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DETROIT
The #FlintWaterCrisis Didn't Just Happen
By Laura Packard, Contributor
Digital strategist
The Republican Party-controlled state legislature has been eating the seed corn in Michigan for so long that there's very little to plant for the future. But, hey, with term limits, that's nobody's problem.
DENVER
Preemption of Democracy by ALEC, its Corporate Funders, and Republican & Democratic Corporatists
By Michele Swenson, Contributor
Author, activist
Message to media pundits: "It's the Corporatocracy, stupid!" Government has been coopted in service of the corporate bottom line, bought by the likes of the Koch brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council which writes model laws to supplant democracy and overcome the common good.
ENVIRONMENT
Flint Is All Around Us
By Carl Pope, Contributor
Principal Advisor at Inside Straight Strategies
So, is Flint simply the story of a callous, politically motivated and irresponsible group of state and federal officials looking the other way? Is this story a one-off? Unfortunately, no.
DETROIT
Detroit's Public School Educators Lead Protests With Moral Authority On Their Side
By Eli Day, Contributor
Former congressional policy adviser, Detroit-bred writer of po...
When the state ignores this history of policymaking angled towards maiming Detroit's public schools, it fails to meet any
ENVIRONMENT
'Green News Report' - January 21, 2016
By Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, Contributor
Co-hosts of the radio’s nationally syndicated ‘Green News Report’
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Surprise! 2015 was the hottest year ever recorded on Planet Earth; MI Gov. Rick Snyder apologizes
POLITICS
Michigan's Right-Wing Crusader
By Sam Inglot, Contributor
Communications Specialist with Progress Michigan, activist and...
In a column that ran in the Detroit Free Press on Monday morning, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette laid out a weak and hypocritical argument regarding his opposition to marriage equality in Michigan.
DETROIT
Rick Snyder Is Not a Good Political Leader
By Dale Hansen, Contributor
Political Sherpa
If you have watched any of Rick Snyder's election ads you will see that the governor fancies himself a leader, however, since being a leader isn't a title one can just bestow upon one's self the question should be what does the governor's record tell us about his leadership skills.
DETROIT
Republicans Grasping at Straws in Gay Marriage Debate
By Dale Hansen, Contributor
Political Sherpa
In a number of states across the country, including Michigan, Republicans are fighting progress and asking that their states be allowed to discriminate against people based on sexual preference by allowing gay marriage bans approved by voters and state legislatures to remain legal.
DETROIT
Parking Violated: Death by a Thousand Papercuts
By Michele Oberholtzer, Contributor
Writer, engineer, environmentalist, community activist living ...
Think twice before you drive into downtown Detroit. It's not that you'll be carjacked or get lost on our bewildering road network, but you will get ripped off if you deign to park here.
DETROIT
Deceptive minimum wage rhetoric won't help working poor
By Dale Hansen, Contributor
Political Sherpa
Concern over this ballot measure forced the Republican- controlled Legislature to provide a workaround that cuts voters out
DETROIT
Gov. Rick Snyder: One Misleading Flip-flopper
By Dale Hansen, Contributor
Political Sherpa
So far in this election cycle, Snyder and his team of experts have proven to be very good at creating catchy nicknames and misrepresenting data to make it appear the governor has had a positive impact.
BLACK VOICES
Mogul's Use Of Plantation Imagery Prompts Firestorm In Detroit
By Ashley Woods
DETROIT
Saturday Morning Marriage-Rush: Families Racing Against Their Government
By Kevin Walsh, Contributor
Writer, teacher, producer of documentary series, "Digging Detr...
The Oklahoma land-rush scene from Far and Away, best illustrates what's happening this morning in many county clerk's offices in Michigan.
DETROIT
Poster City of Abandonment
By Robert Koehler, Contributor
Peace journalist
It's long been one of the country's designated loser cities, beginning in the 1960s, when change hit it hard. The phrase at the time was "urban blight," a social cancer with unexamined causes that, in the ensuing years, has gotten progressively worse.
DETROIT
So Detroit's Streetlights Are Ancient -- You Got a Problem With That?
By Eric McAfee, Contributor
Urban Planning Consultant
Seven months after the announcement, it still seems like the largest municipal bankruptcy filing (at least up to this point) is the stuff of legend. But the failure that crowds out the rest, no doubt at least partially due to its ubiquity and ordinariness, is the persistent non-functionality of those streetlights.
DETROIT
Pensioners Win and Banks Lose a Round in the Detroit Bankruptcy
By Wallace Turbeville, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Demos
Why did Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr rush through a settlement that even the bankruptcy court found to be fundamentally out of balance while simultaneously pounding away at the public employee pensions?
DETROIT
Mike Duggan: Detroit Rejected or Detroit Recovered?
By David Alexander Bullock, Contributor
Gadfly. Agitator. Intelligently Irreverent. Faith Leader. Spok...
Mayor Duggan cannot rest his laurels on mere trash pick up and snow removal. He has got to attack poverty in Detroit head on.
POLITICS
Michigan's Takeover of Detroit Exposes Strains Over Control
By Ashley Woods
POLITICS
There's nothing nuclear about the nuclear option
By Dale Hansen, Contributor
Political Sherpa
In Michigan, the governor has the power to essentially invalidate local elections by appointing an emergency manager. While
POLITICS
Conservatism... It's the New Liberalism
By Lauren Windsor, Contributor
Executive Producer - The Undercurrent
Why is it that conservatives, who tout their morality and fiscal responsibility, are so liberal with the stewardship of our planet's resources; so liberal with their interpretation of empirical evidence; so liberal with scientific acts?
BLACK VOICES
How Long Must This Michigan City Wait For Democracy?
By Ashley Woods
DETROIT
Broke Detroit Lost $1 Million In A DRAWER
By Kate Abbey-Lambertz
DETROIT
U.S. Appeals Court: Emergency Manager Law Passage 'A Farce'
DETROIT
A Little Good News For Bankrupt Detroit
DETROIT
Detroit Doesn't Need an Emergency Manager
By Bob Kleine, Contributor
43rd State Treasurer of Michigan
Kevyn Orr can reduce wages, force city workers to pay more for health care and pensions, and arrange for public-private partnerships, such as businesses adopting neglected parks. But he can't do anything to change the fact that Detroit is a city no longer capable of supporting itself.
DETROIT
What Detroit Should Learn From NYC's Near-Bankruptcy
By Eric Peterson, Contributor
Brooklyn-based writer and designer
Is Detroit in 2013 the New York City of 1975? It could be too ridiculous a question to ask. While the differences are many -- a difference in population of several million is the most glaring -- there are several key commonalities.
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