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115: Episode 82: Transforming the Social Contract with Rx Kids in Flint
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Here&#39;s Episode 82 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

It&#39;s another week.

That means it&#39;s another episode of the Republican Crime Syndicate!

Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel announced several charges against former Michigan Republican state House Speaker Lee Chatfield, and his wife, Stephanie, for operating a criminal enterprise! Just like Chatfield&#39;s hero, Dear Leader Trump, he...
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114: Friday Short: Making Michigan Charter Schools Accountable Is Long Overdue
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s LoL &quot;Friday Short&quot; for this April 12, 2024.

The Michigan Board of Education passed a resolution this week asking the Democratic majority in the state legislature to pass laws requiring more transparency and accountability when it comes to charter schools.

For years, charter schools haven&#39;t had to play by the same rules as public schools when it comes to accountability, even...
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113: Episode 81: Don&#39;t Believe the Hype on Corporate Subsidies w/ Bridge Magazine&#39;s Paula Gardner
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Here&#39;s Episode 81 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

On this week&#39;s episode, Pat talks about &quot;Florida&quot; Mike Rogers&#39; audacity to run for Michigan&#39;s open Senate seat this Fall even though he hasn&#39;t lived in this state for years (because he wanted to make lobbying cash), and he&#39;s registered to vote in both Florida and Michigan (https://www.newsweek.com/michigan-republican-candidate-living...
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112: Episode 80: Michigan Republicans Shill For Fascism in Grand Rapids
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Here&#39;s Episode 80 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

This week, Pat takes the Michigan Republicans to task, and the handful of right-wing Michigan sheriffs, who stood on stage with Donald Trump this week in Grand Rapids. Trump showed-up in our state to exploit the death of Ruby Garcia, who was shot and killed by someone she knew. The alleged killer is an illegal immigrant, and that&#39;s a...
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111: Friday Short: The Maddocks are an embarrassment to Michigan
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Time for the LoL &quot;Friday Short&quot; on this March 29, 2024

Michigan Republican State Rep. Matt Maddock baselessly claimed on &quot;X&quot; that buses at Detroit Metro Airport were filled with &quot;illegal invaders! (https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/rep-maddock-decried-illegal-invaders-at-the-detroit-airport-they-were-college-basketball-players-arriving-for-the-sweet-16/) &quot; The only problem with such a claim? ...
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110: Episode 79: Time for Transformational Change w/ Lou Glazer of Michigan Future, Inc.
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It&#39;s episode 79 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast with the award-winning Pat Johnston!

Pat&#39;s guest this week is Lou Glazer from Michigan Future, Inc (https://michiganfuture.org/) ., which is a nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization that focuses on helping Michigan succeed in a knowledge-based economy. And as Lou says, Michigan Future is also trying to make Michigan a more prosperous s...
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short.&quot;

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel&#39;s office argued in a federal appellate court (https://michiganadvance.com/2024/03/21/michigan-attorney-general-argues-line-5-lawsuit-should-be-sent-back-to-state-court/) that the fight to shut down the Line 5 oil pipeline belongs in a state court, and not in federal court.

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Welcome to Episode 78 of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Podcast!

Democratic State Representative, and House Majority Whip, Ranjeev Puri (https://housedems.com/ranjeev-puri/) talks with Pat on a host of issues, including some key bills he helped pass the state legislature last year, such as gun safety, clean energy and climate bills, water filtration in schools and daycare centers, and more. Th...
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s LoL Friday Short!

Members of the Michigan Republican &quot;Freedom Caucus&quot; in the State House introduced a resolution to censure House Speaker Joe Tate (https://michiganadvance.com/2024/03/05/michigan-freedom-caucus-members-want-to-censure-speaker-tate/) .

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106: Episode 77: TikTok Ban, MAGA Violence, &amp; Right Wing Cognitive Dissonance
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Here&#39;s Episode 77 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Vote on this week&#39;s Left of Lansing Online Poll (https://twitter.com/LeftOfLansing/status/1768136211967639877) via Twitter or X: Does Social Media help or hurt the political process?

