By Mark | January 14, 2013 Tomorrow evening, at Ypsilanti’s Corner Brewery, celebrated Detroit journalist Jack Lessenberry will be hosting a panel discussion on Michigan’s newly passed anti-union (“right-to-work”) legislation, and how it will likely impact working Michiganders, their employers, and the financial prospects of the state. There’s scant information available online, but a friend who works for Michigan Radio tells [...]
Posted in Media, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Center for Automotive Research, Corner brewery, Daniel Howes, F. Vincent Vernuccio, Jack Lessenberry, Kristin Dziczek, labor history, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Matt Greff, Proposition 2, Rene Greff, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, union busting, unions | As you no doubt know, President Obama and congressional leaders were able to avert a government shutdown by reaching an agreement on the 2011 budget late Friday night. While we don’t yet know all the facts, it looks as though the Republicans were not successful in their attempts to defund public broadcasting, and stop the [...]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics | Also tagged Amy Goodman, budget cuts, budget deficit, Bush tax cuts, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Democracy Now, entitlements, EPA, estate tax, global climate change, greenhouse gas, Jeffrey Sachs, lobbyists, Medicaid, Medicare, military spending, Millennium Promise Alliance, Obama, Paul Ryan, PBS, People’s Budget, public broadcasting, social security, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich | I’m up late reading the news, and there are three things I wanted to pass along, in hopes that they might keep you awake as well. 1) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, while proposing deep pay cuts for employees of local government, “is using state funds to pay more than $81,500 a year to the 26-year-old [...]
By now you’ve no doubt heard that House Republicans voted to strip federal funding from National Public Radio. The bill, which was rushed through before the scheduled House recess, passed 228 to 192, with only seven Republicans voting against it. If passed by the Senate, the bill would keep an estimated $90 million from NPR. [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Weiner, corporate media, FOX News, fundamentalist religion, guns, Ira Glass, James O'Keefe, John Boehner, Joyce Slocum, Juan WIlliams, library privatization, Libya, media consolidation, mochery, Muammar Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, National Public Radio, racism, reality deficient, Ron Schiller, sarcasm, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the future of journalism, the sad state of journalism, tomahawk missiles, Vivian Schiller, xenophobia | By Mark | February 22, 2011 As you know, the Republicans, using the excuse of the federal deficit, are suggesting that we defund PBS and NPR. Like me, you’ve probably signed petitions and written to your elected officials, telling them how much you value Sesame Street and Frontline in a world run rampant with the likes of Justin Bieber and Glenn [...]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Media, Michigan | Also tagged Arwulf, Justin Bieber, local NPR celebrities, Miley Cyrus, PBS, public broadcasting, Sesame Street, The Sunday Best, WEMU | 
