|
4/16/2024 |
City attorney can't seem
to
deliver FOIAed materials |
|
4/5/2024 |
Board of Water and Light:
2023 employee wages |
|
3/8/2024 |
City of Lansing
payroll exposed! |
|
1/7/2024 |
Taxpayers bail out underfunded
CADL pension fund |
|
|
|
|
12/11/2023 |
Complicit in mass murder |
|
10/28/2023 |
Lansing gets $11,551,892
state grant |
|
10/25/2023 |
Lansing has beavers |
|
9/19/2023 |
After 30 years, half of
1992 early retirees still drawing pension |
|
8/21/2023 |
Ethics complaint
against state official to get hearing |
|
7/31/2023 |
Smiertka tries to
deceive city
council |
|
6/27/2023 |
Schor's leadership fund |
|
5/11/2020 |
City of Lansing 2022 Payroll |
|
4/26/2023 |
Code Compliance relies on neighbor
ratting out neighbor |
|
4/20/2023 |
Union, Democratic
leaders go after public employees |
|
4/17/2023 |
Nessel defends violation
of the Open Meetings Act |
|
4/11/2023 |
Revenge of the Democrats |
|
4/5/2023 |
Democrats want taxpayers
to fund unions |
|
3/15/2023 |
CATA employee wages for
2022 |
|
2/4/2023 |
Board of Water and Light:
2022 employee wages |
|
|
|
|
12/31/2022 |
The letter to the
editor that inspired Michigan's pension tax and created $4.7 billion in
revenue (so far) |
|
12/1/2022 |
City attorney interfered,
lied in Tammie Arend case |
|
11/2/2022 |
Despicable city employees |
|
10/19/2022 |
O'Boyle email gets nothing
right; Castillo terrorizes Lansing's east side |
|
10/18/2022 |
A win for the people: attorney-client privilege
claim rejected |
|
10/14/2022 |
Minimal services for homeless
adults at Holy Cross |
|
10/3/2022 |
BWL employee wages for
2021 |
|
9/16/2022 |
City attorney
violates state law |
|
8/30/2022 |
A witness to Tammie
Arend's situation |
|
8/26/2022 |
Development Office
bullshits City Council |
|
8/22/2022 |
City attorney needs 3
weeks to find email from assistant city attorney |
|
8/11/2022 |
City lies to HUD;
Lansing Mayor Schor should resign |
|
8/8/2022 |
Inspector misses Tammie Arend's
roof ventilation problem |
|
8/3/2022 |
Estimate for repair of
botched roof replacement: $150,000 |
|
7/15/2022 |
Lansing's Development
Office: incompetent, corrupt or both? |
|
7/10/2022 |
Scott Frederickson
ruins Lansing home, City pays him $12,900 |
|
6/30/2022 |
John Kelsey exonerated by
victim's father |
|
6/22/2022 |
HUD slaps
Lansing's Development Office |
|
6/9/2022 |
New study of Lansing's
troubled fire department |
|
6/2/2022 |
What doesn't
cause inflation |
|
5/16/2022 |
The Case Against Collective
Bargaining |
|
4/6/2022 |
Shame on the West for not
defending Ukraine |
|
3/27/2022 |
Why we need direct
democracy |
|
3/5/2022 |
We need to join
the fight for Ukraine |
|
1/30/2022 |
Whitmer to spend
$half billion on tax break for wealthy |
|
|
|
|
12/21/2021 |
Tammie won't last another
winter |
|
12/15/2021 |
Dumb exemption to Freedom
of Information Act |
|
12/9/2021 |
How to evict a
tenant without going to court |
|
11/19/2021 |
Are Schor's advisory board
actions legal without minutes? |
|
11/16/2021 |
How to stop inflation |
|
11/13/2021 |
Stabenow: Only
union workers are "hard-working" |
|
11/4/2021 |
Transparency lacking with
Mayor's Neighborhood Advisory Board |
|
10/25/2021 |
Schor campaign has
$222,153.49 to spend |
|
10/23/2021 |
Andy Schor: For the people
or the unions? |
|
9/30/2021 |
John Kelsey nears 7 years
in prison |
|
8/23/2021 |
Who's in charge here, the people or
the unions? |
|
8/9/2021 |
Former chief Green's
salary + pension = $235,000 |
|
7/30/2021 |
Schor is a lousy mayor,
but a great campaigner |
|
7/20/2021 |
Retirement board
meeting minutes gone missing |
|
7/18/2021 |
The upside of coronavirus |
|
6/30/2021 |
Ambulance service
is a
revenue source for cities |
|
6/22/2021 |
Schor is a master at
raising money |
|
6/12/2021 |
I was wrong about FOIA
appeals |
|
6/6/2021 |
Andy Schor isn't fit to be
mayor |
|
6/1/2021 |
Plumber finds
more damage from roof replacement |
|
4/5/2021 |
CATA promptly provides 2020
salary info |
|
3/29/2021 |
Lansing City Attorney mishandles FOIA appeals |
|
3/16/2021 |
City denies access to employee
wage info |
