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From COVID Response to Infrastructure Bill, Biden Is De-Criminalizing Government to Support American Lives

From COVID Response to Infrastructure Bill, Biden Is De-Criminalizing Government to Support American Lives

Building back better, which is how Biden characterizes his agenda of running government to address American’s needs, is, indeed, an…

4 years ago

Special election to replace Conyers to be held Nov. 2018: governor

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said on Friday the state would hold a special election on Nov. 6, 2018, to replace…

7 years ago

Don’t Be Fooled: Existing Extremism Is Not Trump but GOP Establishment

Trump has effectively functioned as a smoke screen for the remarkably consistent orchestration of a Republican scorched earth policy at…

8 years ago

Democrats Bust Rick Snyder For Lying To Congress About Flint Water Crisis

House Oversight Democrats have released written responses to questions from Congress to Gov. Rick Snyder about the Flint Water Crisis,…

9 years ago

Stand With Flint: Activists Vow To Fight Until Rick Snyder is Removed From Office

Michigan Republicans aren't fooling anyone. Activists aren't slowing down their pursuit of Gov. Rick Snyder after three individuals were charged…

9 years ago

Republican Cover Up: Criminal Charges Against 3 For Flint Water Crisis But Not Rick Snyder

The Republican cover-up is in full swing in Michigan as GOP Attorney General Schuette will announce felony and misdemeanour charges…

9 years ago

Democratic Congressman Obliterates Rick Snyder At Flint Water Crisis Hearing

Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) obliterated Gov. Rick Snyder for his failure to take responsibility while trying to spread the…

9 years ago

GOP Rhetoric Blames the Federal Government for Snyder’s Poisoning the People of Flint

The problem has nothing to do with Washington, D.C. “choking off” infrastructure spending. The problems lay in Snyder’s tax cuts

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Calls For Federal Criminal Investigation Into Rick Snyder For Poisoning Flint

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders is calling for a federal criminal investigation into Gov. Rick Snyder and his administration…

9 years ago

Snyder Sent Flint Emergency Manager To Poison Detroit School Children

The poisoning of Flint's school children is what is expected when Republicans abolish democracy to provide more money for the…

9 years ago

Resignation? Jail Gov. Rick Snyder, Make Corporations Pay For Poisoning 25,000 Children

Snyder was well aware of the lead-tainted water before long before he claims he learned he was poisoning children.

9 years ago

Obama Declares A Federal Emergency In Michigan Due To Lead Contaminated Water

President Obama has declared a federal state of emergency in Michigan that will allow FEMA and other agencies to provide…

9 years ago

Bernie Sanders Demands That Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Resign Over Flint Water Crisis

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) demanded that Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder resign after hundreds of children were…

9 years ago

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Poisons Flint Kids And Then Declares An Emergency

This all began when one of Snyder's emergency dictators decided safe drinking water from Lake Huron didn't fit the corporate…

9 years ago

Michigan Citizens Strike Back At Rick Snyder’s Corporate Wealth Transfer

Of course the mainstream media has not reported on events in Michigan because the last thing corporate media wants is…

9 years ago

Michigan And North Carolina Republicans Enact Un-Constitutional Theocratic Laws

Today, more so than at any time in the nation's history, evangelical Republicans are on a crusade to base the…

9 years ago

Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle Class

Even though most Republican governors are wary of going all-in on tax cuts for the rich and corporations like trickle-down…

10 years ago

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Stuck On Repeat

Gov. Snyder has no intention of allowing the people of Detroit any say-so when it comes to Detroit Public Schools.

10 years ago

A Final Look Back At An Odd Outcome And Maybe Some Mischief

Republicans blame Obama for not putting policies into effect that either (A) belonged in a fun house or (B) that…

10 years ago

Can’t Blame Obama: African-American Voters Showed Up But Rick Snyder Won In Michigan

We can't blame this on Obama. And we can't blame it on Detroit voters not turning out at the polls…

10 years ago

Newspapers Across America Are Stealthily Helping The Koch Brothers Buy The Government

What makes newspapers actions more despicable is that they are not owned by the Kochs, but they are using so-called…

10 years ago

Lack of Integrity Drives Support for Corrupt Republicans

Dutifully, Republicans have stepped up to meet their base's demand to be corrupt, and dishonest, and it is evident in…

10 years ago

Won’t Get Fooled Again: Rick Snyder Won’t Con Michigan Twice With “Moderate Nerd” Persona

If the person who you elected to represent you only listens to you when you are saying what he wants…

10 years ago

To Pillage and Plunder: Republican Leadership to Make 150,000 Homeless in Detroit

In the next year and a half, as many as 150,000 people are expected to lose their homes due to…

10 years ago

Do Not Let Republican Candidates Hide Their Extremism These Midterms

Scott Walker, Sam Brownback, Rick Perry, Rick Snyder, and others, are ideological and religious extremists, and their hate, win or…

10 years ago

Republicans Governors Facing Extinction As Democratic Wave Looms

While the mainstream media is obsessed with the contest for control of the Senate, Democrats are poised to wipe out…

10 years ago

Democracy Returns To Detroit…Or Does It?