On this week&#39;s show, Pat talks about how Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt&#39;s ridiculous and disturbing State of the Union response showed how the ...
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I continue my examination into the different aspects of White Christian Nationalism by concentrating on Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt&#39;s response (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTfK6r9WrQE) to President Joe Biden&#39;s strong State Of The Union address this week.

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104: Episode 76: The History of White Christian Nationalism w/ Dr. Sara Moslener
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It&#39;s episode 76 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Lots of material in this week&#39;s episode, including Pat&#39;s examination of new Michigan GOP chair Pete Hoekstra&#39;s record as a former congressman, ambassador, Tea Party founder, Trump-backer, and lobbyist. Sure, Pete Hoekstra doesn&#39;t believe in demonic possession unlike his predecessor (at least, he hasn&#39;t publicly said he does) but there&#39;...
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s LoL Short on the how the GOP is all-in on a national abortion ban.

Thanks to Distill Social for providing a video clip when they spoke with MAGA supporters (https://www.instagram.com/p/C3nLcaYOWYP/) before a recent Trump rally in Waterford, MI.

Republicans try to minimize and hide their true intentions when it comes to abortion care. But as the Alabama Supreme Court ruling ...
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102: Episode 75: Polluter Pay 2.0 w/ Sean McBrearty of Clean Water Action Michigan
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Here&#39;s the 75th episode of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast.

We&#39;ve covered the ways Michigan Democrats are protecting the state&#39;s environment, and building a cleaner and more affordable energy future for both our environment and economy. Democrats also repealed the &quot;No stricter than federal&quot; law (https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2023-07-28/no-stricter-than-federa...
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s LoL Friday Short!

Last week, the Christian Nationalist Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embroys used in in vitro fertilization are &quot;children.&quot;

This is just another step in the attack on women&#39;s reproductive rights.

It&#39;s just not a national abortion ban these extremists are pushing. They want a ban on contraception, IVF, and also a ban on recreational sex.

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Here&#39;s episode 74 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

As we&#39;ve seen in our state, elections have consequences, especially on the state and local state side! I talk about how within a year, Michigan Democrats passed some much-needed legislation to move the state forward in terms of women&#39;s reproductive rights, worker rights, union rights, setting-up a robust clean energy future, and prot...
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short.&quot;

Michigan Republican State Representative Josh Shriver was stripped of his committee assignments, and of his staff, after retweeting a racist tweet on the &quot;Great Replacement Theory,&quot; which pervades the radical, right wing world.

Naturally, Shriver&#39;s got his online defenders, but also defenders within the Michigan Republican Party. But make no ...
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Here&#39;s Episode 73 of Michigan&#39;s Premier, Progressive Podcast!

As we&#39;ve covered on the show, Michigan Democrats passed a rather robust package of clean energy bills last year. Many of those laws will go into effect later this year, including the 100% clean energy standard by 2040, energy efficient programs, increases in the state&#39;s energy reduction program, and removing the power of local gover...
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Here&#39;s episode 72 of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Podcast!

In my opening segment this week, I talk about the appalling and Islamophobic Wall Street Journal column declaring Dearborn, MI as the &quot;America&#39;s Jihad Capital.&quot; Islamophobia within the right wing world never left, and it&#39;s putting lives in danger. I then cover some of the many new laws scheduled to go into effect in the state on Febr...
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96: Friday Short: How Is Rashida Tlaib Raising Over $3 Million in Campaign Donations? Easy. By Standing Up For People 
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s LoL Friday Short.

It&#39;s being reported this week that Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has raised nearly $4-million in campaign contributions in the last three months. That&#39;s despite House Republicans censuring her last Fall for her stance against Israel&#39;s bombardment of the Gaza Strip. And that&#39;s despite being hung-out to dry by some in her own party.

