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, Michissippi, Pennsylvania, pigs, pork processing, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, slaughter, Ted McClelland 23 Comments
Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities
One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]
Posted in Agriculture, Economics Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, commoditization, Cuba, deregulation, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, economic crash, financial industry, financial reform, food crisis, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, Richard Levins, Science For the People, scientists, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street 14 Comments
Do yo think “Life Begins at Rape” bumper stickers would sell at the RNC?
People are up in arms this evening over something that vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said recently, when asked to comment on his fellow Republican Todd Akin’s statements concerning “legitimate rape”. (As you’ll recall, Akin, who is running for Senate, had said that “real” rapes don’t result in pregnancy, implying that women who claim to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged abortion, allegations of rape, bumper stickers, conception, conception begins at rape, legitimate rape, life begins at rape, Mark's big ideas, marketing, Paul Ryan, people interviewed in closets, Presidential politics, rape, reproductive justice, RNC, Todd Akin, women's rights 17 Comments