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UAW Prez Bob King Tells Dem Members: Stay Away From the Michigan Republican Primary

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 27, 2012 1

by P.D. Lesko A2Politico political writer Joe DiSano is getting behind Operation Hilarity. He posted a piece at the Huffington Post Detroit channel that has a rousing debate going between those who think DiSano is suggesting something…

Daily Kos Owner Tells NY Times Those Who Object to Manipulation of Michigan Presidential Primary Are “Pearl Clutchers”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 20, 2012 0

By P.D. Lesko Operation Hilarity may not be quite so funny to Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Moulitsas Zuniga owns the liberal blog Daily Kos which has over 300,000 registered users and serves up 2,000,000 pages per month. Moulitsas Zuniga…

New Study: Michigan’s High-Income, White Students “Sinking in Academic Achievement”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 10, 2012 2

by P.D. Lesko In Ann Arbor, it's the achievement gap that gets the starring role in the ongoing drama enacted on a regular basis by both members of the Board of Education, as well as the District's paid professionals. This is a drama that…

Interview: A Young, Black Detroiter Is Set To Derail the ALEC-Inspired Agenda of Michigan’s Millionaire Governor

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 9, 2012 1

BRANDON JESSUP IS young, black and lives in Detroit. Newspapers and magazines all around the country that trumpet bad news generated by statistical analyses and studies about the city will tell you that Brandon Jessup should be unemployed,…

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300 Michigan Science Faculty, Collectively Paid $45M/Year, Sign Letter Protesting Union For Their Grad Assistants

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 3, 2012 21

by P.D. Lesko The bumper sticker is a classic one: If you're against abortion, don't have one. Limiting the rights of others is often mistaken for standing on principle. The University of Michigan graduate student research assistants…

Michigan Backs Financial Scheme of Convicted Felon & Now Taxpayers on the Hook for $18 Million

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 2, 2012 18

by P.D. Lesko Guess what you can get in Michigan for a $10,000 donation to Rick Snyder's campaign? You can get $18,000,000 in state money to bail you out when your project crashes and burns just 10 months after it's launched. You can also…

Higher Ed Experts Call President Obama’s ‘College Affordability’ Speech at U of M “political theater of the worst sort”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 30, 2012 1

by P.D. Lesko President Obama came to Ann Arbor to tell the country that federal aid to colleges should be tied to tuition costs. Federal aid to students would remain untouched, and a cranky Congress would have to pass the President's…

Republicans in the Michigan Legislature Wildly Exaggerating Savings From Same-Sex Benefits Cuts

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Dec 19, 2011 0

by P.D. Lesko Michigan Republicans want to see House Bill 4770 and House Bill 4771 signed ito law by Governor Rick Snyder. The bills would prohibit public employers from including domestic partner benefits in their public employee…

A Local Political Machine Gets Sabotaged From Within — Again

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Dec 19, 2011 3

by P.D. Lesko How many direct hits from within can the Hieftje-Hive-Mind-Collective Cube withstand? In summer 2009, the Cube took its first hit from within: Ann Arbor residents woke up to a front page piece in the Ann Arbor News that was…

Savaged: Michigan Supreme Court Quietly Affirms Access to Courts Is Based On Ability To Pay

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Dec 8, 2011 4

By Chris Savage In late November of this year, the Michigan Supreme Court issued a tersely worded order (pdf) that said simply this: On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the July 19, 2011 judgment of the Court of…

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