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95: Episode 71: Interview w/ Susan Demas of Michigan Advance
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Here&#39;s episode 71 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Please vote on this week&#39;s LoL Twitter Poll (https://twitter.com/LeftOfLansing/status/1752711976138977691) : What is the biggest winning issue for Michigan Democrats heading into the November election? If you have others, leave them in replies

Susan Demas, Editor-in-Chief of Michigan Advance (https://michiganadvance.com/) , joins Pa...
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Thanks for listening to this week&#39;s LoL Friday Short!

The Justice Department released a damning report citing &quot;cascading failures (https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-justice-department-report-police-16b59efa5c5015d685d917c3f0f26256) &quot; in the way authorities handled the Uvaldi school shooting massacre in 2022. Like other school shootings, this was another example where &quot;good guys...
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Here&#39;s episode 70 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Please vote on this week&#39;s poll question (https://twitter.com/LeftOfLansing/status/1748022630874013950) : Polls show President Biden&#39;s losing to Donald Trump in Michigan. How do you feel about these numbers less than 10 months from Election Day?

On this week&#39;s episode, I cover how Democrats across the country have been given a beaut...
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Here&#39;s this week&#39;s LoL Friday Short.

Michigan Democrats are hoping to make the new and popular free public school breakfast and lunch program a permanent fixture in the education budget.

But that&#39;s making the right wing furious, not because of their daily abject cruelty, but because they know the program is a big hit with voting age parents. Also, they know a successful programs such as this ...
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Here&#39;s Episode 69 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

I&#39;m thrilled to have Democratic State Representative, and Speaker Pro Tempore, Laurie Pohutsky back on the show this week! We cover a range of topics including abortion rights, clean energy and climate change, if the Michigan Democratic Party&#39;s messaging machine is improving, the establishment and progressive factions of the party, a...
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My first Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short&quot; for 2024 deals with GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley&#39;s failure to flat-out say the American Civil War was fought over the right for Southern states to continue the practice of slavery.

But there&#39;s a reason why Haley couldn&#39;t give a straight answer to that simple question. She, like all of her Republican cohorts, are afraid of angering and losing th...
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89: Episode 68: Michigan&#39;s Right Wing Is Working To Erase History
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Happy New Year, and here&#39;s Episode 68 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

This week, I have lots to say after taking some time-off for the holidays.

We have to cover the hypocrisy of Michigan&#39;s right wing, in particular the Christian Nationalist Moms For Liberty chapters throughout the state. As you&#39;ll hear, while they&#39;ve been busy banning books, intimidating teachers, and trying to di...
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88: Friday Short: Progressive Policies Are Popular Pro-Worker &amp; Pro-Growth Policies
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Here&#39;s the final LoL &quot;Friday Short&quot; for 2023!

To close-out the year, I talk about a story in Michigan Advance (https://michiganadvance.com/2023/11/30/business-groups-band-together-to-counter-risky-economic-proposals-advanced-by-democrats/) which details how business lobbyists formed a coalition in the hopes of stifling bills proposed by Michigan Democrats.

These business lobbyists fail to und...
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87: Episode 67: Kasey Helton and the Michigan &quot;Dirt Road Democrats&quot;
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Here&#39;s the 67th, and the final episode for 2023, on Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Livingston County progressive activist Kasey Helton returns to the podcast this week as we discuss how &quot;dirt road&quot; Democrats are trying to move the political needle towards the progressive side in rural Michigan. And we&#39;ve seen some of that hard work pay-off with Democrats winning some key races in Livi...
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86: Friday Short: Michigan Energy &quot;Regulators&quot; Give Big Energy Another Win Over The People
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Listen to this week&#39;s Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short.&quot;

Right after its inexplicable decision to build a tunnel around the Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, the Michigan Public Service Commission granted DTE Energy&#39;s rate hike request totalling over $360 million.

Despite DTE being part of the reason why Michigan has the most expensive energy in the Midwest, and is also one of the ...
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85: Episode 66: Pushing The Overton Window w/ Democratic State Rep. Emily Dievendorf
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It&#39;s Episode 66 of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Podcast!

