Image via Wikipedia Congressional candidate “Top Kill” Tim Walberg has taken over $57,000 from Big Oil and other dirty energy companies while voting time and again to hand out tax breaks to BP and Big Oil. Our lawmakers shouldn’t be subsidizing BP and Big Oil but they should be protecting our Great Lakes. Yet Walberg…
Image by Urban~Spaceman via Flickr The inmates are taking over the asylum. In a big and incredibly under-reported story that some of us who count tea bags have been predicting for weeks now, the far right tea party caucus of the Michigan Republican Party is taking over. Thousands of cranky “tea party” types showed up…
Written by David Holtz Image by stevendepolo via Flickr Political pundits have been burning up the air waves and nets this week analyzing Tuesday’s primary election results with Rick Snyder’s takedown if not takeover on the Republican side getting lots of attention. Much less is being said about progressives and labor torching Andy Dillon’s…
CNN asked Hoekstra if he found it hypocritical to show up for the groundbreaking of a plant he voted against by opposing funding through the federal Recovery Act. We had a few questions for Hoekstra, too. We wanted to ask about whether Hoekstra’s votes for huge tax breaks for Big Oil was the same thing–minus…
Beginning this week, you’ll start seeing my name in your inbox, attached to Progress Michigan emails. That’s because I’ve joined the fabulous team here at Progress Michigan as a Communications Specialist. Who am I? I’m a lot of things: poet, mother, reporter, dog whisperer, amateur Iron Chef, rabid Tigers fan and activist. My special skills…