I know that all anyone wants to talk about these days is our story about the elaborate “fuck Flint I want to go shopping”-themed cake Governor Snyder had made for his wife’s birthday, which has now spread to the likes of Gawker and Wonkette, but, for my own sanity, I’ve got to move on. So, […]
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Jeff Irwin on renewed movement in the Michigan House to kill Snyder’s Emergency Manager law, Ethan Lowenstein on the value of place-based education, and the witchy music of Spelling… on episode 38 of the Saturday Six Pack
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Education, Politics, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized Also tagged Aaron Spelling, bellows, belonging, brushes with panty fame, casting spells, checks and balances, community, Craig Johnson, Detroit, dioxane, disinvestment, drone instruments, EAA, Eastern Michigan University, Education Achievement Authority, education reform, education spending, education theory, Educational Achievement Authority, Emergency Manager, EMU, Ethan Lowenstein, Flint, Flint water crisis, Gawker, Gelman plume, Gelman Sciences, globalization, guns in schools, Happiness, Jeff Irwin, Johnny Lupinacci, lead, lead poisoning, Medicare, Name Brand Tattoo, open carry, Patrick Elkins, place-based education, pollution, public education, racism, Rick Snyder, SEMIS Coalition, shruti box, Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition, spelling, threats to public education, Victoria Weeber, water, white flight, witchy 11 Comments
Nothing says you care about the people of Flint like hosting an opulent party for your friends in downtown Ann Arbor behind blacked out windows
I got word this past weekend that there was a secret party taking place in downtown Ann Arbor, a posh event inside an upscale restaurant. The windows of the restaurant, I was told, had been “blacked out,” and there was security outside. The man who had rented it out, according to the person who first […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged Ann Arbor News, birthday parties, blind items, cake, criminal investigation, FBI, Flint, Flint Child Health and Development Fund, Flint water crisis, Heather Anne Leavitt, Judge Mathis, lead, lead poisoning, Legionnaires' disease, Live, Nordstrom's, parties, poison, public health, public health emergency, Rick Snyder, Sue Snyder, Susan Fecteau, Sweet Heather Anne, water, West End Grill 90 Comments