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Governor Rick Snyder Signs Bill Privatizing Michigan State Police
Saturday , 1, April 2017 Community Leave a commentIn a bid to save his 2011 corporate tax cuts of $1.8 billion dollars from the Michigan state budget, today Governor Rick Snyder, in a rare visit to his office in Lansing, signed a bill requiring the state to accept bids from private contractors to operate the Michigan State Police beginning April 1, 2018. Michigan […]
Michigan’s Republican Welfare Drug Tests Successful at Wasting Taxpayer Money for No Good Reason
Thursday , 23, June 2016 Community, Nerd Problems 2 CommentsJust like every other state in the country that passed a ‘test welfare recipients for illegal drugs’ law, Michigan successfully wasted taxpayer money testing 303 welfare recipients and found 0 positive tests. This is consistent with other states that also passed drug test people on welfare laws, and successfully wasted taxpayer money testing people who […]
The Criminally Negligent Nerd Who Told Volunteers No: Michigan Youth ChalleNGe Academy
Saturday , 30, April 2016 Community, Flint Water, Nerd Problems Leave a commentNestled in Battle Creek, Michigan, on the grounds of Fort Custer live the cadets of Michigan Youth ChalleNGe Academy. At-risk teens ages 16 to 18 volunteer to attend this program to improve their lives and learn skills to stay out of trouble as they transition to adult life. Operated by the Michigan National Guard, the […]
Gary Glenn Continues to Hate People Who Are Not Gary Glenn: My Name’s in the News Edition
Sunday , 22, November 2015 LGBT Rights, Nerd Problems, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, Tea Party, Tealiban 10 CommentsGary Glenn documented every instance of his name on his Facebook page this week in relation to Rick Snyder being the first state governor to ban, then put on hold relocating Syrian refugees to Michigan. Glenn shared his press release and quotes from online news, broadcast, and print sources such as Midland Daily News, Mlive, […]
Bill Schuette Can’t Stop Being Schuette: Calls On The Nerd To Impose Sanctions On Iran
Tuesday , 1, September 2015 Bill Schuette, Nerd Problems Leave a commentIn a letter to The Nerd dated August 31, 2015, Attorney General Bill Schuette encouraged Snyder to impose state-level sanctions against Iran in the event that the forty year old federal sanctions are lifted. President Obama and the State Department spent months negotiating with the Iranian government to find an agreement where they cease all […]
Good For The Goose, Good For The Gander: Snyder, Jeb Used Private Emails To Discuss State Business
Tuesday , 17, March 2015 Nerd Problems, Presidential Primary 2016 Leave a commentAs the Republicans continue their futile quest to manufacture some scandal that makes Hillary Clinton less of a shoe-in for 2016 (not gonna happen), Progress Michigan found that Governor Nerd used private email to discuss state business with former governor of Florida and 2016 GOP hopeful Jeb Bush. So far, the email scandal has about […]