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Maxed-Out GOP Donor GEO Group Demands Tax Break from Poorest County in Michigan
Sunday , 6, October 2024 GEO Group, Punk Prison Leave a commentLast month, GEO Group contested a property tax assessment with the Michigan Tax Tribunal, demanding that the value of their sole Michigan prison be significantly reduced. The assessed property is the shuttered North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan. The facility was built 26 years ago with the approval of the Lake County Board of […]
Meet the Candidates: Floyd Brown for Lake County Probate Judge
Friday , 20, September 2024 Candidates, Election 2024 Leave a commentLake County’s primary election on August 6, 2024, eliminated a long list of candidates for Lake County Probate Judge. Of the two remaining candidates, one of them is a Lake County resident with real community roots and an impressive career history. That candidate is Floyd Brown. Floyd Brown graduated from Baldwin High School in 1984. […]
Frisky Friske Update: Nazi Legacy OUT – DeVos Stooge Running for Jodi Decker’s Seat
Wednesday , 7, August 2024 Candidates, Election 2024, Enbridge Line 5, Meet the Candidates 2024 Leave a commentThe dust settled over Michigan after the primary election on August 6, 2024, and there were happy surprises. In State House District 107, Neil Friske (R-Watch me chase a stripper while armed and receive no charges!) lost his primary race to represent the Northern Lower Peninsula and Eastern Upper Peninsula district for another term. In […]
Crib Fit For a Judge UPDATE: It’s Legal But is it Honest?
Tuesday , 30, July 2024 Candidates, Community, Election 2024 Leave a commentThere have been new developments in the case of the Lake County probate judge who lives in a 600-square-foot three-season hunting cabin in the woods. David Glancy claims his main homestead is 10211 East 16th Street in Lake County. But does he live there? Until recently, according to one source, the answer was no. Glancy […]
Crib Fit For a Judge: The Curious Case of Judge Glancy’s Lake County Home
Friday , 5, July 2024 Candidates, Election 2024 2 CommentsOccasionally, the Up North Progressive receives a tip from a reader about strange things happening with political candidates. This time, the tip is about a candidate for probate judge in Lake County and the case of his home address. David M. Glancy is the current Probate Court Judge of Lake County. He was appointed to […]
Frisky Friske Update: Multiple Felonies Edition
Friday , 21, June 2024 Election 2024, Gun Reform, MAGA, MIGOP Leave a commentNeil Friske faces multiple felony charges, including sexual assault, assault of a sexual nature, and a felony weapons charge. The Ingham County Prosecutor told the police to keep investigating. Friske was released from county lockup today. In other news, the Supreme Court again upheld its ruling that red flag laws do not violate the Second […]
BREAKING NEWS: @MIGOP State House Rep Neil Friske Arrested!
Thursday , 20, June 2024 Election 2024, Gun Reform, MAGA, MIGOP, Religious Fundamentalism 1 CommentUPDATE! STATE REP NEIL FRISKE MET THE ADULT DANCER AT DEJA VU. State news reporting today that Republican State House Rep Neil Friske of the 107th has been sitting in a Lansing, MI, jail since early Thursday morning. Major news outlets so far say the reason is undisclosed at this time. State Rep. Neil Friske, […]
Only days after yet another mass shooting happened in Michigan, this time at a water park in Rochester Hills, state media reported a dozen Republicans in Lansing sponsored a bill to make the AR-15 the official state rifle. Adopting state emblems began in the late 19th century. Michigan adopted the apple blossom in 1897. Over […]
Embezzlement Kickbacks and Overcharging Mileage: Lee Chatfield is Back in the News
Tuesday , 16, April 2024 LGBT Rights, Michigan Republicans, MIGOP 1 CommentIt seems only a year ago that a former Republican Speaker of the State House was found guilty of taking bribes for medical marijuana dispensary licenses. That’s because it is! Today, Attorney General Dana Nessel read the charges against Lee Chatfield and his wife in Lansing. Both are charged with misusing social welfare account contributions […]
The X Space Where It Happened: @MIGOP Endgame Agenda For Trans Michiganders
Monday , 29, January 2024 LGBT Rights, MAGA, Michigan Republicans Leave a commentWhile most Michiganders were looking forward to the Detroit Lions playing in the NFC championship game last weekend, some of our elected representatives spent their time on Twitter Spaces discussing how to deny life-saving medical care to trans youth (and adults) in Michigan. A state representative from Ohio and a de-transitioning person named Prisha talked […]