BREAKING: Chris Christie appoints "Detroit-style" Emergency Manager for...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.Back in November, I wrote about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie considering the possibility of appointing an Emergency Manager for Atlantic City which has faced a...
View ArticleAllen Park, MI, where “City Admin.”, “Emergency Mgr”, &“Dictator” all mean...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.This past week, the City Council of Allen Park voted to fire their City Administrator Karen Folks. Why? Because she has essentially made herself the dictator of the...
View ArticleUPDATED Chicago Mayor Live Blog: We Haz Runoff!
UPDATE: Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has forced incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel into a runoff election on April 7.With 1,732 of Chicago’s 2,069 precincts reporting (83.7 percent), the...
View ArticleWe still have the power to change everything.
Well, the verdict is in. The DNC officially recognizes the need for aggressive state and local organizing and action. Of course, for those who have been paying attention, this is not a shock. But it's...
View ArticleSatanic Temple of Detroit demands groups who discriminate on religious...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.Amy has been doing a terrific job of letting the world know how regressive our state is becoming with regard to the use of religious beliefs to deny health care,...
View ArticleAnti-trans* woman uses Michigan civil rights act to sue Planet Fitness for...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.Earlier this month I wrote about a woman in Midland who had her Planet Fitness membership cancelled because she spent her days in their gym warning anyone who would...
View ArticleMichigan AG: We must continue to ban marriage equality to protect the dignity...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.Michigan's Bigot-in-Chief, Attorney General Bill Schuette, has put forth some pretty remarkable excuses for his crusade to ensure that same-sex couples cannot marry or...
View ArticleGoFundMe: Michigan couple seeks to prove that pizza lovers support marriage...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.When the owner of Memories Pizza in Indiana recently told reporters that she would refuse to bake pies for wedding receptions if the couple were gay or lesbian, the...
View ArticleDERP ALERT: Michigan bigots now trying to out-bigot each other
Originally posted at Eclectablog.After the owner of Indiana pizzeria Memories publicly declared she wouldn't make her pies for same-sex weddings, she raked in well over $800,000 from a GoFundMe.com...
View ArticleMichigan AG Schuette's hired gun paid $50K to tell SCOTUS gay marriage...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.com.There is a great deal of speculation on how the Supreme Court will decide the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that will likely decide once and for all...
View ArticleMichigan GOP moves to strip power of local governments to protect workers and...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.com.Republicans have successfully branded themselves as the party that worships "local governmental control". They want federal regulations repealed and the power given...
View ArticleFinally, A Way to Recapture Our Government From Special Interests: The...
Do you remember when giving money to elected officials to get laws you want was called "bribery" or "corruption" instead of "government as usual".Do you feel like the opportunity playing field is...
View ArticleCivil Rights Icon Dr. Fergie Reid deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom !
Dr. Fergie Reid from Virginia was the first black person to serve in the Virginia state assembly after reconstruction. The times were hard and Dr. Reid was already active and a hero in his own right...
View ArticleAnother attack on Michigan workers: Republicans move to slash minimum wage...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.In their neverending quest to screw over workers to benefit employers, Republicans in Michigan are now turning their attention to those making minimum wage. A bill that...
View ArticleSo we did this thing where we filed a Title VI complaint to stop Rick Synder
It's been a couple of decades of Republican fuckery in Michigan education, and specifically in Detroit. Well, we got sick of it and worked together with the Detroit School Board to file a Title VI...
View ArticleRural Oregon for Bernie: Meet Up! [update with RSVP link]
Like userexists, I am going out of town but wanted to post what we are doing in our neck of the woods. We formed a small action team at the first Meet Up I attended in an adjacent small town. I live...
View ArticleDon't Mourn Our Democracy, Organize!
Everyone reading this knows something is rotten in the States of America.Our representatives don't listen to their constituents anymore; they listen to their wealthy donors. This is because...
View ArticleProof emerges that Michigan AG wields FOIA fees like a weapon against...
Originally posted at Eclectablog.com.Bombshell news coming via Progress Michigan this morning detailing how Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is using fees for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's Campaign Sharing Data/Funds with State Parties
Just got off of Robby Mook's conference call for Hillary Clinton volunteers, and he mentioned in passing that all of the voter data that the campaign is collecting for Clinton is being shared with...
View ArticleWA-03 Campaign update, Oct Fundraiser & Action for Volunteers!
For anyone who doesn't know me, I spent (as of the 15th of this month) the past 12 years writing here under my old User ID of Angie in WA State until June 20th of this year, when I posted this last...
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