Tag: Michigan

Skoop Skubick: Right To Work Not Going Away

~ Cross posted from RightMichigan.com ~ Damn straight mister. Relentless Positive Action is a sissified way of saying “I don’t want confrontation with labor” by Mr Snyder. No one expected Rick Snyder, the left of center Republican governor to EMBRACE…

EPA Puts Michigan Jobs At Risk

EPA Puts Crosshairs On Michigan Obama Admin Takes Rent Seeking To A New Level. (Cross posted from RightMichigan.com) I have been adding to this all week, and have tried to make it as concise as possible, but as more information…

Labor Reform Held Up Because It Works

Jack McHugh writes today about a couple of labor reform bills just hanging around the Michigan State Senate. The first of them stopping the practice of union employees being paid by school districts: “… many school district payrolls contain “phantom…

MERC Excludes Graduate Student Research Assistants From Judicial Proceedings That Directly Impact Them, Attorney Says

Ruling allowing unionization case to proceed ‘undermines due process’  Students’ status as non-employees needs statutory clarification MIDLAND — Hundreds of University of Michigan students who object to being re-designated as government employees for the purpose of a unionization effort have…

Simpsons Christmas Treat To Michigan

Sunday night cartoons can go in any direction sometimes. The best ones present a perspective on certain topics that are probably more effective in offering a warning than active campaigns. In last night’s Simpson’s episode, a look 30 years into…

Glenn wins Grand Traverse County Republican Debate Straw Poll

Glenn wins Grand Traverse GOP debate straw poll, takes 54% in five candidate contest TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn Wednesday evening won an outright majority of a straw poll taken following a Senate candidates debate…

Traverse City Republican US Senate Debate TONIGHT

Grand Traverse County Republican Party Presents Meet the Republican Candidates for U.S. Senate Michigan Primary Governmental Center, 400 Boardman Ave Traverse City, MI Wednesday, December 7, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Come early and talk with the Senate hopefuls As part…

Herman Cain In Traverse City – The Movie

The next President of the United States of America visited the northern reaches November 10, 2011. I didn’t have much of a write up on it before, but the crowd of 1200+ folks who showed demonstrated the draw of this…