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Suppose you find your calendar accessible on the morning of April 6, 2023, or you can clear your calendar. In that case, you might consider heading to Midland and helping the Women of Michigan Action Network welcome Governor Ron DeSantis (R – Hates books, kids, women, drag queens, Disney, etc.) to the state or, as […]

Hello and welcome back. Up North Progressive went on hiatus after a six-month secret project that caused more mental and emotional damage than anticipated. What was the project? Six months working at a charter school. After years of writing about the deplorable state of for-profit charter schools, the opportunity came to find out what it’s […]

What we celebrate this Independence day is a good question. Make yours count.

We made it.

If you live up north in mid-July, 2021, you probably can’t help but notice cream-colored gypsy moths and their darker-hued boyfriends flying all over the place. Gypsy moths are non-native invasive species in North America. After the Civil War, gypsy moth eggs arrived in Boston in an attempt to develop a silk market in the […]