| Apr 6, 2016 | Environment / HealthThe horrible, preventable crisis in Flint, Michigan shows that when the government shortchanges our infrastructure, people pay the price. Flint has become a living hell for its residents. The water is brown, poisoned with lead, and too corrosive to use on skin or...
| Feb 4, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyOne big difference between the rich and the poor in our country is that the rich don’t tend to have their drinking water poisoned by their own governor. Not that Republican Governor Rick Snyder personally dumped poison into Flint, Michigan’s water. But by...
| Dec 19, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyMichigan is no longer a state. It is now “Michiganistan,” an autocratic czardom in the hands of Emperor Rick Snyder. Formerly the Republican governor, Snyder has been enthroned by the GOP’s lame-duck, legislative supermajority to rule with an iron...
| Dec 18, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAbout half of the nation’s states are now enforcing corporate servitude measures like the “right-to-work” bill that Michigan’s lame-duck legislature and conservative governor just rushed into law. These misleadingly named laws make it harder,...
| Sep 5, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIf Rick Snyder ever comes to help you, run away as fast and as far as you can. Snyder is the right-wing, corporation-hugging governor of Michigan. The Mackinac Center, a front group bankrolled by the radical Koch Brothers, handed him an extremist anti-worker,...
