Mark Maynard | Warren

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, UAW | 27 Comments

Secretary of Education pick Betsy DeVos caught on tape, talking about defunding public education in order to “advance God’s kingdom”

By Mark | January 16, 2017

With the Senate confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, set to begin tomorrow, the folks at Politico just released a 2001 recording in which the Amway billionaire explains that her work to defund public education has been done in order to “advance God’s kingdom.” Her comments, according to Politico, were […]

Posted in Education, Politics, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, Dick DeVos, dismantling of public education, for-profit charter schools, Gretchen Whitmer, Jim Fouts, Office of Government Ethics, public education, racism, religious extremism, religious sabotage, separation of church and state, The Gathering, threats to public education, virtual charters | 69 Comments

Ypsi to pay Detroit more for water

By Mark | February 2, 2011

Residents of Ypsilanti were informed today that the price they pay for water could rise by 9% or more in the coming year. The following clip comes from AnnArbor.com: …Water rates for customers of the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority could be going up as a result of a proposed 9 percent increase in rates from […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bobby Ferguson, coruption, Dave Bing, Detroit corruption, Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, DWSD, Huron River, Jim Fouts, Kwame Kilpatrick, Larry Thomas, Larry Thomassaid, Victor Mercado, water, YCUA, Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority | 34 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

Secretary of Education pick Betsy DeVos caught on tape, talking about defunding public education in order to “advance God’s kingdom”

Ypsi to pay Detroit more for water

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