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State Representative Jeff Irwin on the “frightened patriots” of the open carry movement, forest ecologist Ben Connor Barrie on local trees he’d love to kill, and Matt Siegfried on the racism of Rosie the Riveter… on episode 9 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | March 16, 2015

This is Michigan State Rep Jeff Irwin, my first guest on this past weekend’s episode of The Saturday Six Pack. Our interview, which started off with a weighty conversation on corporate money, gerrymandering, and tax policy, and how, together, they’ve nearly destroyed our state, ended on a significantly lighter note when a caller by the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ALEC, Benjamin Franklin, body cameras, Brigid Mooney, charter schools, Chris Sandon, corporate money, crawlspaces, daylight saving time, dismantling of public education, Earned Income Tax Credit, for-profit charter schools, frightened patriot, gas tax, gerrymandering, guns, guns in schools, HP Jacobs, infrastructure, Jeff Irwin, Jim Cherewick, Jordan Miller, Lansing, Local's American Lager, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan sales tax, Michigan's roads, open carry, parole, Pete Larson, Proposition 1, ribbing, Rick Snyder, rimming, Rosie the Riveter, school funding, sentencing reform, sexual sickness, Shorts Brewing, Steve Irwin, tax policy, tea party, threats to public education, war on drugs, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Wurst Bar | 20 Comments

Calling what happened during Michigan’s lame duck session “very, very bad,” former State Senator Joe Schwartz blames term limits and the unprecedented influence of corporate money

By Mark | January 22, 2013

As we recently discussed, Michigan Radio, as part of their Issues & Ale series, hosted a panel discussion in Ypsilanti late last week on the subject of Michigan’s newly passed right-to-work legislation. The panel, which included former Republican State Senator Joe Schwartz, Kristin Dziczek, the Director of the Labor & Industry Group at the Center […]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ave Maria, Ave Maria graduates, Center for Automotive Research, collective bargaining, Community Capital Forum, Corner brewery, corporate takeover of politics, F. Vincent Vernuccio, get the money out of Washington, Gretchen Driskell, Issues & Ale, Jack Lessenberry, Koch brothers, Kristin Dziczek, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, MEDC, Michael Shuman, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Radio, Michigan Senate, Mike Finney, money in politics, partisan politics, Proposition 2, Pure Michigan, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, tea party, Tom Monaghan, union busting, unions | 28 Comments

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