October 18, 2006 – 1:56 pm
This morning the campaign released a report on Michigan recycling entitled “The Cost of Delay: The Local Price of Obstruction on Michigan Recycling Funding.” I went up to the former site of the Northport Recycling Center, which the county closed last month due to lack of funding, to highlight the fact that we’ve lost out [...]
October 13, 2006 – 9:47 am
Just 25 days until victory on November 7!
I have worked hard to put forward a positive vision for the Michigan we can build together:
- Building on our strengths to bring good-paying, year-round jobs, creating a statewide entrepreneurial culture, investing in technology and renewable energy, and doing much, much more to promote the year-round opportunities for [...]
September 20, 2006 – 10:07 am
A supporter recently passed along a slick campaign mailing produced by my opponent’s legislative office and mailed out at taxpayer expense. As if the fact that we as taxpayers have to pay for his campaign efforts wasn’t enough, the piece actually contains deceptions as to the industry-friendly diversion loopholes that were written into the Water [...]
September 7, 2006 – 10:17 am
Don’t take my word for it. Those are the words of Dr. Howard Tanner, who ran the Michigan DNR under Governor Milliken, speaking tonight at a forum at Benzie Central High School. Dr. Tanner noted that while Michigan used to have an environmental reputation that was second-to-none, our water and air are now getting dirtier, [...]
The Michigan League of Conservation Voters has once again released their legislative scorecard, and once again, my opponent has received a failing grade for consistently voting against measures designed to protect Michigan’s natural heritage. On the eight issues most important to protecting our state’s environment, the Michigan LCV gave my opponent a score of just [...]
Michigan recently reached an unimpressive milestone: we are now the number two importer of trash of all 50 states. Despite posturing and rhetoric on this issue, the Republican-controlled legislature is failing us on this important issue. As the Republicans maintain “Mission Accomplished” on trash, here is the current state of trash in Michigan:
According to the [...]
In 1925, Henry Ford predicted that cars rolling off his assembly lines would someday be fueled by vegetation “like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust – almost anything.” [1] Nearly a century later, renewable, plant-based fuel is on its way to becoming a large-scale reality. This weekend, the Michigan Energy [...]
On Monday, June 12, we held press conferences in Elmwood Township and Scottville announcing our 7-point to Fight for Michigan’s Future. Twenty other press conferences were held across the state as part of our coordinated campaign to retake the State Legislature.
While we have many issues that we will highlight over the course of the campaign, [...]
A new report out from the Michigan Land Use Institute sheds some light on a dangerous loophole in Michigan’s new Water Legacy Act that undermines our state’s ability to secure the future of our Great Lakes. Though there is much to like in the new law, the law contains language that allows for the first [...]
Yesterday, a Canadian trash truck dumped over 15 tons of raw sewage all over I-275 in western Wayne County on its way to dump that human waste in a Michigan landfill. Less than a day before the spill, State House Republicans engaged in yet another round of self-congratulation for solving Michigan’s trash crisis. My question [...]
