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Snyder Sent Flint Emergency Manager To Poison Detroit School Children
The poisoning of Flint’s school children is what is expected when Republicans abolish democracy to provide more money for the rich
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Stuck On Repeat
Gov. Snyder has no intention of allowing the people of Detroit any say-so when it comes to Detroit Public Schools.
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Can’t Blame Obama: African-American Voters Showed Up But Rick Snyder Won In Michigan
We can’t blame this on Obama. And we can’t blame it on Detroit voters not turning out at the polls either. Despite high turnout in Detroit, Republican Rick Snyder was re-elected as Governor of Michigan.
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To Pillage and Plunder: Republican Leadership to Make 150,000 Homeless in Detroit
In the next year and a half, as many as 150,000 people are expected to lose their homes due to foreclosures, representing nearly 1/5 of the entire population of the city of Detroit.
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Democracy Returns To Detroit…Or Does It?
On Thursday evening, September 25, democracy was permitted to return to Detroit when City Council members voted unanimously to restore full power to the city’s elected leaders.
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Gov. Rick Snyder Might Lose In Michigan? Not Exactly a Shocker
There are those who find themselves surprised that Democratic challenger Mark Schauer now finds himself with a slim lead over sitting Gov. Rick Snyder in the contest over who will lead Michigan forward for the next term. I’m not one of those people.
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Gov. Rick Snyder’s Emergency Manager Is Denying Poor People Running Water In Detroit
A coalition working with organizations and activists the world over to promote water as a basic human right filed a report with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on behalf of tens-of-thousands of poor Detroit residents who are being denied access to running water.
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Republican Rick Snyder’s Scythe Cuts Through Michigan’s Surplus and Kills Job Growth
Under Republican Governor Rick Snyder, Michigan shows how starving the beast and corporate giveaways plays out on a micro level, in case anyone missed it during the Bush years.
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Detroit Bankruptcy Inevitable; The Road Taken To Bankruptcy Inexcusable
It’s hardly a surprise that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes declared on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2013, that Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy.
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Where Were You When They Stole Detroit’s Democracy?
If it happens here, it certainly won’t end here. The threat to Detroit’s democracy is a threat to everyone who values their right to vote.
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Detroit is the New Conservative Wet Dream
With entire swaths of Detroit uninhabited, some white knights are swooping in and buying up empty lots, parking lots and buildings both big and small.
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Detroit Sinks Deeper Into Hell As It Faces Right Wing Utopian Fantasies
Detroit faces austerity, vulture capitalists, and privatization as right wing ideologues pounce. Of course, no good will come of it.
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Detroit Is Beta-Test of the GOP Plan To Sell The Federal Government to Corporations
The first beta-test of selling off a city to corporations began when an emergency manager in Detroit filed for bankruptcy, and it is a harbinger of the Republicans’ plan for the federal government.
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Michigan’s Education Achievement Authority Lights the Way Toward Abolishing Public Education
Michigan Gov. Snyder’s Education Achievement Authority has been created for the sole purpose of establishing a workable model demonstrating how to destroy the nation’s public education system.
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Arne Duncan, Secretary of Misinformation and Miseducation
Who should we see sitting next to Secretary Duncan, joyfully reading stories to suitably enraptured Detroit school children but Gov. Rick Snyder.
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Tears of Joy as Emergency Manager Is Leaving Detroit Public Schools
The Detroit Public Schools emergency manager has announced his all-too-welcome decision to GTFO and step down in a couple weeks.
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Gov. Snyder’s Emergency Manager Law May Violate Equal Protection Rights
The clock is ticking, and Detroit’s new Emergency Manager is listening. June 23 is the 50th anniversary of the date when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in Detroit.
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Detroit’s Emergency Manager Is Just As Guilty As the Crook Who Hired Him
Rick Snyder’s intention all along has been to hijack democracy in Michigan – and Detroit in particular – and now he officially accomplished exactly that.
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Democracy Thief Rick Snyder is Struggling to Find an Emergency Manager for Detroit
It seems Gov. Rick Snyder is having a bit of difficulty finding anyone who wants the job of becoming the emergency manager for Detroit.
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Michigan Shows Us How Republicans Plan to Get Revenge for 2012 Loss
if you want to get an idea of what is written in the post Election 2012 Koch Brothers Playbook (aka ‘How YOU Can Still Strangle Blue States in the Crib’), then you need look no further than Michigan.
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You live in Michigan? Your rights are optional
If you want to get an idea of what Republican revenge for President Obama’s victory in 2012 looks like, look no further than Michigan.
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Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Thumbs his Nose at Court Ruling
Republican Governor Rick Snyder and his henchmen continue to do all they can to thwart the will of the people by forcing PA4 (the Emergency Manager law) down their throats.
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Rick Snyder Attempts to Kill Democracy in Michigan via Fontgate
Republicans decided that the people of Michigan should not be allowed to vote on the Emergency Manager law because the size of the font on the petition. Seriously.
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Michigan’s Emergency Manager Laws Are Dismantling Democracy from Within
It is no exaggeration to say that Michigan’s emergency manager laws are a threat to democracy, and the chance to repeal them faces an uncertain future
If Romney Wins, Detroit is a Warning of What’s in Store for Everyone Else
If Romney wins in November, urban communities around the country will be forced into dependency by hateful Republicans. If Obama loses, Detroit is a preview of things to come.