This week, I can&#39;t hold back my disdain for the Michigan Public Service Commission&#39;s decision to green-light an expensive, and short-sighted, tunnel project for the stretch of the 70-year old Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. Despite studies showing why the pipeline must stop operating, and that shutting-down the pipeline...
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Listen to this week&#39;s Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short,&quot; where I highlight a major UAW organizational push to attract thousands of non-union workers with other automakers.

Also, notice again how Republicans across the board are AWOL when it comes to standing up for workers&#39; rights.

Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you can!

–Pat

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Here&#39;s episode 65 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed some long overdue, albeit imperfect, clean energy legislation into law this week. I&#39;ve covered the path The Clean Energy and Jobs Act had to take in Lansing throughout the year on the podcast. And while I believe Democrats missed an opportunity to pass some meaningful, and stronger, progres...
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82: Episode 64: Pro-Publica&#39;s Anna Clark on Eliminating Michigan&#39;s Emergency Manager Law.
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Here&#39;s episode 64 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

It&#39;s great to have author and Pro-Publica reporter Anna Clark (https://www.propublica.org/people/anna-clark) back on Left of Lansing this week. Anna&#39;s written an insightful article on Michigan&#39;s Emergency Manager Law, which allows state government to erase democracy by completely taking-over financially-strapped cities. Anna highligh...
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Listen to my &quot;Monday Musing,&quot; in which I agree with a Detroit Free Press column by Michael Griffie, who serves as Detroit Metro Leader for AECOM--an American multinational consulting firm.

Mr. Griffie is pressing the need for a massive reinvestment in Michigan&#39;s lacking mass transit system, particularly in the entire Metro Detroit region.

If we&#39;re going to stop Michigan&#39;s brain and population...
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Listen to my LoL &quot;Friday Short&quot; on while the Michigan Democrats&#39; clean energy bills are indeed imperfect, they mark an important step towards much-needed changes in the state&#39;s energy and economic future.

Yes, the bills fall short in many areas, like considering natural gas &quot;clean energy,&quot; and ignoring environmental justice provisions to help those in low-income areas affected the most by year...
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79: Episode 63: No More Waiting For Environmental Justice w/ Roshan Krishnan of The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
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Here&#39;s Episode 63 of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Podcast!

Michigan Democrats passed a package of clean energy and affordable energy bills last week. While these bills are for sure a step in the right direction in revamping our antiquated energy grid, these bills still fall far short of the aggressive push many progressives were hoping would happen. Joining me this week to talk more about th...
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The Left of Lansing Friday Short this week applauds a trio of state Senate Democrats (Mary Cavenagh of Redford Twp. (https://senatedems.com/cavanagh/bio/) , Kevin Hertel of St. Clair Shores (https://senatedems.com/hertel/bio/) , and Veronica Klinefelt of Eastpoint (https://senatedems.com/klinefelt/bio/) ) for introducing the Death with Dignity Act (https://senatedems.com/cavanagh/2023/11/09/ref...
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77: Episode 62: MAGA Keeps Losing On Abortion Rights, and My Defense of Rashida Tlaib
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It&#39;s episode 62 of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Podcast!

MAGA Republicans suffered another beatdown at the polls this past Election Day, and once again, abortion rights proved to be the key reason. Abortion rights scored a major victory in Ohio, and played a major role in Democrats retaining the Virginia state legislature. Yet, MAGA is doubling-down on putting government in-between a woman a...
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In this week&#39;s &quot;Monday Musing,&quot; I discuss an amendment introduced by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Green would block the removal of monuments.

MTG and her MAGA allies are outraged Charlottesville, Virginia decided to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. That statue was the focus of what led to the killing of a protester by a right wing terrorist in Charlottesville b...
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75: LOL Friday Short: No Justice In Flint Water Crisis
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My Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short&quot; covers a sad ending to the Flint Water Crisis, in which not one public official will face prosecution for their role in one of the greatest man-made disasters the state of Michigan, and the country, has ever experienced.