On Thursday evening, September 25, democracy was permitted to return to Detroit when City Council members voted unanimously to restore…

10 years ago

Teacher-Hating Right-Wing Shill Campbell Brown Deserves All The Criticism She’s Getting

You may know Campbell Brown as a former anchorwoman who had regular gigs on CNN and NBC. Since then, she…

10 years ago

Republican Economic Policies Are Creating a Downgrade Frenzy In States Across The Country

The pattern is unmistakable; Republicans are ill-prepared to manage finances or an economy whether it is at the state or…

10 years ago

Double Whammy: Democrats Are In a Position To Beat Both Rick Scott and Rick Snyder

Two new polls reveal that Democrats are in a position to beat both Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, and Gov.…

10 years ago

Democrats Have a Chance To Take Out Both Rick Snyder and Scott Walker In The Same Year

A new poll of Michigan shows Gov. Rick Snyder (R) in a statistical tie with Mark Schauer 44.6%-44.3%. This poll…

10 years ago

Gov. Rick Snyder’s Emergency Manager Is Denying Poor People Running Water In Detroit

A coalition working with organizations and activists the world over to promote water as a basic human right filed a…

10 years ago

Republican Rick Snyder’s Scythe Cuts Through Michigan’s Surplus and Kills Job Growth

Under Republican Governor Rick Snyder, Michigan shows how starving the beast and corporate giveaways plays out on a micro level,…

11 years ago

Michigan State Senator Slams GOP Legislature Over ‘Rape Insurance’

On Wednesday, the Michigan State Senate passed a bill that requires a woman to purchase separate health insurance prior to…

11 years ago

White Guy Wins Campaign for Mayor in Detroit. But That’s Not Really the Story

Judging by some of the recent headlines it appears that the big election day story coming out of Detroit is…

11 years ago

Where Were You When They Stole Detroit’s Democracy?

If it happens here, it certainly won't end here. The threat to Detroit's democracy is a threat to everyone who…

11 years ago

Detroit is the New Conservative Wet Dream

With entire swaths of Detroit uninhabited, some white knights are swooping in and buying up empty lots, parking lots and…

11 years ago

Detroit Sinks Deeper Into Hell As It Faces Right Wing Utopian Fantasies

Detroit faces austerity, vulture capitalists, and privatization as right wing ideologues pounce. Of course, no good will come of it.

11 years ago

Detroit Is Beta-Test of the GOP Plan To Sell The Federal Government to Corporations

The first beta-test of selling off a city to corporations began when an emergency manager in Detroit filed for bankruptcy,…

11 years ago

This Is What Happens When Common Sense Invades the Republican Party

Being found in possession of even a sliver of conscience and an ounce of common sense is proving to be…

11 years ago

Another Tea Party Governor Crashes and Burns: Rick Snyder Trails Democrat in Michigan

Not only is Rick Snyder one of the most unpopular governors in the country, but he is trailing his Democratic…

11 years ago

Tears of Joy as Emergency Manager Is Leaving Detroit Public Schools

The Detroit Public Schools emergency manager has announced his all-too-welcome decision to GTFO and step down in a couple weeks.

12 years ago

Right to Work Could Cost Him His Job as Democrats Are Tied With Rick Snyder

A poll by EPIC/MRA has found that Rick Snyder will be facing a battle for reelection. Snyder has seen his…

12 years ago

Gov. Snyder’s Emergency Manager Law May Violate Equal Protection Rights

The clock is ticking, and Detroit's new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date…

12 years ago

Detroit’s Emergency Manager Is Just As Guilty As the Crook Who Hired Him

Rick Snyder's intention all along has been to hijack democracy in Michigan - and Detroit in particular - and now…

12 years ago

Mayor Dave Bing Says Detroit May as Well Get Used to Being Screwed

According to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, When in doubt and your opponent appears threatening, spread those cheeks and smile until…

12 years ago

The Tea Party’s Intolerable Acts Are a Parting Shot from George III

The Tea Party's actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776…

12 years ago

Michiganders Force Returning Lawmakers to Take the Walk of Shame

More than 100 Michigan workers welcomed back their lawmakers to the Capitol with shouts of 'Shame!', after they voted to…

12 years ago

The Unfettered Power of Michigan Emergency Managers Invites Corruption

Blackwell agreed to be Detroit's Emergency Financial manager for $1.00/year. Subsequently, he decided to pay himself a total of $246,000…

12 years ago

The Koch Puppet Governors Continue to Dance for Their Masters as Rome Burns

A carefully planned, long term campaign to subvert democracy is the sole intention of GOP governors, ALEC, and their puppet…

12 years ago

The Real Motive of Michigan Republicans’ Right-to-Work Push is ‘Pure Greed’

Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing 'right to work' legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic…

12 years ago

You live in Michigan? Your rights are optional

If you want to get an idea of what Republican revenge for President Obama's victory in 2012 looks like, look…

12 years ago

You Have the Freedom to be Pepper Sprayed in Rick Snyder’s Michigan

His decision to pepper spraying protesters shows just how much Rick Snyder respects people making choices.

12 years ago

Michigan Demands Democracy by Rejecting Emergency Manager Legislation

It was a great day for the nation when President Barack Obama was re-elected to a second term in office,…

12 years ago

Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Thumbs his Nose at Court Ruling

Republican Governor Rick Snyder and his henchmen continue to do all they can to thwart the will of the people…

12 years ago

Democracy Fights Back as Michigan’s Emergency Manager Law Gets Suspended

Michigan finally managed to get the Emergency Manager Law put on the ballot this November, meaning the law is now…

12 years ago

Rick Snyder Makes Michigan More Dangerous With Reckless Deregulation Spree

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is going on a deregulation spree ostensibly to create jobs, even though the CBO clearly laid…

13 years ago

Michigan Republicans Turn Citizens into Serfs

“Moderate” Republican Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's tax policy drops corporation income taxes by 83 percent, while increasing taxes by 23…

13 years ago

Detroit Vows To Close The Door On Emergency Financial Manager

Detroiters raise their voices - and combine forces - to do whatever is necessary to prevent an EFM from being…

13 years ago