Monday, August 06, 2007

Tuning In To BFM - What a Week It Was

Well. That was fun. And exhausting.


In case you missed last week, here is the roundup of some of the latest and greatest-


  • ACC Continues To Make Progress In Detroit - Groundbreaking on a new learning center in Detroit


  • Better Know a District...Michigan's 9th! - Jordan will lead the Michigan Democratic Party someday.


  • The wrath of Rick Albin - Rick to Lansing: "You suck".


  • Wrong Michigan Feeds Distortion To MIRS - Wingnuts go after Granholm. Again. They miss.


  • Witness to Riot - "what did the riots really achieve?" - Christine raps up the series on the Detroit Riots of '67. For a look at the whole series, click here.


  • A New Economy Growing In Michigan - Our future starts now.


  • Supporter of no reason absentee ballot does flip-flop - Another Republican buckles to party pressure.


  • Granholm kicks off worker training program, Bishop disapproves, as usual - Governor does good. Bishop doesn't like that.


  • Imports Outsell Big Three in July - We're No. 2! For the first time.

  • Legislature Term Limits Create Openings For Oakland County - Turn Oakland blue!


  • Bruce Patterson: Blame the universities first - Funny thing is that I wasn't even going to do this post because I thought I was being redundant. It set off a firestorm.


  • Michigan Kids, Legislature Both Need to Shape Up - Senator Deb Cherry kicks off a series from the Senate Democrats on legislation they would like to work on. For some reason, Deb had problems accessing the site... which led us to our next big story...


  • BFM Blocked By Mike Bishop, Michigan Senate Not Allowed To Access - Annnnnd we find out we had been censored by Mike Bishop. Many diaries of understandable outrage follow, here, here, here, here, and here. But the best was...


  • Mark Schauer: I Oppose Censorship of Blogs - a visit from Senate Minority Leader Mark Schauer makes my week complete. Does it get any better than that?

  • It might. Stay tuned.