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Wednesday briefing and open threadWednesday briefing and open thread

Happy Wednesday! Hail to the Victors. Ann Arbor makes the "most well-read cities" list: Ann Arbor has a lot of bookworms, according to a new list by Amazon.com. The online company on Tuesday released its annual list of 20 of the "Most Well-Read Cities in America," and Ann Arbor has… »

Effort to recall Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder faces opposition – FROM THE LEFTEffort to recall Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder faces opposition – FROM THE LEFT

With friends like these... The group working to recall Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Michigan Rising missed a campaign finance report deadline by a few days this month. Though this isn't entirely uncommon given the unnecessarily complex and cumbersome reporting methods they use, it was still a… »

Teacher Job Satisfaction Suffering as New TV Attack Ads Set to AirTeacher Job Satisfaction Suffering as New TV Attack Ads Set to Air

According to a study by Metlife, as reported on in The Nation, job satisfaction is dropping amongst teachers.  Only 44 percent of teachers described themselves as “very satisfied,” and almost a third of teachers are considering leaving the profession.  This news comes as the conservative… »

Tuesday briefing and open threadTuesday briefing and open thread

Tuesdays are just plain sexy, aren't they? Let's start with some Great Lakes. First, here's the Hoekstra trying to trade our lakes for some oil: From the MDP release: “Even most Republicans have supported the ban on drilling in the Lakes because they recognize that a disaster… »

Tell Hoekstra and Romney NO on November 6Tell Hoekstra and Romney NO on November 6

As you know, the 2012 elections are less than six months from now and the stakes are higher than ever. Whoever wins this election will determine whether our nation will continue to move to a new tune or rewind the same old song. We want leaders who can relate to and implement measures that will… »

The Return of EAGTruth.comThe Return of EAGTruth.com

As many of you know, Kyle Olson has operated out of Michigan for 8 years now, working for secret funders to demonize public school unions. For years he focused on the MEA, but he has since gone national, parading as a school reformer in order to play the press and blame school employees for every… »

Monday briefing and open threadMonday briefing and open thread

Yes! I love Mondays! Let's brief! Julie Mack has an interesting observation on marriage equality: The fact is, it's hard to fashion a convincing case that gay marriage undermines American values or hurts society. If you accept the idea that homosexuality is a biological trait… »

Snyder to consider deregulation of 18 industriesSnyder to consider deregulation of 18 industries

I've chatted a little about the proposal to eliminate state licensing for certain professions. See here, here, and kinda here. Here's a little closer look at the subject. Let's start with how it started. The Michigan Office of Regulatory Reinvention (ORR) put together an advisory board of 14… »

Welcome

Special Veterans Event + The People’s News 6/27

posted this on June 27th, 2011.

Happy Monday, Michigan! It's a beautiful day, but unfortunately we can't say the same thing for what's brewing inside of our State Capitol.

While politicians continue pass legislation hurting our working men and women, including our veterans, tomorrow we'll be honoring Michigan's veterans in a special event with Army veteran and Congressman John Dingell at UAW 723 (281 Detroit Ave, Monroe) at 5:30pm and we hope you'll join us as we fight the attacks. You can learn more about this event and others in your area by texting MI to 225568.

 

In the meantime, here are today’s top news stories…

 

AP: House Dems to call on GOP to restore K-12 funds

House Democ­rats are call­ing on Michi­gan Gov. Rick Sny­der and GOP law­mak­ers to restore money cut from pub­lic [...]

June 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Articles, Events, Featured Articles, Governor, Organizations, snyder | One comment

Senator Gretchen Whitmer Challenges Republicans on School Cuts Vote

posted this on May 19th, 2011.

Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer stands up for our schools and challenges her Republican colleagues to stand with her.

May 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Articles, Budgets & Economy, Featured Articles, Senate Dems, Senate GOP, snyder | Leave a comment

House passes continuation budget

posted this on September 30th, 2007.

The House has unanimously passed the continuation budget.  Let's see what happens next.

UPDATE (by WK):From the AP-

 

The state House on Sunday night overwhelmingly passed a temporary budget extension that could allow the state to avoid a partial government shutdown that otherwise would hit shortly after midnight.

The budget extension was tied to a bill placing the state's 6 percent sales tax on a wide range of services, which the House had just passed, and to a bill raising the income tax, which had not yet come up Sunday for consideration by the House or Senate.

The Senate already has passed the bill extending the current budget 30 days, but it had yet to vote on the sales tax.

No Republicans voted for the bill placing the sales tax on services; all Democrats did, except for Marc Corriveau of Northville and Kate Ebli of Monroe, who voted no.

There were no votes against the two bills placing the budget extension in place.

From the comments- DJ had a great point. The Republicans, by voting for the extension that was tie-barred to a tax increase, in effect voted for the tax increase. All of them.

Ya gotta laugh at that one.

<hr>Comments<hr>

*[new] If it passed unamimously…

Does that mean that in the most technical of terms, everyone in the House voted for a tax increase?

A voice in my head tells me not to be so mean to the conservatives.  I work very hard to ignore that voice.

by: djtyg @ Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 18:59:12 PM EDT [ Reply | ]  

Heh.

Yes.

I love it- good thinking.

by: wizardkitten @ Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 19:02:08 PM EDT [ Parent | Reply | ]  

Unless 

It was the Senate's version which didn't have the increase.

Have to clarify that.

by: wizardkitten @ Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 19:03:23 PM EDT [ Parent | Reply | ]  

And we have clarification 

SB 772 dealing general budget items, , passed 107-0 and SB 773, extending the school aid budget, passed 109-0.  Both bills are [...]

September 30th, 2007 | Tags: , | Category: Budgets & Economy, House Dems, House GOP | Leave a comment
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