Five days ago, in response to repeated, unverified claims of election fraud, Chris Krebs, the Trump -appointed director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency, issued a statement declaring definitely, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” The official Cybersecurity and […]
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Donald Trump fires the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency for telling the truth and saying that there was no election fraud
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Brad Raffensperger, Chris Krebs, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Donald Trump, election fraud, Georgia, Joe Biden, Lindsay Graham, Monica Palmer, Senate Judiciary Committee, Wayne County Board of Canvassers, William Hartmann 122 Comments
Can the Regional Transit Authority plan for SE Michigan be salvaged?
Several weeks ago, when I had Ben Stupka from the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan (RTA) on the Saturday Six Pack, we talked at some length about why it was that his organization’s new regional transit master plan seemed to be advancing through the political process so smoothly, when the 20-some previous attempts to […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rail, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, BRT, bus rapid transit, Great Lakes Water Authority, L. Brooks Patterson, Macomb County, Mark Hackel, mass transit, millage, Oakland County, racism, Rail, Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan, regionalism, RTA, Stephen Henderson, trains, Washtenaw County 23 Comments
Michigan asks Washington for $830 million to establish Detroit-Chicago high-speed rail
Remember how, a while ago, I told you that the feds had set aside over $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, and Michigan was joining with other states in the vicinity of Chicago to make a request? Well, today was the deadline, and it appears as though we’ve requested $830 million from Uncle Sam. At […]
Posted in Detroit, Global Warming, Rail, Sustainability, Ypsilanti Also tagged 9/11, Amtrak, Ann Arbor - Detroit rail, budget cuts, Carmine Palumbo, Chicago, Detroit Free Press, high-speed rail, Jennifer Granholm, John Dingell, manufacturing, Mark Shauer, Milwaukee, Robert Ficano, SEMCOG, subsidies, train manufacturing, Ypsilanti train depot 12 Comments