Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
So you may have seen Leon Drolet's pink pig come through Shiawassee?
Leon & co. are threatening to recall Dick Ball (yeah, right) for supporting a tax increase. Well, subscription only Gongwer is giving us some more insight into Leon's thinking, as to how we can balance the ...
Posted in Dick Ball, Michigan Budget, Politics, Valde Garcia | 15 Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I've been trying to ignore the 2008 Presidential ... sounds terrible, I know. Sorry but I can only care about so much at one time, and right now I'm stuck on the state budget & whatnot. (But Randy Colbry & Margaret McAvoy ought to know that their obscene ...
Posted in 2008 Presidency, Politics, barack obama, hillary clinton | No Comments »
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Mike Bishop's New Work Ethic - Ban The Blogs!!! on BFM
Well, now we've heard everything.
Thanks to fellow blogger & freelance writer Eric Baerren, we have some more "explanation" on why the Senate Republicans blocked access to BFM. Eric swapped some email with Matt Miner. Miner is Senate ...
Posted in BFM Posts, Blogging For Michigan, Censorship, Politics | 12 Comments »
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Bishop Accuses BFM Of Crime on BFM
By now you may know that the Michigan Senate has blocked access to BFM. MIRS and Gongwer have reported on this. Mike Bishop's Chief of Staff, Matt Miner, is the talking head behind all of this. I'd like to respond ...
Posted in BFM Posts, Blogging For Michigan, Censorship, Politics | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Is this real?
I came across this last night while pricing out ads on mlive. But when I clicked on the link, it took me to all of the Michigan stories except the Granholm story.
Governor Granholm has made several appointments in the last 4-6 weeks, so I suppose ...
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Working For A Living - Sunday Edition - on BFM
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
America Really, Really Hates Bush on BFM
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
Recent House Activities Reveal a Progressive Majority on BFM
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Messing With MESSA
It'd be sweet for BFM to get on the blogroll ... just sayin' ...
Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »
Friday, July 6th, 2007
The Challenge of Teaching in 'Exponential Times' , on BFM
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Note: This piece was submitted by guest author Stephen Crockett, host of Democratic Talk Radio.
Corporate Media pundits and sell-out Democratic personalities are denouncing a return to the Fairness Doctrine standards in broadcasting eliminated by the Reagan Administration. They are falling into a trap set by the Republican Right and ...
Posted in Politics, Stephen Crockett | 18 Comments »
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Michigan Business Tax Stumps Dick DeVos, over at BFM.
(Sorry, BFM isn't on leftyblogs yet)
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Conservatives Blame Workers for Michigan's Economic Woes by DJ, over at BFM.
Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
At 6:10am the Soapblox server that BFM is on went offline. I don't know why this happened, but it appears that all Soapblox sites on this IP are down.
Sorry about that ... hopefully it will be back up before anyone even reads this.
Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Another shameless leftyblog plug...
Governor Granholm Announces $25 Million For Cities Of Promise
Governor Granholm announced Tuesday that the Michigan State Housing Development Authority will fund up to $25 million over the next four years to help eliminate blight in her eight "Cities of Promise."
The cities targeted are Detroit, Pontiac, Hamtramck, Highland ...
Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Pardon the shameless leftyblog plug, but BFM isn't on the blogroll yet ...
Independence Day --
I'm not very good at holiday posts. Especially holidays like the 4th, or Memorial Day. They bring on this feeling that I have to write the best post of my life to pay ...
Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Cross-posted at BFM
I came across an interesting LSJ article this morning, which underscored some of the points we've been making at BFM.
First I'm going to say how irritated I am that it's an LSJ article ... I'm still mad at them. So, I'm going to link the article because I'm ...
Posted in Jennifer Granholm, Politics | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Cross posted at bloggingformichigan.com
The Deaf Edge has a post on the new law signed by Governor Granholm. The legislation requires employers, state and local governments, public and private schools, hospitals, restaurants, and other entities providing services to the public, to provide effective communication services to all. The law also requires ...
Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Some of you may have noticed that I've been working with 'Z' over at BFM. We recently moved the site from the WordPress platform to Soapblox.
As a result there may be some technical issues to work out. If you subscribed via RSS you may have to update your ...
Posted in Announcements, Politics | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
State Representative George Cushingberry, Jr. will be speaking at the Shiawassee Dems' June meeting tonight. Cushingberry is Chair of the Michigan House Appropriations Committee and will be speaking on the State of Michigan Budget.
Cushingberry will begin at 7pm.
The June meeting begins at 6pm and will adjourn prior ...
Posted in Politics | 4 Comments »