Strike spotlights fast-food wages
On May 10, some of the lowest-paid, least-respected workers in Metro Detroit stood up for themselves by going on strike.
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Medicaid: Michigan House Republicans go off the rails
The House GOP plan is a deliberately unrealistic ploy, which could be fairly characterized as governing by press release.
Democracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Voters
Mark Sanford is baaaack. Such is democracy. Candidates are exposed, warts and all, and then the people choose.
Wasted Michigan food a lesson in Big Government
What the government sells to schools – and what it wants schools to feed children – are not the same thing. Hence, unused food and wasted money.
GOP roads plan: Tax Michigan-made hybrids?
A special tax on a special category of cars is exactly that – government picking losers by discouraging people from buying those cars.
Media misquote State Superintendent Flanagan
I was at the Governor’s Summit. I scratched my head because I knew that wasn’t what Flanagan had meant-or even said.
The deadly helmet law repeal
A U-M researcher estimates there would have been 26 fewer deaths and 49 fewer serious injuries in Michigan last year if all riders had worn helmets.
No drumbeat for gun control in Michigan
Michigan, like most of the country, isn’t buying the left-wing line that more gun control will equal less crime.
Drug tests for welfare recipients: A solution in search of a problem
Michigan Republicans are playing the culture war card again with the idea of drug-testing welfare recipients.
Today is CISPA Blackout Day
Today, April 22, we will have a CISPA blackout to protest the proposed cybersecurity law.