Last week, I kicked off my campaign with a four-day tour throughout the district where I visited high schools and early childhood centers, toured downtown business districts, met with local business men and women, top conservation officials, and small family farmers.
We have a lot of work to do to turn our state around, but also [...]
The Traverse City Record-Eagle is today reporting that officials from Kalkaska’s Downtown Development Authority are planning to approach Nestle Waters about building another bottled water plant in Northwest Michigan, this one taking water that feeds the Manistee River.
This debate, which is possible because of the so-called Water Legacy Act that opened up Michigan’s publicly-owned lakes, [...]
January 23, 2007 – 1:00 pm
Last weekend, while visiting Jamie in the surprising cold of Washington D.C. in winter, I couldn’t help but be reminded of another cold January day in our nation’s capital, January 20, 1961, the day President Kennedy took the oath of office.
Nearly fifty years later, Kennedy’s words that day still ring true. While there are many [...]
November 8, 2006 – 1:05 pm
After a long campaign and a late night, the results are finally in. I want to personally thank the 20,132 of you that gave me your vote yesterday, as well as all the others outside the 101st District who contributed so much to this result.
In the end, however, we fell just short. I called David [...]
August 29, 2006 – 10:23 am
Two announcements this week helped move Michigan forward on the path to leading the country in alternative energy innovation, production, and distribution. Yesterday, Governor Granholm announced $500,000 in grants to convert 1,000 Michigan fuel pumps to bio-diesel or ethanol by 2008. And on Monday the governor announced that The Venture Michigan Fund I has $200 [...]
Last week, Governor Granholm signed a package of legislation that moves Michigan forward on the path to becoming a global leader for alternative and renewable energy. The legislation reduces the gas tax by 36% on ethanol-based fuel and by 20% on biodiesel, as well as providing incentives for service stations that carry these renewable fuels. [...]
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 [...]
In 1973, in a signing ceremony to reduce the inequalities how Michigan schools were funded, then-Governor William G. Milliken remarked that “It is wrong that the wealth of a school district should affect … the quality of education a child receives.” Thirty-three years later, too many of our rural school districts still face blatant geographic [...]
Earlier this week the campaign announced that the UAW Community Action Program (UAW-CAP) and the Leelanau Independent Women for Democratic Action (LIWDA) both gave me their unanimous endorsement in my race in the 101st District.
These endorsements – from groups that include a broad cross-section of voters in Northwest Michigan – show just how well people [...]
February 13, 2006 – 3:02 pm
Last week, the State House voted to pass the Water Legacy Act, making Michigan the last of the Great Lakes states to live up to a 1985 agreement to limit large-scale water diversions. While the Act represents a first step on this issue, no one who is truly committed to protecting our Great Lakes can [...]
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