Not sure about the Ballot Proposal that would change Ann Arbor’s voting system? Widely promoted as a progressive approach that could help de-polarize politics, it has a lot of promise. At a recent membership meeting, proponents Ron Zimmerman and Lisa Disch laid...
The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission will conduct two meetings on Thursday, September 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Gold Rooms of the Oakland Center, located at 312 Meadow Brook Road in Rochester. Oakland University...
The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission will meet from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. September 14, in the Lake Huron Room of the Michigan State University Union, located at 49 Abbot Road in East Lansing. All individuals are required to wear face masks indoors....
The census data is in, and it’s time to determine County Commission district lines. This is decided by a commission including the County Clerk, Treasurer and Prosecutor, with the heads of the County Democratic and Republican Parties.There will be three open...
It feels so good to get out there again! And we need YOU to help inform people about the work we do together, and about the peril our democracy is in from voter suppression measures in Lansing. You’ll talk to people, give out buttons and literature, and receive...
On July 7, the Washtenaw County Commission will consider a resolution to ask the WashCo Juvenile Courts to eliminate all discretionary and waivable juvenile court fines and fees. Michigan juvenile courts are permitted, and in some cases required, to charge and collect...
There has been a lot of attention paid to the 39 Republican Party bills related to voting and elections in response to the huge voter turnout in 2020. Among the most talked about bills are ones that add barriers to voting such as more unreasonable ID requirements,...
The bill to help protect care for auto accident victims with permanent injuries is sadly stuck in the Michigan House of Representatives Insurance Committee and the deadline is only 1 ½ weeks away. We’ve called on this issue previously, in fact, just last week, and...
We need more “good guys with guns” is a popular slogan from opponents of gun safety laws. If you are a legislator who accepts that premise, wouldn’t you then want to be sure that the people with guns are actually “good guys”? Yet, currently, Michigan law only requires...
For thousands of auto accident victims and their families, Michigan’s no-fault insurance system was a saving grace, providing essential lifetime care and access to needed therapies and treatments. Sadly, Michigan’s new auto insurance “reform” package, passed in 2019,...
The Michigan Education Justice Coalition (MEJC) is requesting citizens’ votes on how to spend stimulus funds on our schools, with this note: The Federal government has approved $6 billion dollars for Michigan to use to help schools deal with the crises they face from...
We now know that Heritage Action, one of the Republican Party’s largest dark-money groups, brags privately about its ability to write voter-suppression bills for the states; we also know that major corporations — including Google, Citigroup, Deloitte, TIAA-CREF,...
