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Added by Noah Fowle on September 30, 2009 at 10:57am — 2 Comments

health care reform Q/A

Check out this article that answers a series of question on health care reform published by the Detroit Free Press. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 29, 2009 at 4:46pm — No Comments

Support for health care reform increasing

According to a new poll support for health care reform is once again trending upwards. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 29, 2009 at 2:24pm — No Comments

Democrats vs Democrats

It seems the Democratic Party is back to its old ways, engaging in some serious infighting regarding the public option in the ongoing health care reform debate. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 29, 2009 at 12:51pm — 5 Comments

Liberal groups attack Sen. Baucus

Liberal groups upset over the lack of a public option in the health care reform plan proposed by Sen. Max Baucus are now running ads against him. This Wall Street Journal article questions whether or not insurance companies will benefit from an individual mandate to… Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 28, 2009 at 3:26pm — 5 Comments

more bad press

Not even the Lions winning could stop the deluge of bad press the city of Detroit receives. Read the latest from Time Magazine here. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 28, 2009 at 1:08pm — 1 Comment

Countdown to Chaos Web site revived

Not exactly a good sign, but the Countdown to Chaos Web sit is back up as Michigan gets ever closer to it's budget deadline. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 22, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Obamacare to lack some promises from campaign

Read the CBS article here. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 21, 2009 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Petoskey childcare workers file lawsuit against DHS

Check out their story in the video below. They are being represented by legal analysts with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

Loar v. DHS from Mackinac Center on Vimeo.

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Added by Noah Fowle on September 17, 2009 at 10:55am — No Comments

lots of requirements in the new health care bill

Republicans counted 84 'requires' in new health care bill. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 16, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

new health care bill in the Senate

Sen. Baucus introduced an $856 billion health care bill in the Senate today. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 16, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Racism fueling Wilson-Obama rift?

There's an interesting piece over at the BBC discussing the race issue that has cropped up in the aftermath of Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie," interruption during President Obama's speech last week. And there's more here on former President Jimmy Carter's remarks that racism is fueling the opposition to Obama. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 16, 2009 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Palin's opinion on health care reform

Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin published this opinion piece on health care reform in the Wall Street Journal recently. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 9, 2009 at 9:35am — 6 Comments

Gov. Graholm release's details on her budget plan

Finally, after all those closed door negotiations I was beginning to think we'd never hear anything about the Michigan budget. But Gov. Granholm released details of her plan last night, including extending the state's sales tax to the tickets sporting and entertainment events and a 1-cent tax on bottled water. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 9, 2009 at 8:21am — No Comments

AP breaks down the public option

The Associated Press has a simple breakdown explaining the debate over a public option. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 8, 2009 at 10:04am — No Comments

Climate change legislation taking back seat to health care

Well, there were few specifics discussed during Sunday's rally but the crowd and speakers voiced their dissatisfaction over cap and trade. So they here is a little good news/bad news that climate change legislation is taking a back seat to the health care reform debate. Check out this Wall Street Journal article to… Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 8, 2009 at 9:59am — 2 Comments

quiet rumblings on Michigan's closed door budget talks

So far little has been released about the closed door budget talks, but this article provides a little sample of what may be to come... Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 8, 2009 at 9:43am — No Comments

The Republican's plan

At the close of Sunday's rally, one audience member asked Rep. Pete Hoekstra whether or not the Republicans had a plan for health care reform. Hoekstra assured him the party did and said their plan involved writing separate bills for each issue within health care reform. Read his recent op-ed piece discussing this idea in detail here. Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 7, 2009 at 11:14am — No Comments

Ashcroft could be sued for post 9/11 arrests

This can't be good for anyone former members of the Bush administration... Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 5, 2009 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Dillon's state worker health care proposal gaining details

New Ideas for Michigan spells out some of the ideas proposed by Speaker of the House Andy Dillon. And there's also a draft version of legislation that would lump all of the state worker's health benefits into a single program. Dillon's draft legislation.pdf Continue

Added by Noah Fowle on September 3, 2009 at 10:52am — 1 Comment