Column quotes guy who helped kill Eliot-Larsen expansion to smear Fair Michigan
We start with a lesson in recent history: At the end of the last incarnation of our ongoing experiment in the Dunning-Kruger effect, there was a rush on to expand the Eliot-Larsen non-discrimination...
View ArticleRick Michigan: “This bill is flawed and is not fully understood, but Imma...
What a load of shit: Today I signed Senate Bill 571 into law. Because of the substantial public debate surrounding the bill’s passage, I am taking the opportunity to explain why I signed this bill, and...
View ArticleThe LSJ editorial board took a journey to the center of its mind and all we...
Here’s an interesting tactic: start talking shit about something someone else is doing, and then convince a third party that the thing the other person is doing can’t succeed because not everyone is...
View ArticleBill Ballenger’s downfall enabled by awful, incestuous Lansing culture
Everyone who follows Michigan politics, even casually, has by now heard that Bill Ballenger’s public relationship with Inside Michigan Politics, which he started more than 25 years ago, was ended last...
View ArticleLGBT advocacy groups score significant victory over LGBT equality
Well, this is sad. Lansing — Fair Michigan, a bipartisan campaign committee that hoped to put an equal rights proposal on the November ballot, announced Friday it is calling it quits for 2016 amid...
View ArticleThe time our ongoing experiment in the Dunning-Kruger effect decided to...
Bridge Magazine had a pretty excellent series last fall exploring the issue of drinking culture on Michigan’s college campuses. It kicked off with an embedded reporter riding along with local cops on...
View ArticleBill Ballenger launches online living history museum celebrating 1982
Website review: The Ballenger Report, by Bill Ballenger. The Ballenger Report, by Bill Ballenger, gives its visitors the same feeling that they do when they walk into one of those living history homes,...
View ArticleGetting rid of the undemocratic emergency manager law
Way back in the day, I thought the beefed up emergency manager powers were probably a necessary evil, given the state of local government. We have too many of them, and too many of them never bothered...
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