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UAW Rips Trump Ahead Of Speech To Fake Autoworkers

UAW Rips Trump Ahead Of Speech To Fake Autoworkers

Trump's planned publicity stunt where he is going to speak to autoworkers, non-autoworkers, and former union members has been denounced…

7 months ago

Racist Poll Watcher In Horror Film Mask Removed in Detroit

Trump's Michigan lawsuit about poll watchers not being given access has already disintegrated as the Detroit Free Press published video…

3 years ago

Trump Shows Up At Ford Factory And Insults Auto Workers

Trump showed up at a Ford factory in Michigan and told the workers in attendance that he doesn't use their…

4 years ago

Koch-Republican Austerity Is Killing Michigan Democracy And Poisoning Residents

Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life…

9 years ago

If Detroit Blows, Will Water Shutoffs Feed The Fire?

Ever since the civil unrest occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the murder of Michael Brown by a police officer…

9 years ago

Governor Snyder’s Plan To Erase Public Education In Detroit

Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder's intentions toward our city…

9 years ago

First Detroit, Now Baltimore Is Shutting Off Water To The Poor

I'm having a rather hard time understanding why it is that the City of Baltimore has apparently made the decision…

9 years ago

Detroit Flop City: Jeb Bush Pretends To Care About Poor People In First Speech

Jeb Bush is marketing himself as a different kind of conservative, but his ideas support the same GOP policies that…

9 years ago

Why Detroit Needs Obama’s Affordable Community College Plan To Work

As Detroit continues its comeback struggle, perpetually seeking to redefine and recreate itself as a more updated community, one of…

9 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

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

Netroots Progessives Work Into The Weekend

This will be my last report from the fascinating progressive recharge called Netroots. It has been a memorable journey especially…

10 years ago

Biden Gets Heckled and Other Highlights From Netroots

When Netroots finally got down to the business of pumping up progressive causes, there was no shortage of expert advice…

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,…

10 years ago

Winners and Losers From Last Night’s Off-Off Year Elections

There were many winners and losers (and one who won and lost) in last night's elections, but the biggest winner…

10 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…

10 years ago

Detroit’s Kwame Kilpatrick Ruined Kwame Kilpatrick

Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years for essentially running the city as his own personal piggy bank and playpen.

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

Republicans Are Gearing Up To Continue Their Senseless War on America

The Republican goal is clear; either Washington concedes to divest its power and transfer it to the wealthy and their…

11 years ago

Rick Snyder Gives Congressional Republicans A Road Map To Killing Your Retirement

Take a long, hard look at what Rick Snyder and turnaround specialist Kevyn Orr intend doing to pensioners in Detroit…

11 years ago

Alabama Commission Prays Away Gay Marriage – at Meeting About Power Rates

The Alabama Public Service Commission started a meeting about power rate structures with a prayer against Marriage Equality.

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

Gov Rick Snyder Continues to Dismantle Detroit’s Democracy Brick by Brick

Detroit's democracy is being dismantled brick by brick and the people are being muzzled, perhaps in order to force them…

11 years ago

Arne Duncan, Secretary of Misinformation and Miseducation

Who should we see sitting next to Secretary Duncan, joyfully reading stories to suitably enraptured Detroit school children but Gov.…

11 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…

11 years ago

Democracy Thief Rick Snyder is Struggling to Find an Emergency Manager for Detroit

It seems Gov. Rick Snyder is having a bit of difficulty finding anyone who wants the job of becoming the…

11 years ago

A Hilarious Fox Fail Ensues When They Try to Blame Democrats for Detroit’s Problems

Steve Doocy desperately tried to get reporter/author Charlie LeDuff to blame Democrats for Detroit's problems only to watch LeDuff list…

11 years ago

The fight to prevent hostile takeovers of public education goes national

The fight to save public education and retain local control of those schools against hostile takeover attempts has now attracted…

11 years ago

Guns don’t kill people. People with guns kill people. A whole lot of people.

Guns do not kill people. People armed with guns kill people. And people armed with assault rifles have the capability…

11 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…

11 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…

11 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,…

11 years ago

Rattner: Under Romney’s Plan, US Auto Makers Would Have Died

Steve Rattner, former US Treasury Auto Adviser, said that if Mitt Romney had his way General Motors and Chrysler would…

12 years ago

The Obama Auto Rescue Saved 154,843 Jobs and Added 17,000 in Ohio

Obama for America's new ad, 'Made in Ohio,' features Ohioans who know just how important President Obama's rescue of the…

12 years ago

Mitt, Who Wanted Detroit to go Bankrupt, Blames Obama for not ALL Auto Dealers Surviving

Romney, who wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, is angry that some auto dealers went bankrupt even though a bankrupt Detroit…

12 years ago

Michigan Defunding Presidential Election in Predominantly Democratic Detroit

Detroit is facing a crisis. It may not be able to conduct a Presidential election due to lack of funding…

12 years ago