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Governor Whitmer Announces Manufacturing Jobs and New Housing in Northern Michigan
Wednesday , 16, June 2021 Community, Governor Gretchen Whitmer Leave a commentGovernor Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced new manufacturing jobs and mixed-use development in northern Lower Michigan today. The two projects will provide manufacturing jobs in Copemish, and new mixed-use development in Baldwin. M R Products, a woman-owned company that manufactures crowd control and visual barriers will invest $4.2 million dollars to create […]
Stay Safe Toolkit offered to Michigan Businesses
Monday , 13, July 2020 COVID_19, Governor Gretchen Whitmer Leave a commentIn Lansing today, the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity and Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration have online resources available for businesses to better follow Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s latest Executive Order. This order requires workers and customers in all businesses open to the public wear a mask while inside or in crowded spaces. Anyone […]
The Molotov Cocktail Jack O’Malley Lit: “Constitutional” Sheriffs Edition
Thursday , 4, June 2020 Election 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Gun Reform, MAGA, Michigan Republicans Leave a commentYesterday, June 2, 2020, The Glen Arbor Sun published an article exposing more information about the April 15, 2020, political stunt 101st State House Rep Jack O’Malley orchestrated to coordinate with Betsy DeVos’s astroturfed “Operation Gridlock” Trump rally at the state capital in Lansing. The day before, four Michigan Sheriffs signed a press release stating […]
@LeeChatfield and the rest of the @MIGOP Pretend to Backtrack their Support of Domestic Terrorism
Friday , 15, May 2020 Governor Gretchen Whitmer, MAGA, Sad! 2 CommentsLee Chatfield (R-TSA agents think I’m cute), Speaker of Michigan’s State House, and representing the 107th district has never once met a gun he didn’t like. Remember when he introduced a bill to eliminate handgun registration in Michigan? A year later he was handcuffed in a TSA agent’s office at Pellston Regional Airport after trying […]
Dying for Trump’s Election Profits: O’Malley and VanderWall Conspire With Four Sheriffs to Commit Pre-Meditated Murder
Wednesday , 15, April 2020 Community, Election 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, MAGA, Sad!, Trumpenreich 1 CommentThis is one of those days when Up North Progressive throws 400 words away because everything has changed with the passage of hours instead of days. What’s going on in Northern Michigan can only be described as disgusting. Today the sheriffs of four counties in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan issued a press release […]
Marijuana Alone Won’t Fix the Damn Roads But It Could Help
Thursday , 30, May 2019 Governor Gretchen Whitmer Leave a commentThe Michigan Policy Conference on Mackinac Island is wrapping up today. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the new auto insurance reform law that will hopefully lower the highest premiums in the country. Noted along with the irony that the governor signed the bill while visiting the one place in the state where cars are not allowed […]
Rob Alway Editorializes Whitmer’s Visit to Northern Michigan with a Headline only Hearst and Pulitzer Could Love
Saturday , 13, April 2019 Community, Governor Gretchen Whitmer Leave a commentThe way Editor-In-Chief of the Mason County Press Rob Alway tells it, you would think Governor Gretchen Whitmer was skulking in the shadows around the state on April 12, 2019, secretly meeting with supporters as if she has something to hide. Governor Gretchen Whitmer was in Ludington today. Did you know that? Probably not. In […]
Teacher Says Every Time a Politician Mutters ‘Literacy Crisis” a Corporate Education Lobbyist Gets Their Wings
Tuesday , 19, February 2019 Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Section 16 Leave a commentOne of the happiest days of 2019 was watching Governor Gretchen Whitmer on February 12 give her first State of the State address in Michigan’s capital in Lansing. After eight very long, difficult years of the Nerd and Republican policy gutting the wealth of Michigan, there’s the possibility Michigan will get back on track and […]