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Michigan’s Free Fishing Weekend Is This Saturday and Sunday
Tuesday , 9, June 2015 DNR Leave a commentTwice a year the Michigan Department of Natural Resources offers free fishing weekends to anyone interested in fishing Michigan’s Great Lakes or over 11,000 inland lakes. Fishing is also free on rivers and streams, any place in the state where people may want to fish. The summer free fishing weekend for 2015 is this Saturday, […]
Petition Campaign For Vote-By-Mail Begins: Let’s Vote, Michigan!
Friday , 5, June 2015 Community 2 CommentsBack in November of 2014 Up North Progressive published a story about how one state in the US had a significantly high turnout of voters despite it being a midterm election. The reason why they had a successful election while everyone else battled apathy and GOP-fueled disenfranchisement was because every registered voter in that state […]
With Potato You Get Fresh Protein: Aramark Strikes Again
Wednesday , 3, June 2015 Nerd Problems 2 CommentsPrison inmates found maggots living in potatoes they were cutting on June 2nd at G. Robert Cotter Prison in Jackson, Michigan. The kitchen was closed and inmates were sent back to their units while the prison shut down the food line and cleaned it. All potatoes in the prison were thrown away. This is the […]
Part of the beauty of Morel hunting in northern Michigan is the opportunity to enjoy the woods in spring. Usually this means looking at spring flowers, plants, trees budding and perhaps the glimpse of an animal. Usually humans make enough noise to warn wildlife it’s time to disappear. Such was the case with this little […]
Another Public Education Hit Piece Courtesy of Bill Gates and MLive.com: Education Trust Edition
Wednesday , 20, May 2015 Section 16 1 CommentKyle Feldscher tells a tale of horror and woe about to befall public education in Michigan if something isn’t done about it right now. According to his article, “Michigan risks falling behind traditionally low-achieving states in public education” a report shows Michigan’s children are achieving so poorly in public schools the state’s ranking could possibly […]
This is the view looking west toward the capital on Michigan Avenue as you pass by Omar’s strip club. The capital dome is getting a shiny coat of paint and repairs to the tune of $6.4 million. The last time expensive renovations happened at the capital was when Republican Governor John Engler was in office. […]
Voter’s Rejection of Proposal 1 About More Than Taxes
Wednesday , 6, May 2015 Nerd Problems 15 CommentsIn 2011, Rick Snyder talked about shared sacrifice and raised taxes on poor people, the elderly and the middle class. He slashed spending on schools and gave corporations a big tax cut because they’re the “job creators.” What do we have to show for this shared sacrifice? Crumbling roads, shuttered schools, “emergency management,” eliminated services, […]
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Michigan Republicans Adopt Resolution Demanding SCOTUS Respect States’ Rights: Anti-Marbury v. Madison Edition
Monday , 4, May 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage Leave a commentStraws, meet Clutching. Right-wing religious authoritarians in the United States are terrified because they know the end of treating same sex couples as second class citizens no longer is a matter of if, but when. Their ability to discriminate against people of the LGBT community makes them cry out they’re the ones being discriminated against. […]
Proposal 1 Will Be Defeated 2 To 1 On May 5 Latest Poll Predicts
Sunday , 3, May 2015 Nerd Problems Leave a commentIn an EPIC-MRA poll released on May 1, both likely voters and certain voters answered they would vote no on proposal 1 on May 5 by a margin of two to one against those who plan to vote yes. Proposal 1, if passed, would increase Michigan’s sales tax from 6% to 7%, and trigger ten […]