Former Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder won&#39;t have to face any kind of punishment for the crisis he and his administration caused. Meanwh...
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Welcome to Episode 61 of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Politics!

This week, I breakdown how the right wing Republican Party has always worked on behalf of the elite class to eliminate government assistance for working Americans. They&#39;ve done it by whittling-down the New Deal and Great Society programs through the years, and they&#39;ve done it using racist tropes, like the mythic &quot;welfare queen.&quot;...
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73: LoL Friday Short: A Victory For Tolerance &amp; Education
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The Left of Lansing Friday Short this week celebrates a judge&#39;s ruling in which he dismissed a lawsuit over so-called &quot;pornographic&quot; books in Kent County&#39;s Rockford Public Schools District.

A right-wing Christian Nationalist group wanted to ban 14 books, most of which dealt with LGBTQ+ stories. The judge ruled the books as a whole have literary value.

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72: Left of Lansing Ep. 60: Update on Michigan Climate Bills with NRDC&#39;s Derrell Slaughter
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It&#39;s episode #60 of Michigan&#39;s premier progressive podcast!

Michigan Democrats continue working on clean and affordable energy bills in the state legislature. They must get some of these bills passed before the November adjournment date, or else everything will get pushed back until next year. The main goals of these bills are to make Michigan caborn-free by 2035 or 2040, pushing for strong en...
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71: Left of Lansing&#39;s &quot;Monday Musings.&quot; MI Democrats&#39; plan to stop local MAGA governments from blocking clean energy farms
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Listen to my inaugural Left of Lansing &quot;Monday Musings!&quot;

I talk about how local Maga governments throughout Michigan are fighting against solar and wind farms in their areas. Democrats have proposed one solution to remedy this problem: put the state in control of large scale clean energy projects, which overrides a local government&#39;s powers.

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70: LoL Friday Short: Democrats working to abolish Snyder&#39;s &quot;Polluter Panels&quot;
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Here&#39;s the LoL Friday Short on this October 20th, of 2023

Democrats in the Michigan Legislature have introduced bills to abolish former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder&#39;s &quot;Polluter Panels.&quot;
 (https://michiganadvance.com/2023/10/19/enviros-testify-in-favor-of-eliminating-ineffective-environmental-review-boards/?emci=9156ed9a-236f-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&amp;emdi=4dd36f72-2f6f-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&amp;ceid=...
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It&#39;s the 59th episode of Michigan&#39;s Premier Progressive Podcast!

My returning guest this week is Michigan Democratic State Rep. Dylan Wegela (https://housedems.com/dylan-wegela/) from the 26th House District. We talk about his plans to thwart the state&#39;s two main utility companies--DTE &amp; Consumers Energy--from using dark money to influence Lansing, especially at a time when Michiganders want o...
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The Left of Lansing &quot;Friday Short&quot; this week puts a spotlight on UAW President Shawn Fain&#39;s effective messaging campaign during the union&#39;s strike against the Big Three Detroit automakers.

Fain isn&#39;t allowing right wing forces, including the Republican Party or Donald Trump, to pit worker against worker, or the union against environmentalists.

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67: Episode 58: The UAW &amp; Workers&#39; Rights w/ Sarah Lazare of Workers Magazine
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In my opening segment, I discuss the lunacy of Livingston County Republicans, and why some GOP state representatives voted against a bill delivering clean water to schools and day care centers. Seems like an odd strategy, but let&#39;s see how it&#39;ll work out for them! Plus, I talk about the need for Michigan Democrats to keep pressing for passage...
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My Friday Left of Lansing Short is on Democratic State Representative Dylan Wegela&#39;s (https://housedems.com/dylan-wegela/) efforts on stopping the dark money influence DTE and Consumers Energy utilizes in Lansing.

Rep. Wegela outlined (https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/10/02/dte-power-outages-michigan-campaign/70983149007/) how he intends to do that by introducing a bill pr...
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