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• Posted About last night... to Progress Michigan
  WTF was that? What was supposed to last 24 minutes turned into an hour long affair. Apparently, the Governor doesn't speechify in dog years. Listing from point to point, Gov. Snyder's State of the State address seemed to lack...
• Posted Tomorrow: Join our live-chat of Gov. Snyder's State of the State to Progress Michigan
  Tomorrow Gov. Snyder will deliver his second State of the State speech, and we’ll hear a lot about what a great job he thinks his administration is doing. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, let’s look at a...
• Posted Finally, a Watchdog on Wall Street to Progress Michigan
  After holding the nation hostage during the debt crisis and refusing to extend the payroll tax cut without large giveaways to Big Oil and Wall Street, Congressional Republicans this week decided to begin 2012 just where they left off in 2011.
• Posted Just can't get enough to Progress Michigan
  Congressional Republicans just can’t get enough. They can’t get enough Big Oil giveaways. They can’t get enough handouts for their corporate friends. And they can’t get enough of your money. In fact, they’re using your money to get those things....
• Posted Republicans are trying to raise your taxes to Progress Michigan
  Republicans in Congress are at it again. For the fifth time in two months Congressional Republicans blocked Democratic efforts to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans and small business owners. Why? Because it asks the wealthiest...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Bad, Badder, BEST to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair takes us through the bad, badder, and best in today's Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Richard Muller seemed like the last best hope of the anti-science movement.This month he published his global temperature results, and the climate...
• Posted Sugar Law: Leaders in Defending Michigan Democracy to Progress Michigan
  Protests.  Rallies.  Arrests. People are restless. People are anxious. Occupy Wall Street camps are popping up all over—and for good reason. Big banks and financial institutions got bailed out -and are now making record profits while the rest of us...
• Posted Have you seen these missing persons? to Progress Michigan
  This is a breaking news bulletin. U.S. Representatives Dave Camp and Fred Upton, appointed to the supercommittee two months ago, have not been seen engaging their constituents for months. Rep. Fred Upton was at a public forum on August 15...
• Posted Modernizing and Greening Schools Will Create A Good Learning Environment for Students and Good Jobs in Michigan to Progress Michigan
  (This guest post was written by David Hecker, President of the AFT Michigan.) A few weeks ago, before a joint session of Congress, President Obama outlined the American Jobs Act and said, “…there are schools throughout this country that desperately...
• Posted Michigan to Occupy Wall Street to Progress Michigan
  Americans are beyond angry and frustrated with not being heard by the people they elect - who only listen to the millionaires and corporate sponsors who fund their campaigns. That's why you're seeing Americans from unemployed people to airline pilots...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: NASA on Arctic Sea Ice to Progress Michigan
  Dr. Tom Wagner of NASA explains the sea ice minimum in simple terms:...
• Posted Stand up for kids, not CEOs! to Progress Michigan
  A poignant video from the Michigan Education Assocation: Republicans in Lansing voted to give a $1.8 billion tax break to rich CEOs and corporate special interests — paid for by cuts to our local schools. Big banks and oil companies...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: 2011 Arctic Ice Minimum to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair takes a look at the Arctic's disappearing ice in today's Climate Denial Crock of the Week:...
• Posted Maybe Congress will listen to us... to Progress Michigan
  Here is a poignant video from America's students calling on Congress to pass the American Jobs Act and help put over 280,000 educators back to work while modernizing over 35,000 of our nation's aging public schools:  ...
• Posted Moving the Goalposts to Progress Michigan
  A month ago we examined how Michigan was performing under the tutelage of Gov. Rick Snyder. As it turned out, Michigan was performing poorly, very poorly. Gov. Snyder’s most prized metrics - jobs and value-for-money government - were both showing...
• Posted BREAKING: Rich Politicians Against Raising Taxes on the Rich to Progress Michigan
  Today, a group of Patriotic Millionaires released a video challenging several of Michigan’s prominent politicians and 36 of their Republican Millionaire Politician’ colleagues for their opposition to the Buffett Rule.  The message of the video is simple: Millionaire Politicians who vote...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Energy Efficiency Part 2 to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair gets the facts about renewable energy and energy efficiency: Using less energy, and generating with renewables, is easier, cheaper, and more effective than fossil fuel funded propaganda would have you believe. Here are some great examples of why...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Cosmic Rays to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair gets the facts about climate change and cosmic rays straight: This video is to provide a check against rampant distortions of this research - by hearing the scientist speak for himself. Please use and link to this video...
• Posted Where does Rich Studley End and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Begin? to Progress Michigan
  A lifestyle choice?That's what Rich Studley - President & CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce - thinks of anyone who needs a helping hand longer than 48 months in this horrible economy. Need assistance to support your family?...
• Posted REPORT: STATE POLITICIANS USE TAXPAYER FUNDS TO JOIN CORPORATE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP, ALEC to Progress Michigan
  LANSING - A report released today by We Are the People and Progress Michigan shows that current and former Michigan Legislators spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on membership fees to join the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Monckton Bringing the Crazy to Kiwi Land to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair checks up on Lord Christopher Monckton in this week's Climate Denial Crock of the Week: One of the world's most prominent, and controversial, climate change skeptics, has been in New Zealand this week. Lord Christopher Monckton, the 3rd...
• Posted Gov. Rick Snyder: One Callous Nerd to Progress Michigan
  Two weeks ago we compared how Gov. Rick Snyder was performing to what he promised during his campaign. Today, we’re revisiting that comparison with some updated statistics. When Rick Snyder was running for governor he made creating a “jobs friendly...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: This is not cool. Heatwave 2011. to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair delves into the 2011 heatwave and some of its causes in today's Climate Denial Crock of the Week:    ...
• Posted Snyder’s new showdown to Progress Michigan
  (Jessica Kelton is a guest blogger for Progress Michigan. She teaches economics and political economy at Lansing Community College.)It looks like there may be another Tea Party showdown wild wild West style led by Governor Rick Snyder.  After his legislative...
• Posted Renewable Energy Solution of the Month to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair takes a break from his much acclaimed "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" to bring you this week's "Renewable Energy Solution of the Month":...
• Posted Rick Snyder and the Republican Chamber of Commerce to Progress Michigan
  Do you follow President & CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Rich Studley on Twitter (@rstudley)? If not, you should. It reads as if he simply reposts GOP talking points straight to his account. Looking for absolutely zero in-depth...
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: The August and Exalted Lord Monckton to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair delves into climate denier Lord Monckton's claims that he can cure HIV, flu, and the common cold in this week's Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
• Posted Michele Bachmann is a Clown to Progress Michigan
  Is Michele Bachmann the comedic gift that keeps on giving? I think so. In addition to her well-documented history of factual misstatements and lies, Michele Bachmann has gone two for two in her two-day old presidential campaign.
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Unwinding "Hide the Decline" to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair dissects the hacked global warming email in this week's Climate Denial Crock of the Week:
• Posted Climate Denial Crock of the Week: The "Temp Leads Carbon" to Progress Michigan
  Peter Sinclair exposes the "Temp Leads Carbon" Climate Denial Crock of the Week, "The climate denial industry is reliant on a kind of magic. The ability of professional decievers to create an illusion that settled science is somehow unsettled. That...