I know that all anyone wants to talk about these days is our story about the elaborate “fuck Flint I want to go shopping”-themed cake Governor Snyder had made for his wife’s birthday, which has now spread to the likes of Gawker and Wonkette, but, for my own sanity, I’ve got to move on. So, […]
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Jeff Irwin on renewed movement in the Michigan House to kill Snyder’s Emergency Manager law, Ethan Lowenstein on the value of place-based education, and the witchy music of Spelling… on episode 38 of the Saturday Six Pack
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Education, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized Also tagged Aaron Spelling, bellows, belonging, brushes with panty fame, casting spells, checks and balances, community, Craig Johnson, Detroit, dioxane, disinvestment, drone instruments, EAA, Eastern Michigan University, Education Achievement Authority, education reform, education theory, Educational Achievement Authority, Emergency Manager, EMU, Ethan Lowenstein, Flint, Flint water crisis, Gawker, Gelman plume, Gelman Sciences, globalization, guns in schools, Happiness, Jeff Irwin, Johnny Lupinacci, lead, lead poisoning, Medicare, Name Brand Tattoo, open carry, Patrick Elkins, place-based education, pollution, public education, racism, Rick Snyder, SEMIS Coalition, shruti box, Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition, spelling, threats to public education, Victoria Weeber, water, white flight, witchy, Wonkette 11 Comments
Investing in America, and other ideas to put the country back on the right track
I’m a sucker for a new Robert Reich video. I can’t help but post them. Tonight’s comes by way of a letter that I just received from Van Jones, announcing the launch of his Contract for the American Dream initiative. (This, as you’ll recall from our last discussion on Van Jones, is part of the […]
What it’s really like in Michigan’s prisons
Last night, I reprinted a letter sent by a Michigan school Superintendent to our Governor, asking that his school be converted over to a prison. Given that we fund corrections better than we do education in this state, he argued that it would be in the best interests of his students. He was clearly attempting […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged American Friends Service Committee, Baldwin, corrections, Department of Corrections, drugs, minimum required sentence, Natalie Holbrook, prison industrial complex, prison reform, prison sentences, prisoner advocate, Quakers, war on drugs 45 Comments