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Welcome Home Brooke Capser: Principal Vanishing Act Addendum
Saturday , 23, June 2018 Section 16, Uncategorized Leave a commentFormer Grand Traverse Academy principal Brooke Capser is now also the former principal of Lowell Elementary School in Missoula, Montana. Brooke returned to Traverse City recently after working one school year for the Missoula County Public Schools. The announcement of Capser’s departure was noted in the local news. Interviews for the next principal at Lowell […]
@pjcolbeck Tried to Hijack Michigan’s Social Studies Curriculum: Let Him Know Exactly What You Think
Monday , 18, June 2018 Section 16, Tea Party 2 CommentsIn early May of 2018, Social Studies teachers in Michigan were offered the opportunity to review the latest draft of the Social Studies Content Standards projected to replace the 2007 standards by 2019. Considering that starting this year state testing accounts for half of 40 percent of a teacher’s annual evaluation, it would be nice […]
Care For an Ultrasound With Your Slice? Welcome to Our Pizza Parlor/Crisis Pregnancy Center
Wednesday , 13, June 2018 Community, Michigan Women, Religious Fundamentalism 3 CommentsAbout 500 years ago in the days before the 2016 election, Trumpians and Bernie Bros alike poured over emails Wikileaks received from Russian hackers at the behest of the Trump campaign searching for any dirt on Hillary Clinton that could be used to fuel even more vitriolic misogynist bile against her and her campaign. An […]
The Worst School Massacre in US History Happened 91 Years Ago Today and You’ve Probably Never Heard of It. #NeverAgain
Friday , 18, May 2018 Election 2018, Gun Reform, Section 16 Leave a commentSince posting this, another school shooting has happened in the United States. This time at Santa Fe High School in Texas. We don’t need thoughts and prayers, we need gun reform now! It’s not too soon to talk about it, for too many people it’s way too late! It’s been absolutely amazing witnessing […]
What Do GEO Group and Baldwin’s Sewer Have In Common? A Possible 22,000 Bed ICE Contract with the Federal Government
Sunday , 15, April 2018 Community 4 CommentsThe April 5, 2018 Lake County Star reported that GEO Group Inc., would pay for major upgrades to Baldwin’s sewer system in anticipation of receiving a contract with the federal government to house as many as 22,000 immigration detainees. North Lake Correctional Facility, located in Webber Township north of Baldwin, sits empty since last summer […]
Nestlé “We Own the Muskegon River” Waters Gets MDEQ Approval to Pump 400 Gallons of Ground Water Every Single Minute.
Wednesday , 4, April 2018 Environment, Flint Water, Nestlé Leave a commentWhile people in Flint are quickly approaching a thousand days with undrinkable water, the Michigan Department of Environmental IneQuality approved Nestlé Waters’ request to more than double the output of water from the ground in Osceola County and sell it for a profit. This is after a year and a half of written comment, and […]
All-Volunteer Petition Campaign to End Gerrymandering in Michigan Delivers 425,000 Signatures
Monday , 18, December 2017 Elections, Gerrymandering The Vote Leave a commentVolunteers from the citizen group Voters Not Politicians arrived in Lansing, Michigan on Monday, December 18, 2017 to deliver over 400,000 signatures to the Michigan Bureau of Elections to put an end to gerrymandering in the state. The group needed 315,654 signatures to qualify for the November 2018 mid-term ballot. The hard-working organization of 3,500 […]
When You Don’t Vote on November 7 You Make Special Elections Cry
Monday , 6, November 2017 Candidates, Elections Leave a commentOn Tuesday, November 7, 2017, special elections will be held in Michigan. Only a few regions are electing candidates to fill open seats, but almost all parts of the state have millage elections for schools, 911, libraries, and other municipal services that must be approved by voters to continue. This year, it’s very important that […]
US Court of Appeals Rules to Keep Michigan Wolves on Endangered Species List
Tuesday , 1, August 2017 DNR, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentThe U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today to keep wolves in the Great Lakes on the endangered species list after U.S. Fish and Wildlife ruled enough animals lived in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota to remove them from the list in 2011. In 2014, a Federal Judge put them back on the endangered species list after […]