Deliverance: 411 on the 313—Charter Schools, Political Payback & Union Busting
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by Warren Liverance Of late, our legislature and
03:02 pm | by Chris Savage With the Occupy movement now in its third month and Republicans seeing pushback at the polls during the election in early November, grassroots organizing around the “We are the 99%”…
Nov 18 2011 / 6 Comments / Read More »
09:00 am | By Chris Savage It’s hard to view any sort of media at all these days without finding reference to the Occupy Wall Street movement. With its made-for-viral-media meme “We are the 99%”, this…
Nov 4 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »
06:00 am | by Betsy McMillin Eleven and eight years ago, my two oldest kids had the great fortune of attending Stone School Co-op Preschool. The teacher of the 4s class was Annie Zipser. I knew…
Oct 2 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »
09:17 am | by Chris Savage Last week, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and her husband Dan Mulhern released their new book A Governor’s Story – The Fight for Jobs and America’s Economic Future. (You can…
Sep 29 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »
11:51 pm | by P.D. Lesko “I just hope everyone who’s asked to sign a petition gets all the information about the condition of the spaces we’re trying to replace and the cost of not doing…
Sep 21 2011 / 7 Comments / Read More »
03:46 pm | A2PNotes: This is filed under “Scoops & Scores” because you read it here first by P.D. Lesko Collectively, Ann Arbor residents own about 2,000 acres of parkland. A conservative estimate of the value…
Sep 13 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »12:10 pm | by P.D. Lesko Michigan has bled jobs, and the state’s residents have suffered Depression-era unemployment levels. The Detroit Free…
Jan 10 2012 / 5 Comments / Read More »01:53 pm | by P.D. Lesko The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working at…
Nov 16 2011 / No Comment / Read More »10:09 am | by P.D. Lesko Oddly enough, one of the five upcoming City Council elections—Ward 2—could have a major impact on…
Oct 31 2011 / 3 Comments / Read More »06:00 am | by P.D. Lesko Livingston County has a population of about 180,000, less than half the number of residents of…
Oct 29 2011 / No Comment / Read More »08:08 am | by Chris Savage In 2008, Democratic state Senate Minority Leader Mark Schauer was elected to be the Representative for…
Oct 5 2011 / 10 Comments / Read More »Interview: WCAT Is Looking To Hold Lansing Politicos Accountable
Savaged: Brad Langerak Gives the 99% in Michigan A Digital Soapbox
The Parent Trap: An Interview With Annie Zipser—Mother to Hundreds
EXCLUSIVE Interview: Former Governor Jennifer Granholm Talks About the Political and Economic Past & Future of Michigan and the U.S.
Interview: Michigan Municipal League Director Dan Gilmartin—Rising Above Politics to Save Michigan
Interview: @LOLGOP—Skewering Republican Insanity Oh So “Nicely”
Interview: Second Ward Council Candidate Tim Hull Is Focused, Bright and Couldn’t Disagree More With Incumbent Stephen Rapundalo About, Well, Most Everything
Interview: Daily Kos Wants Governor Rick Snyder Recalled. The Effort Is Poised To Change The Face of U.S. Politics.
Interview: The Very Popular, Gregarious, Fiscally Responsible Thorn in the Mayor’s Side—Mike Anglin
Interview: Will Michigan Voters Fire Rick Snyder? FireRickSnyder Organizers Talk to A2Politico.
06:00 am | by Nick Leshi Entertainment Weekly had a cool little article about movies that were produced full of potential to become huge franchises, but plans for sequels fizzled with their miniscule box-office performance. It lists Dune, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Eragon, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Green Lantern, Godzilla, The Golden Compass, etc. My rambling mind started thinking about movies…
Jan 16 2012 / No Comment / Read More »06:00 am | by Sophia van Buren For the past eight years, I’ve adopted and grown into both the idea and reality of being a role reversal model of the mother as the non-custodial parent, but if current trends continue, the percentage of non-custodial parents will shrink. That is because recent trends indicate that more progressive state laws are…
Jan 15 2012 / No Comment / Read More »06:00 am | by Erika McNamara Detroit organizations that assist the homeless in the city report that the number of homeless individuals is on the increase and the shelters are at over capacity. The number of people requiring assistance this year is estimated to be way over the 22,000 plus people that were homeless last year in Detroit.…
Jan 6 2012 / 13 Comments / Read More »06:00 am | Throughout the month of December, readers voted to choose the A2Politico.com Whopper of the Year Award winner. Last year, A2Politico.com gave the 2010 Whopper of the Year to former City Administrator Roger Fraser. For 24 months, Fraser fibbed to Ann Arbor residents through the media and at public City Council meetings, that “property tax revenues are down.” This non-existent…
Jan 2 2012 / 5 Comments / Read More »02:31 pm | by P.D. Lesko On The Atlantic’s web site, writer Micki Maynard quotes David Askins of The AnnArborChronicle.com explaining how the pedestrian crosswalk ordinance mess has gotten so out of hand. Askins,…
Dec 2 2011 / 7 Comments / Read More »
11:51 pm | by P.D. Lesko “I just hope everyone who’s asked to sign a petition gets all the information about the condition of the…
Sep 21 2011 / 7 Comments / Read More »
05:14 pm | Documents released by Ann Arbor city officials in response to a recent FOIA request revealed that the March 31, 2011 meeting to…
Aug 10 2011 / 5 Comments / Read More »
04:20 pm | by Pete Nicely Herbert Hoover once said, “Nothing is more important than balancing the budget.” As he was saying this, Governor Franklin…
Jan 18 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »
11:59 am | by Chris Savage I have been following and writing about Public Act 4, the Emergency Manager law, since it was passed in…
Jan 11 2012 / 7 Comments / Read More »09:04 am | by Chris Savage Michigan Rising, the group formerly known as the Committee to Recall Rick Snyder (CRRS), was unsuccessful in its bid to recall Michigan’s governor last year. The challenges…
Jan 19 2012 / 5 Comments / Read More »