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Pig Bones and Public Schools: Meet Betsy DeVos, Our New Education Secretary
How are pig bones like public schools? Dick and Betsy know!Just in time so everyone would be too busy peeling potatoes and baking pies to notice, Donald Trump tapped wife and daughter of Dominion...
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An Open Letter to the Senators Betsy DeVos Bought With Her Money
Betsy thinks this is all that’s required to be an educator.To the Republican Senators who intend to vote for Betsy Devos’s confirmation as Secretary of Education because she bought the office in the...
View ArticleFor-Profit Charter School Founder Uses Extortion and Threats in Letter to...
This story originally appeared on Up North Progressive.LivingstonDevelopmentalAcademy Co-Founder Chuck Stockwell is considered an institution in the Michigan for-profit charter school industry. Who...
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Legacy of a Nerd
This article was first published on Up North Progressive on December 29, 2018On Christmas Eve Rick Snyder closed the citizen’s input hotline early to ensure Michigan taxpayers could no longer object to...
View ArticlePaperwork and Delays and You’re Paying More Money: Post-Trump Shutdown Tax...
When IRS employees came back to work on January 28, 2019, they faced a backlog of work left undone during the 35 day Trump shutdown. Yes, there were five million pieces of mail waiting for them and...
View ArticleCoreCivic and GEO Group Tug of War: North Lake Correctional Facility Has a...
In the world of for-profit incarceration, one company’s loss is another company's gain. GEO Group announced on May 2, 2019, their successful contract bid with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to house...
View ArticleGEO Group Offered Me a Job at North Lake Correctional Facility: I Turned Them...
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School Millage Whack-A-Mole: Fake Facebook People and Modern Politics
Another election day in Michigan fades from memory and people are either celebrating or trying to figure out what went wrong. In Baldwin, Michigan, dismally low voter turnout sank yet another millage...
View ArticleMichigan Legislators Jack O'Malley, Curt VanderWall Conspire With Sheriffs...
This article first appeared on Up North Progressive on April 15, 2020 Today the sheriffs of four counties in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan issued a press release stating they would pick and...
View ArticleYet Another Christofascist is a Pedophile: Lee Chatfield
How does this keep happening? While many were putting out vegan treats for the Qanon Shaman’s magical visit on Insurrection Day Eve, Lee Chatfield was likely concerned over a news story about to break....
View ArticleMichigan's Constitutional Sheriff Problem
The Up North Progressive first published this article on April 4, 2023.As of this writing, our new ungerrymandered democratically elected state legislature is working hard to pass common-sense firearm...
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It’s MAGAPalooza Season In Michigan
This article was originally published on June 1, 2023, on Up North Progressive. On May 22, 2023, Governor Whitmer signed the long-awaited package of bills that included the Extreme Risk Protection...
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