Left of Lansing Podcast: Episode 3. Interview with Democratic state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky.
Getting In The Game To Save Michigan’s Education System
Great article by Chalkbeat on new Michigan State Senator Dayna Polehanki. She was a high school English teacher for 17 years, but Trump’s 2016 spurned her to get into Michigan’s political game. She ran. And she won, flipping a Republican district in the southeastern part of the state. State Senator Polehanki’s now trying to slowly…
Left of Lansing Podcast: Episode 2 Is Up!
In this week’s LOL podcast, I talk with Jarrett Skorrup, who is the Director of Marketing and Communications with the conservative Mackinac Center For Public Policy. We debate Right To Work, former Governor Rick Snyder’s legacy, and the conservative movement in Michigan to drain resources away from public schools. However, we find a little common…
Michigan’s “Unabashed Liberal” AG Represents The People
Yes, Donald Trump won by a little more than 10,000 votes in Michigan. But Dana Nessel won by over 100,000 votes to become Michigan’s Attorney General. Sure, the anti-Trump vote didn’t hurt Nessel’s chances, but she never shied away from her progressive record. She promised change and has immediately delivered that change. The AG has…
Glad I’m Not The Only One
Michigan is a state run by rising star Dem women. Our pundit class is almost exclusively old conservative white guys. Expect a lot of primal screams like this for the next four years. https://t.co/497JiwwFwD — Susan J. Demas ? (@sjdemas) February 22, 2019 I talked about this very subject in my “Last Call” in the…
Missing The Point
Attorney General Dana Nessel requested Catholic churches throughout Michigan to stop doing internal investigations into clergy sexual assaults. Nessel announced that the state will continue its inquires into sexual abuse claims against the Catholic church, which started under the previous attorney general’s tenure. Nessel pleaded with witnesses to ask an investigator to “see their badge”…
First Podcast Is Posted! Yay!!!
Fellow Michiganders–and yes, I say “Michiganders”– Click here to hear the first Left of Lansing podcast!!! I talked with Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, in the podcast. We covered how the progressives and progressive causes helped Michigan turn deep blue in the 2018 midterms, and how will Governor Gretchen Whitmer deal with an ultra-conservative state legislature….
When is a dress a dress?
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to Twitter on Thursday to fire back at a Detroit television station that aired a story about the reaction to the blue dress she wore for her Tuesday night State of the State address. In a series of three tweets, she said: “Boys have teased me about my curves since 5th…
Who is Left of Lansing?
This blog serves as a side dish to what is known as the “Left of Lansing” podcast. I’ve been wanting to do my very own podcast focused on progressive politics and pop culture for a long time. And thanks to the help of many, we finally got the podcast off-the-round! As my show voice says…
