Mark Maynard

A now-profitable General Motors, having been bailed out by the people of Michigan, repays them with massive layoffs and the shuttering of facilities in Hamtramck and Warren

By Mark | November 26, 2018

Back in 2016, while on the campaign trail, Donald Trump made the following promise to Michigan’s automotive workers. “If I’m elected, you won’t lose one plant, you’ll have plants coming into this country, you’re going to have jobs again, you won’t lose one plant, I promise you that,” he said. Well, General Motors announced today […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alternative Energy, automotive bailout, autonomous vehicles, bailout, Baltimore, beyond fossil fuel, cheap labor, Chevy Volt, China, Detroit, Donald Trump, electric vehicles, factories, General Motors, global climate change, GM, greed, Hamtramck, Lordstown, manufacturing, Mary Barra, Mexico, mobility, offshore manufacturing, Ohio, outsourcing, Sherrod Brown, SUVs, tax cuts, Terry Dittes, Warren | 27 Comments

Black student demands at EMU, the truth about Rosie the Riveter, an inside look at the Paris climate talks, and a painfully honest critique of the new Monkey Power Trio record… on this weekend’s edition of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | December 3, 2015

After two weeks off to focus on the consumption of turkey, mashed potatoes and jello salad, we’re back in the AM 1700 studio this Saturday evening at 6:00 to talk about everything from the recent demands made by representatives of EMU’s black student body, to the climate talks currently taking place in Paris. If you’re […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Monkey Power Trio, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged A Vast Machine: Computer Models, and the Politics of Global Warming, black lives matter, Climate Change, Climate Data, Darius Simpson, Daryl Holman, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, Ethan Wampler, Ford, Global Warming, Henry Ford, Jim Stehlin, Matt Siegfried, Michigan Climate March, Paris, Paul Edwards, race riots, racism, Ricky Rood, Rosie the Riveter, The Black Student 10-Point Plan, Tim Wolfe, Willow Run, Willow Run Bomber Plant | 25 Comments

Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer, without the support of the UAW, faces attacks from within… What’s next?

By Mark | February 2, 2013

According to a report on MLive, Michigan Republicans are demanding that the investigation into Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer’s involvement in a 2010 plot to split the conservative vote in Metro Detroit by running fake Tea Party candidates against establishment Republicans, be reopened. Here’s a clip: …Bobby Schostak, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Bob King, Bobby Schostak, Bruce Rendon, Eclectablog, Jack Lessenberry, James Hoffa, Jeff Irwin, Jennifer Granholm, Jessica Cooper, Kalkaska, lame duck, Lon Johnson, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Mark Brewer, Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Republican Party, Mike McGuinness, right-to-work, Sander Levin, tea party, Teamsters, union busting, unions, United Auto Workers | 32 Comments

Ted McClelland on fleeing “Michissippi” and why we’ll never be able to keep our brightest young people from Chicago

By Mark | December 24, 2012

Here on the site last week, I twice invoked an article that had appeared on Salon.con entitled Right-to-work bill: Michigan just gives up. Well, the second time I did so, the author of the piece, Ted McClelland, left a comment. And, from there, a short email exchange ensued, resulting in the following interview. I hope […]

Posted in Michigan, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged American Railway Union, Amway, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland, brain drain, Brian Dickerson, Caught in the Middle, Chicago, Edward McClelland, exit interviews, fiscal cliff, globalization, Grand Rapids, Hard Times, interviews, Lansing, MEDC, Michael Finney, Michigan Democratic Party, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Michigan State, Michissippi, Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation, Niowave, Nothin' But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Obama, Renaissance Center, Richard C. Longworth, Richard Marx, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Salon, Ted McClelland, United Auto Workers, University of Michigan, Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President | 26 Comments

Coup d’etat in Michigan… following the money, connecting the dots, and assessing Snyder’s role

By Mark | December 12, 2012

This afternoon, as over 10,000 protesters surrounded the Capitol building in Lansing, Governor Snyder singed into law legislation that would make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state. When asked why it was so urgent that this be done now, during the lame duck session, outside of the accepted procedural process, Snyder essentially blamed the unions, who, […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Americans for Prosperity, Cindy Estrada, collective bargaining, corporatocracy, Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation, Dick DeVos, Emergency Manager, Flint Sit-Down Strike, Frank Keating, John Engler, Koch brothers, labor history, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Paul Singer, Proposal 2, Proposition 2, Rick Snyder, right-to-work, Ron Weiser, tea party, unions, West Michigan Policy Forum | 39 Comments

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A now-profitable General Motors, having been bailed out by the people of Michigan, repays them with massive layoffs and the shuttering of facilities in Hamtramck and Warren

Black student demands at EMU, the truth about Rosie the Riveter, an inside look at the Paris climate talks, and a painfully honest critique of the new Monkey Power Trio record… on this weekend’s edition of The Saturday Six Pack

Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer, without the support of the UAW, faces attacks from within… What’s next?

Ted McClelland on fleeing “Michissippi” and why we’ll never be able to keep our brightest young people from Chicago

Coup d’etat in Michigan… following the money, connecting the dots, and assessing Snyder’s role

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