Here’s the 38th episode of Left of Lansing! Coming back to the podcast is veteran business writer, Rick Haglund. He writes the “Micheconomy” on Michigan Advance, and has been covering the state’s economy, and the auto industry, since the 1980’s. We talk about Michigan’s population problem in which not only are people leaving, but we’re…
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Left Of Lansing Podcast–Episode 32: Michigan Democrats Provide A Blueprint For Electoral and Political Success
Here’s this week’s podcast! I share my thoughts on how Michigan Democrats are wasting zero time trying to right the 40 years of right-wing Republican mismanagement. It took a long time for Democrats to get here, but thanks to years of hard work by progressive activists, and those within the Democratic Party, Democrats pulled-off the…
Michigan GOP Hoping People Forget How We Got Here
State Republicans are trying their best to paint Governor Whitmer as a big-city-loving lawmaker who despises those of us who live in rural areas. The playbook has been used for years by Republicans, including the 2016 election. But as Rick Haglund writes in Michigan Advance, it’s kind of rich for Michigan Republicans to play this…
Raising Taxes On Michigan Businesses Won’t Bring On The Armageddon
So says Michigan Advance’s business writer, and friend of the LOL podcast, Rick Haglund. Governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposing a 6% income tax increase on small businesses. Business groups and Republicans are warning of economic peril if Whitmer gets her way. But Haglund refutes critics of the tax increase proposal by saying: Nonsense. None of…
Left Of Lansing Podcast: Episode 5–Rick Haglund from Michigan Advance
Here’s Episode 5 of the Left of Lansing podcast! This week, Rick Haglund joins us to talk Michigan economics. Rick is the business columnist for the fantastic Michigan Advance news site. I’m telling you, check it out. They do some awesome work over there. I talk about how conservatism is no longer based on solid…
