Category: Real Discussion II

What can we do? How can we fight? What solutions can we bring to the table?

Kent County School Districts Sued For Privatization Language

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Files Suit Against 10 Kent County School Districts, KCEA, on Behalf of Taxpayers Suit seeks to purge illegal “no-privatization” contract language MIDLAND — Patrick J. Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, today announced a…

FYI What MFTA HTS about MEDC YKWIM? OB LOL

Snyder is working with Jennifer Granholm on the selection of MEDC guys..  YAWN.  Another appointment of people to spend your money by picking ponies. This hardly comes as any surprise.  The giant roulette table known as Michigan’s economy has state…

Proud Pater And Party Crasher

Saturday was a busy day..  It started early and had to do with a lot of travel.  First we trekked to Mount Pleasant for a couple of events that are milestones in a person’s life.  At least a person who…

MTA Awards Banquet

Friday, December 17th at 6:30PM for Banquet guests. Private reception begins at 5:30. Tickets are $40 per person, $75 per couple and include dinner, beer and wine, and the opportunity to meet our special guests. Who: You! What: The 2nd…

Michigan Taxpayers Awards Banquet

If you haven’t heard, a week from today (December 17, 2010) is the big shindig! 2nd Annual MTA Awards Banquet What a year! We witnessed a genuine citizen uprising that involved many new activists who stepped up to protest and…

Day Care Union Case Appealed to State Supreme Court

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Asks Michigan Supreme Court to Review Day Care Union Case Wright: Case involving 40,000 Michigan home-based businesses, $4 million and illegal government actions deserves hearing MIDLAND — Patrick J. Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal…

Iconography

~ Reposted From RightMichigan.com ~ When challenged at a press conference in 2009, Michigan Congressman JohnConyers’ exclaiming that he does not read the bills was of course troubling.  His thoughts? “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand…

Americana

Thanksgiving was as it should be in the Gillman household…  Perfect. Aside from the missing folks who have made it great in years past, including my mother who passed on this year, two brothers and their lovely brides, (out of…

Happy Thanksgiving

Today I thank God for all that has blessed and touched our lives, and for having your readership. You are not taken for granted. I would like to wish MTTM readers continued prosperity and health. And may god continue to…

Doing What They Can – With Thanks.

The Traverse Bay 912 project has had a number of functions both philanthropic and educational that may not have happened without it. In the past, and even as ongoing projects, the 912ers have conducted constitutional classes, performed productions at local…