Run, Tony, run! Photo credit: Anne C. Savage Progressive radio show host Tony Trupiano has been recovering from some recent surgery and during this time, I’ve heard whisperings that he is being courted to run for the Michigan House of Representatives in 13th district. This past weekend, I spoke with Tony and have confirmed that he has been approached about […]

Major issues facing public education range from the policy level to classroom practice. Achievement disparities, graduation rates, poverty, standardized education reform, changes in public school funding, online education, teacher evaluations, equal access to quality schools, teacher quality and retention all impact the profession. Of these issues, teacher retention most impacts public education, because teachers are the greatest in-school influence on […]

Oh, this is rich The Michigan Republicans have found a way to solve the problem of “indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved areas of the State”. Is it by offering financial assistance to people without health care? – NO Is it by creating new programs to serve people without health care? – NO Is it by expanding […]

Methinks thou dost protest too much A couple of days ago I reported on a bill Republicans have introduced that requires health insurance providers to tell you what part of your health insurance premium is the result of the Affordable Care Act. As wrote in the piece, this bill requires boilerplate language that the insurance companies must use that says […]

A web of money, power, and deception Earlier this year, I wrote about Lee Fang’s important piece in The Nation magazine titled “The Right Leans In”. In that piece, Fang detailed the pervasive influence of the corporatist network called the State Policy Network (SPN) in shaping public policy in states throughout the country. Funded heavily by corporate interests and wealthy […]

#SaveMI, #SaveHamtownFarms Photo by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog Late last month, I wrote about the amazing Hamtown Farms urban farm in Hamtramck, Michigan. The farm sits on city land that had been vacant for decades. Now that the city is legally able to begin selling off their empty lots, Cathy Square, the Emergency Manager in Hamtramck has swept […]

It’s a team thing… Photo by Chris Savage | Eclectablog AFSCME has been doing a terrific job of being on the front lines, protecting Detroit workers from draconian cuts as the city works through the bankruptcy process. One of the things they have done is to put up the website Stand With Detroit that helps show the human side of […]

Empowering progressives across the state

I was on the Night Shift with Tony Trupiano radio show last night and we had more fun than usual. Tony was in rare form and incredibly flattering about the work we do here at Eclectablog. We covered a wide range of topics from the addition of Michigan Teacher of the Year Gary Abud to Team Eclectablog to Republicans in The Hypocrisy Zone with a little campaign finance reform activism and Tom McMillin grandstanding thrown in.

Enjoy (after the jump.)

Photo by Anne C. Savage, special to Eclectablog Here’s a rundown on how our Michigan Representatives and Senators voted last night on reopening the government and lifting the debt ceiling: SENATE Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin both voted “YES” HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Democrats voting YES John Conyers John Dingell Dan Kildee Sander Levin Gary Peters Republicans voting YES Dan Benishek […]

Eclectablog represent!

As Amy mentioned yesterday, she and I both “appeared” on the Night Shift with Tony Trupiano Show last night. Both of us were pretty fired up about the egregious behavior of the Republican Party which can’t decide if its overlords are the libertarian Tea Partarians or the Corporatists.

Click through for Amy’s flagship “appearance” as well as mine.

Chris Savage — the man himself — and Amy Lynn Smith join ‘Night Shift with Tony Trupiano’ on Thursday night. A quick heads’ up that Chris and I will both be guests on ‘Night Shift with Tony Trupiano’ tonight, October 10. I’ll be on at 7:30ET to discuss my blog post from earlier this week, ‘I’m sick and tired of […]