A few years ago, I interviewed an author here by the name of Ted McClelland, a former Michigander who, as you might recall, had stirred up a little bit of a shit storm after referring to our home state as “Michissippi” in an article on Salon.com about our passage of so-called right-to-work legislation. “Michigan,” said […]
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The Porking of Michigan: We were promised high-tech jobs. Instead, we were given a pork processing plant.
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged cheap labor, Clemens Food Group, Coldwater, Community Development Block Grant, Doug Clemens, food processing, gut snatcher, hogs, lame duck, meat packing, meat production, MEDC, Michigan Strategic Fund, Pennsylvania, pigs, pork, pork processing, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, slaughter, Ted McClelland 23 Comments
Why would any intelligent young women stay in a state that requires the purchase of rape insurance?
Remember that “rape insurance” legislation that we talked about in December? Well, as of tomorrow, it becomes law in Michigan. I can see the appeal for the twisted old men on the far right who conspired to bring this about, as they’ve long been looking for opportunities to chip away at Roe v. Wade, and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Health, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged abortion, abortion rider, Biblical law, Clementine, health care, health insurance, Mississippi, religious fundamentalism, Roe v. Wade 54 Comments
Reinventing Michigan so as to accelerate the Michigan exodus
Brian Dickerson has a good piece in the Detroit Free Press today on the Republican agenda in Michigan and how it could be driving young, educated workers from our state. It’s essentially a continuation of the much-talked-about “Michissippi” article by Edward McClelland that ran in Salon last week. In that piece, as you’ll recall, McClelland […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics Also tagged brain drain, Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press, Edward McClelland, Rick Snyder, right-to-work 26 Comments