President Donald Trump blamed former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for the city of Flint’s ongoing water crisis and criticized his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden, for accepting Snyder’s endorsement. “I would NEVER have taken the endorsement of the man who, through gross incompetence, poisoned the people of Flint, Michigan,” Trump said, referring to the high levels…
A former Republican governor of Michigan has accused Donald Trump of trying to intimidate others and not having a grasp of policy issues as he endorses Joe Biden. Rick Snyder backed Biden in an op-ed published Thursday in USA Today. He wrote that he would continue to support Republican candidates down ballot but he couldn’t back the…
Joe Biden has won more endorsements from prominent Republicans this week as almost 100 former lawmakers and officials have formally backed his presidential bid. Republicans & Independents for Biden announced their endorsement on Thursday. They’re led by former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. They said the group’s “sole mission is to defeat Donald Trump…
British economist John Maynard Keynes famously wrote in 1923, in a tract on monetary policy, “In the long run, we’re all dead.†Economists have debated the significance of this wry theoretical phrase. Some have critiqued him, along with other economists who sought to moderate the austerity policies of governments during times of intense economic retraction,…
Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.
Who should we see sitting next to Secretary Duncan, joyfully reading stories to suitably enraptured Detroit school children but Gov. Rick Snyder.
The Detroit Public Schools emergency manager has announced his all-too-welcome decision to GTFO and step down in a couple weeks.
The clock is ticking, and Detroit’s new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in Detroit.
Rick Snyder’s intention all along has been to hijack democracy in Michigan – and Detroit in particular – and now he officially accomplished exactly that.
According to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, When in doubt and your opponent appears threatening, spread those cheeks and smile until it hurts.
It seems Gov. Rick Snyder is having a bit of difficulty finding anyone who wants the job of becoming the emergency manager for Detroit.
The fight to save public education and retain local control of those schools against hostile takeover attempts has now attracted nationwide attention.
if you want to get an idea of what is written in the post Election 2012 Koch Brothers Playbook (aka ‘How YOU Can Still Strangle Blue States in the Crib’), then you need look no further than Michigan.
Blackwell agreed to be Detroit’s Emergency Financial manager for $1.00/year. Subsequently, he decided to pay himself a total of $246,000 retroactively.
Republicans are using Michigan as a grand experiment to see if they can get away with setting fire to democracy in plain sight. They want to see if revenge bears fruit in winter.
The people of Michigan are letting Gov. Rick Snyder know that they don’t approve of him, or his right to work law. According to PPP, Snyder’s disapproval rating has shot up to 56%.
Many right-wing state governors are opting out of the ACA Medicaid expansion opportunity. Too much money say their governors. That’s a lie!
Rep. Gov. Rick Snyder is pushing ‘right to work’ legislation through the lameduck session in order to defund the Democratic Party.
If you want to get an idea of what Republican revenge for President Obama’s victory in 2012 looks like, look no further than Michigan.
It was a great day for the nation when President Barack Obama was re-elected to a second term in office, and it was also a good day in Michigan when voters cast their ballots to reject Proposal 1.
Republican Governor Rick Snyder and his henchmen continue to do all they can to thwart the will of the people by forcing PA4 (the Emergency Manager law) down their throats.
Michigan finally managed to get the Emergency Manager Law put on the ballot this November, meaning the law is now suspended. Snyder claims that all decisions made by EMs stand, while cities disagree.
Gov. Snyder isn’t yet receiving the off-with-his-independent-head kinda threats received by John Roberts after he also made the mistake of deciding to do the right thing rather than the easy thing
Rick Snyder is not Scott Walker. Both of them are repulsive in their own right, and each of their states would be considerably better off with them gone, but there are some significant differences.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is going on a deregulation spree ostensibly to create jobs, even though the CBO clearly laid out that deregulation does not create jobs.
Republicans decided that the people of Michigan should not be allowed to vote on the Emergency Manager law because the size of the font on the petition. Seriously.
Despite scoring a recent major victory, opponents of Michigan’s Emergency Manager law had their efforts to get a repeal measure on the ballot blocked by Republicans on the Board of State Canvassers.
It is no exaggeration to say that Michigan’s emergency manager laws are a threat to democracy, and the chance to repeal them faces an uncertain future
If Romney wins in November, urban communities around the country will be forced into dependency by hateful Republicans. If Obama loses, Detroit is a preview of things to come.
House Republicans are trying to place a provision in the payroll tax cut extension that would cut benefits for millions, including unemployed Republicans.
