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AG Bill Schuette using his office as a right wing political toolAG Bill Schuette using his office as a right wing political tool

I'll be on First Shift this morning to discuss Bill Schuette's actions so far as Attorney General. Here's some of the research...

Wisconsin Democrats submit more than 1,000,000 signatures to recall Gov WalkerWisconsin Democrats submit more than 1,000,000 signatures to recall Gov Walker

Wisconsin's anti-union, anti-middle class, anti-99% governor is about to have his hat handed to him.  The people of...

Asking for democracy is democracy in actionAsking for democracy is democracy in action

Say what? Well I was checking out this article on the MLK march on Snyder's residence, and found this tidbit here:"We elect...

‘Choose Life’ plates would fund Right to Life through the Secretary of State‘Choose Life’ plates would fund Right to Life through the Secretary of State

Based on what we've seen of Snyder & the GOP legislature so far, this is definitely going to pass:Among the legislation...

Welcome to cbdcWelcome to cbdc

Hello listeners of First Shift. Thanks for stopping by. This blog is about to be rebooted and will have new posts again in a...

Report shows Shiawassee unemployment rate downReport shows Shiawassee unemployment rate down

The Michigan League for Human Services has issued a report (pdf) that shows some good news for Shiawassee. The unemployment...

Propane Price Gouging In Shiawassee?

I hate it when bloggers blog about themselves, but this experience might help someone out there.

Ok. So I get my propane from McBrides / Northwest, and I just paid $3.59 a gallon.

This did not seem right to me, so a friend of mine called them to check on it. The current rate for [...]

5 Simple Rules For Beating Obama

Not rules, really. I just needed a snappy title.

Human Events, the conservative online magazine, has an article on Five Ways for McCain to Beat Obama. The premise is that McCain should focus on these five points:

National Security – Obama opposed Iraq war The Courts – Obama opposed the confirmation of Justices Samuel Alito [...]

Anonymity Necessary In Shiawassee

There’s a letter to the editor in yesterday’s Argus, that’s a bit of a slam to blogs.

Don’t give us half of a year-old story that you picked up from reading blogs. That does not seem very professional as we all know blogs are anonymous and self-serving.

First of all I’m just going to [...]

Commish Stewart Distributes Newsletter

I received a newsletter from Commissioner Dan Stewart yesterday. It looks like he’s going to try to publish these monthly. It’s a summary of what he’s been working on and what’s coming up.

I’ve converted it to pdf, and you can download a copy here – http://christinebarry.com/downloads/stewart_feb.pdf

Owosso Public Schools Lawsuit

There are a couple of threads over on the Shiawassee forums that should be of interest to anyone with kids in the OPS system. They revolve around the lawsuit brought against OPS by Jim McAvoy, former Technology Director for Owosso Schools. If I’m reading the info correctly, the lawsuits allege that McAvoy was dismissed due [...]

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