not understanding the Affordable Care Act and everything it has to offer. But those who know all the good Obamacare will do are smarter than that. Here’s your chance to prove it. Planned Parenthood put […]

It’s just like ACORN!!! Anti-Obama(care) types are appoplectic about the fact that the forms that people fill out to sign up for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act will also allow you to register to vote. “We all knew that it was transparent that Obamacare was just another vehicle to recruit the next generation of Democrats. Now that […]

“The House GOP’s debt limit bill isn’t a serious governing document…It’s a cry for help.” House Republicans are pretty clear what they want in exchange for not crashing the U.S. economy and maybe even the global economy by not extending the national debt limit: everything. Via Ezra Klein at the Wonkblog: The House GOP’s debt limit bill — obtained by […]

When millionaires run Terri Lynn Land, the only Republican outside of tea partier Rob Steele interested in running for Senate against Gary Peters, is a wealthy woman. How wealthy? Wealthy enough that she could all but self-finance her campaign. She and her husband are worth at least $34 million and own nearly 70s pieces of property in Florida and Michigan. […]

Legislation would allow taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny placement based on moral or religious views. At any given time, Michigan has 14,000 children in foster care — children who need good, stable homes. Yet Michigan legislators serving on the Michigan House Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors passed three bills out of committee today that could prevent these children from […]

The third in a series of posts intended to educate and inform. Why was U.S. Senator Ted Cruz reading Dr. Seuss on the Senate floor when talking about healthcare in America? Probably because there’s a good chance he wouldn’t like what real medical professionals have to say in support of Obamacare. I know, I promised to stick to the facts. […]

If Ted Cruz is really against things that kill American jobs, I can see why he’s trying to destroy the Republican Party. Last week, House Republicans erupted after Ted Cruz for indicating that he might not fight to pass the continuing resolution that defunded Obamacare he bullied them into passing. On Tuesday night, Cruz went out to the Senate floor […]

“Why have to work through all of the messiness of this thing called ‘democracy’?” I have written extensively about Michigan’s “Education Achievement Authority”. It as formed in September of 2012 as an interlocal agreement with Eastern Michigan University as a school district comprised of Michigan’s most failing schools. Originally it had 15 of Detroit’s worst schools. New legislation, House Bill […]