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Politics and commentary for Northern MichiganMonthly Archives:
Donald Trump Being Donald Trump Early This Morning
Thursday , 28, January 2016 Candidates, Presidential Primary 2016 Leave a comment“@gene70: @FireFlyFury @megynkelly @realDonaldTrump And this is the bimbo that’s asking presidential questions? pic.twitter.com/oU1uUGnuWb“ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2016 He doesn’t even let the sun come up before he’s slinging insults and misogyny around. What a jackass.
GUEST POST: Miss Fortune Ruminates About The Beginning of the End of Dr. Steven Ingersoll
Monday , 25, January 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 2 CommentsLike a Grateful Dead free-form jam that seems to go on forever, Bay City Academy founder Steven Ingersoll’s federal sentencing hearing spectacle returns to U. S. District Court on Tuesday, January 26 for a three-day run. The disgraced charter school honcho’s month-long trial in Bay City ended on March 10, 2015, with a jury convicting […]
Thank You Glistening Quivering Underbelly For Your Excellent Work
Sunday , 24, January 2016 Dr. Ingersoll, Section 16 3 CommentsLast summer while the City of Flint suffered with lead poisoning and the Michigan media spent months laughing at tea party legislators Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat instead (thanks for reminding us, ABC), local media published stories about the foul water, people dying, and children getting sick. The state media paid no attention, and the […]
Mason County Central Schools Makes Gateway To Success Academy Redundant With New Alterantive Ed Program
Saturday , 23, January 2016 Gateway To Success Academy, Section 16 Leave a commentThe Ludington Daily News recently reported on the fate of some of the former students of Journey Junior Senior High School. The alternative school was closed at the end of the 2015 school year due to maintenance of the building not up to code. All of the students relocated to their home districts, and MCC […]
Davison Michigan High School Students Produce Flint Water Documentary
Thursday , 14, January 2016 Community, Flint Water, Nerd Problems Leave a commentDavison High School students produced this excellent documentary about the Flint water crisis.
Enbridge Donates $20k To Repair Damaged Straits Memorial
Thursday , 14, January 2016 Enbridge Line 5, Upper Peninsula Leave a commentThe Pere Marquette National Memorial will be revitalized in part from a donation made by Enbridge Energy Partners. The money will be used by the Michigan Historical Society to rebuild part of the memorial destroyed by fire in 2000. The national memorial is dedicated to the memory of Father Jacques Marquette; he founded the first […]
Jeb! Bush Still Just Barely At The Adult Table Debate: Mad World
Monday , 11, January 2016 Presidential Primary 2016 Leave a commentThe next debate lineup for January 14, with the top ranking candidates in the center and the bottom ranking on the outside. Unfortunately for Jeb!, there is no chance of going back in time and making this right by having a jet engine kill him in his sleep.
Back in 2011, when an unknown, nerdy former chairman of the board of a former computer giant called Gateway was sworn in as governor of the state of Michigan, his plans for the state set off alarm bells in more than a few state residents. Raising taxes on poor people and old people, cutting over […]