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Randy Richardville

GOP Bill Could Invalidate Petition Drive to Raise State’s Minimum Wage

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 16, 2014 0

SENATE MAJORITY leader Randy Richardville introduced a bill last week, about three weeks before the deadline for backers of the higher wage hike to file signatures to put their initiated law before the GOP-led Legislature. Assuming…

Someone’s Not Feeling the Love: City Council Colleagues Donate Zip, Zero, Nada to This Incumbent

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 27, 2012 3

by P.D. Lesko Tony D.'s campaign finance forms turned in on time to the Washtenaw County Clerk's office show that he has raised $8,475 to finance his effort to defeat challenger Sally Hart Petersen. Interestingly, Derezinski reported…

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Local News Site Snaps Incumbent’s Political Tighty Whities With Debate Coverage

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jul 22, 2012 3

The AnnArborChronicle.com recently called out AnnArbor.com politics reporter Ryan Stanton for accepting an AP reporting award for a news piece that misinterpreted available data. In the same piece, the news blog also called out former…

Michigan House Republicans Pass Bill That Strips Grad. Students of Right to Unionize

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 1, 2012 1

Governor Rick Snyder has repeatedly claimed he has no interest in starting a Right-To-Work war in Michigan. Whether he has been telling the truth may become very clear, very soon. The Michigan House quickly approved SB 0971, legislation…

Representative John Dingell: “The 1964 Civil Rights Act Couldn’t Pass In Today’s Congress.”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Feb 17, 2012 0

by P.D. Lesko Congressman John D. Dingell, Jr. is 17 months away from breaking the late Congressman Robert Byrd’s record for total combined congressional service in the House and Senate. Dingell has been in the U.S. House since 1955, when…

Michigan GOP Legislators Move To Make Recalls Much More Difficult

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Dec 2, 2011 0

by P.D. Lesko According to a December 1, 2011 piece in The Chicago Tribune, "Less than a month after the rare recall of a state lawmaker, Republican leaders in the Michigan Senate proposed a constitutional amendment to limit the reasons…

Savaged: GOP Leaders Teach That Educators Are Costly Parasites. Are Americans Really Uneducated Enough To Believe It?

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Sep 14, 2011 15

by Chris Savage To say that Republicans are on a mission to destroy unions in this country is not an understatement. Across the country, and particularly in the Midwest, newly-elected Republican legislators and governors have spent the…