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GUEST POST: Does Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr know how to manage a municipal emergency? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
What Detroit needs is an actual expert Photo by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog. The following is a guest post by Roger Kerson and is Part 2 of a 2-part series. You can read Part 1 HERE. Roge...
Republican Tim Walberg: Stock market crash that tanked the US economy was a “short-time burp” 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
Don’t worry, that was just your retirement income being flushed down the proverbial toilet When the stock market crashed at the end of 2008 while George Bush was phoning in his last six months in off...
GUEST POST: Finance expert says Detroit can pay pensions & bondholders and still balance its budget 26 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
There’s more to see in Detroit than meets the eye Eclectagraphic by Anne C. Savage The following is a guest post by Roger Kerson and is Part 1 of a 2-part series. Roger is a Michigan-based media con...
Eclectablog’s own @LOLGOP now a regular guest on the Night Shift with Tony Trupiano radio show 26 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
LOLGOP takes to the airwaves Our good friend Christine Barry from Blogging for Michigan has had to step down from participating in the Blog Role segment on the Night Shift with Tony Trupiano radio sh...
ACTION: Speak now in support of Michigan Medicaid expansion 26 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
Or forever hold your peace. I know, I know … there’s been talk of a vote in the Michigan Senate on Medicaid expansion for months. But this time, it’s possible it could actually happen this week. Whic...
Justin Amash’s extremely limited view of liberty 24 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
‘While poverty persists, there is no freedom.’ – Nelson Mandela A few months ago, PPP Polls found that my Twitter account @LOLGOP would be slightly ahead of Rep. Justin Amash in a head-to-head race f...
Michigan League of Conservation Voters advocates for some of the state’s best assets 23 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Michigan LCV helps make sure the Mitten’s natural resources are in good hands. If you’re spending the last blast of summer enjoying Michigan’s great outdoors, you can thank the Michigan League of Con...
Eclectablog op-ed about Netroots Nation ’14 in the Detroit News (+ bonus South African post) 23 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
There are two sides to this story Earlier this month, the Detroit News printed an op-ed from an anti-union corporatist group known as the Franklin Center. This Koch brothers’ funded group is nothing ...
10 ideas Republicans loved until Barack Obama became President 23 Aug 2013 | 05:01 am
It’s not the ideas they hate, is it? Republican obstructionism isn’t exactly new in Washington, D.C. It’s been all the rage since Barack Obama was elected President. Since then, a majority of Republi...
UPDATED: Rep. Bentivolio rants about wasteful spending, wastes money on partisan attacks 22 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
You can’t have it both ways, Congressman. UPDATED: Based on the tweet below from Matthew Chisholm, I have made updates to this post, including the headline, in an effort to be as fair as possible. Ho...
