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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Urges US Fish and Wildlife: Don’t Remove Gray Wolves from the Endangered Species List
Wednesday , 24, July 2019 DNR, Environment, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentAttorney General Dana Nessel submitted a letter to David Bernhardt of the United States Department of the Interior in response to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal to remove the gray wolf from the endangered and threatened list on March 15, 2019. AG Nessel’s letter stresses the service’s requirement to follow the law […]
Recall Inman Committee Submits Petition Language to Recall 104th State House Representative Larry Inman
Tuesday , 23, July 2019 Candidates, Elections Leave a commentPetition language for a recall campaign on State Legislator Larry Inman (R – 104) was submitted to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers by the Recall Inman Committee on Friday, July 19, 2019. Petition canvassers will have 60 days to collect 12,000 signatures to trigger a special election and remove Inman from his seat once […]
#MAGA Candidate for US Congress Tom Norton Waxes Trans-phobic While His Children Watch
Wednesday , 17, July 2019 Election 2020, Sad! 1 CommentTom Norton of Cedar Springs, Michigan, is a Trump lovin’ liberal hatin’ man’s man with a burning hatred for anyone who deviates the slightest degree left into dirty librul political territory. His US Congressman, Justin Amash (I – LOLbertarian but Woke), Did the unforgivable and declared American Lord and Savior Donald J. Trump ( R […]
Jeffrey Epstein Funded a Lodge at Interlochen Fine Arts Camp
Thursday , 11, July 2019 Sad! Leave a commentThe Daily Beast reports Jeffrey Epstein funded a log “scholarship lodge” at Michigan’s Interlochen Center for the Arts and donated to the fine arts center during the 1990s. After his 2003 conviction, Interlochen broke all connections with Epstein and removed his name from everything associated with the fine arts center. Epstein attended Interlochen Fine Arts […]
@onetoughnerd Decides Not To Go To Harvard After All Because Everybody’s Being Mean #NoSnyderFellowship #OpFlint
Wednesday , 3, July 2019 Flint Water, Nerd Problems, Nestlé Leave a commentOn Sunday, June 30, 2019, @prisonculture launched a tweetstorm to right the injustice of granting Rick Snyder a fellowship at Harvard University. People answered her call to action and flooded the Dean of the Kennedy School where Snyder would have spent the next year offering his knowledge and experience to the students of Harvard. What […]
Legacy of @onetoughnerd: Updated for @Harvard @Kennedy_School #NoSnyderFellowship
Monday , 1, July 2019 Nerd Problems Leave a commentThis article originally appeared on Up North Progressive on December 29, 2018 On Christmas Eve Rick Snyder closed the citizen’s input hotline early to ensure Michigan taxpayers could no longer call and object to the shame duck bills he signed just in time for Gretchen Whitmer to take over on January 1, 2019. It’s the […]
Doesn’t the Upper Peninsula Need Line 5’s Propane?
Sunday , 30, June 2019 Enbridge Line 5, Upper Peninsula Leave a commentThis video from Oil and Water Don’t Mix has the answer. It’s time to decommission Enbridge Line 5.
Attorney General Dana Nessel Begins the Process to Decommission Enbridge Line 5
Thursday , 27, June 2019 Enbridge Line 5, Environment Leave a commentToday Dana Nessel began the process of decommissioning Enbridge Line 5. The 66-year-old pipeline poses a devastating ecological threat to the Straits of Mackinac and the Great Lakes. The Attorney General filed a motion to dismiss Enbridge’s June 6, 2019, lawsuit to force the state to stick to an unconstitutional law passed during the shame […]
@SenVanderWall and the Big Star Lake Beach Wars: An Angry Constituent Reaches Out to Up North Progressive
Sunday , 9, June 2019 Candidates, Community, Michigan Republicans 1 CommentUp North Progressive enjoys receiving comments from readers. Sometimes they are messages of appreciation and support for the content. Sometimes they are messages full of vitriol from conservatives for telling the truth. There are even times when readers make threats because they really hate the truth. Once in a while, a reader leaves a comment […]