Katie Carey on how a bill becomes a law, lowering the barriers to civic engagement, Snyder thinks pension tax is fair, and oil flows through the Grand River

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Today we talk to Katie Carey about how a bill becomes a law, then I discuss the purpose of the podcast and what it means to lower the barriers to civic engagement. Then we’ve got a couple of headlines and our normal 5 Minute Activism. Stephanie Miller and the mooks join us after the stinger [...]

Wacky gun nullification in Judiciary Committee

Unfortunately, the Michigan Legislature will be back on their regular session schedule on Wednesday after just meeting once for the State of State address, but it appears 2013 will be more of the same partisan grandstanding by extremist right-wingers. Just a week after it was introduced,  the Senate judiciary Committee will be meeting at the [...]