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Politics and commentary for Northern MichiganMonthly Archives:
Michigan Wolves Will Remain On Endangered Species List
Tuesday , 30, June 2015 DNR, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt 3 CommentsThe US Fish and Wildlife Service denied an appeal by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and State Attorney General’s Office to change the classification of wolves from “endangered” to “threatened.” In December of 2014, a federal court ordered wolves in the Western Great Lakes to be put back on the endangered species list. The […]
Coheed and Cambria Sing Justice Scalia’s Dissenting Opinions #lovewins
Saturday , 27, June 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage Leave a commentGood morning! Coheed and Cambria Sing Justice Scalia’s Dissenting Opinions from Funny Or Die
Lockheed Martin Employee Arthur Karros Explains The Proper Way To Spend Taxpayer Dollars To Us Elite Liberals
Tuesday , 23, June 2015 Tea Party Charter School Leave a commentNearly every day Up North Progressive receives comments from readers with both positive and negative feedback. One article that seems to cause the most grief so far is this one, because how dare anyone call out a college for opening schools, right? The most recent comment to this article comes from a man who works […]
Constitutionally The Federal Government Has No Proper Role In Marriage: Loving v. Virginia Never Happened and Other Marriage Absurdity
Sunday , 21, June 2015 LGBT Rights, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party Leave a commentTodd Courser, the man with ideas much smaller than the forehead that houses them thinks the answer to stopping gay marriage is to strip the state of the power to perform marriages. He introduced a bill this week that would only allow ordained ministers to marry couples. This means judges, mayors, county clerks, magistrates, and […]
Lake County Senior Food Program Provides Free Food For Residents
Wednesday , 17, June 2015 Community Leave a commentFree food is available to seniors living in Lake County on the third Friday of every month. The food is available at two locations in the city of Baldwin and handed out on a first come, first served basis. Food for 100 families is available. The first location is at St. Ann’s Senior Center from […]
What Pro-Life Really Looks Like: Finland Is Awesome
Monday , 15, June 2015 Michigan Women, Religious Fundamentalism, Tea Party 7 Comments(This article was written by Hoi Polloi and first appeared on Daily Kos January 25, 2014) On December 11, 2013, the state legislature in Michigan voted on a petition measure titled, “No Taxes For Abortion Insurance.” The petition, circulated by Michigan Right to Life collected signatures telling people this was to make sure tax dollars […]
How Much Does It Cost To Live In Your County?
Sunday , 14, June 2015 Community, Presidential Primary 2016 3 CommentsIf you’re working a part time or minimum wage job, many regions of the United States’ cost of living is out of reach. In Michigan, where there are huge disparities between wages and cost of living, food and shelter for a single person earning minimum wage is impossible even in the poorest counties. Find your […]
The Nerd Continues To Punish Poor People For the Crime of Being Poor: School Attendance Edition
Friday , 12, June 2015 Nerd Problems, Section 16 3 CommentsRick Snyder this week signed a bill that ties Family Independence Program benefits to school attendance. Students with poor attendance put food and cash assistance benefits at risk for the entire family. Children aged 6 to 15 who don’t attend school regularly will jeopardize FIP for the family, if the child is 16 and older, […]
Michigan Natural Resources Commission Bans Archery Anterless Deer Harvest In The Upper Peninsula
Friday , 12, June 2015 DNR, Upper Peninsula 5 CommentsNo anterless deer may be harvested in the Upper Peninsula for the 2015-2016 bow hunting season. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission approved the ban on Thursday, June 11, in Monroe, Michigan, in an effort to help the deer population in the UP recover from successive winter die-offs. The anterless ban applies to hunters using the […]
Michigan Department of Education Provides Online M-STEP Surveys: You Know What To Do
Wednesday , 10, June 2015 Section 16 4 CommentsM-STEP testing is finally over in the state of Michigan. After 8 non-stop weeks of computer breakdowns, network downtime, teachers frantically searching for windows of time when the computer lab wasn’t being used for more testing, and frustrated school superintendents writing emotional letters to elected politicians, teachers looked at what little time was left for […]