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Tag: Michigan Senate

Pure Bamboozle

By Croton Crier, Section News
Posted on Sat Feb 11, 2012 at 03:32:28 PM EST
Tags: Health Care Compact, tea party, principles, Michigan House, Michigan Senate, SB 693, HB 5014, federal funding, e-records, Snydercare, Obamacare, health insurance exchange, health care, republican party platform, free market, socialism, regulation, corporate welfare, state sovereignty, health care freedom, compacts, Obama bucks (all tags)

November 2010 brought great hopes to Michigan. Many new members elected to the MI House and Senate vowed to stop the hemorrhage of debt, regulation, and taxation. Perhaps the greatest hope of freedom loving people was the promise to end Obama care and its unconstitutional overreach into our personal lives.

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Saving the Planet One Public School Child at a Time

By Rougman, Section News
Posted on Thu Dec 17, 2009 at 11:03:38 AM EST
Tags: Michigan Senate, education, environmentalism (all tags)

cross posted at a resistant Rougblog

I would have thought, errantly as it turns out, that at least one member of our esteemed Michigan Senate would have considered getting back to basics in education when looking at the crushed state of our economy and the embarrassing condition of our largest public school district.

Alas, not a peep. Maybe later, but not on this particular vote.

Instead the Senate passed by a unanimous 37-0 tally, a revision to the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act. This is the act that, among other things, encouraged children to monitor the air pressure of school bus tires, to clean the coils of refrigerators and freezers, to caulk around and place plastic on windows, and to lower water heater temperatures by one degree all in the pursuit of an enlightened "Green" rating.

After-gym showers got uncomfortably cold after each member of Mrs. Smith's overcrowded 3rd grade class took a crack at the heater's dial.

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