|
2/28/2021 |
The persecution of Tammie
Arend |
|
2/26/2021 |
Lansing fumbles FOIA
requests |
|
2/2/2021 |
Bernero forced campaign staffers
to commit perjury |
|
1/30/2021 |
Bernero is back! |
|
|
|
|
12/22/2020 |
Defect may have caused
crash that killed Deputy Grant Whitaker |
|
12/5/2020 |
Police unions bite
Democrats |
|
11/27/2020 |
Unethical practices at Wickstrom drug rehabs |
|
11/18/2020 |
City Development Office
has another unhappy customer |
|
11/13/2020 |
Trump's ridiculous trade wars |
|
10/24/2020 |
Michigan: Let's ban open
carry |
|
10/21/2020 |
BWL employees continue to
get paid to leave |
|
10/13/2020 |
Republicans resist
ban on guns in Capitol |
|
10/7/2020 |
Your authority on
collective bargaining |
|
10/5/2020 |
Botched roof replacement
ruins Lansing home |
|
9/27/2020 |
Protect the unborn: vote
for the rapist |
|
8/24/2020 |
BWL union members get $500
to extend contract |
|
8/14/2020 |
2019 BWL employee wages...and
some questions |
|
7/31/2020 |
Beware
of the Board of Water and Light |
|
7/27/2020 |
$86,810 pension supplements
$112,905 salary |
|
7/24/2020 |
FOIA does not
require a public body to answer questions |
|
7/16/2020 |
Schor spent
$24,650 from 527 account in one day |
|
7/12/2020 |
We're going to need a wealth tax |
|
6/22/2020 |
Subsequent legislation ruins
Michigan's pension
tax |
|
6/17/2020 |
Most police and firefighters
avoid pension tax |
|
6/8/2020 |
Police unions stand in way of
reform |
|
5/30/2020 |
I saved Michigan
$320 $500 million a year
(about $4.2 billion so far) |
|
5/18/2020 |
Repeal the Public Employment Relations
Act |
|
5/2/2020 |
Give that $2400 to someone who needs it |
|
4/14/2020 |
I just signed a petition online! |
|
3/24/2020 |
Where will that $2 trillion come from? |
|
3/21/2020 |
The 2nd Amendment doesn't keep
government from limiting gun ownership |
|
2/1/2020 |
Pay for 7 police union executives
exceeds $100,000 |
|
1/28/2020 |
Police union is in bed with
telemarketer |
|
1/20/2020 |
Lansing's
unfunded pension liabilities grow by $27.2 million |
|
1/16/2020 |
Lansing
firefighter fights termination |
|
|
|
|
12/10/2019 |
42 years ago: Gene Weingarten in
Lansing |
|
12/7/2019 |
Trump donor/Scientologist owes IRS over
$1 million |
|
12/3/2019 |
City council
ratifies "tentative" labor contracts |
|
11/13/2019 |
TLO gives Lansing police
access to a lot of information |
|
11/11/2019 |
Schor finally submits a real 527 report to
IRS |
|
11/1/2019 |
Melinn questions Schlichting's stated
reason for resigning |
|
10/30/2019 |
Public access to City of Lansing labor
contracts |
|
10/28/2019 |
Lansing city council campaign
contributions |
|
10/11/2019 |
Two civic organizations lose City
of Lansing recognition |
|
10/7/2019 |
Union contract supersedes city charter |
|
10/1/2019 |
Let's put some new people on Lansing
city council |
|
9/1/2019 |
Stop tax subsidies for criminal
religious organizations |
|
8/4/2019 |
City council campaign finance reports |
|
7/22/2019 |
MERS denies FOIA
request for Rick Jones' pension amount |
|
7/11/2019 |
Blame Carol Wood for $700 million
pension/retiree health care funding shortfall |
|
6/30/2019 |
Michigan Supreme Court decision
on retiree health care backs Lansing City Attorney |
|
6/5/2019 |
Pensioners Rick Jones, Tom Reich vie for Eaton sheriff job |
|
4/30/2019 |
City Council members Wood and Spitzley must
be replaced |
|
4/27/2019 |
CATA's retiree health care system is underfunded |
|
4/14/2019 |
More CATA transparency: Fringe benefits for CATA employees |
|
4/6/2019 |
Raise money for roads by increasing the
income tax rate |
|
3/27/2019 |
$600 billion stolen from U.S. taxpayers
yearly |
|
3/14/2019 |
Wage transparency at CATA |
|
3/8/2019 |
Open Letter from Former Lansing Fire
Chief Randall Talifarro |
|
3/6/2019 |
The rest of us
will pay for pension tax repeal |
|
2/15/2019 |
John Kelsey is serving a 20-year
sentence for a 2-year offense |
|
1/25/2019 |
IAFF controls Lansing fire department |
|
1/15/2019 |
Free those unlucky enough to get
caught |
|
1/4/2019 |
We don't need no
stinkin' legislature |
|
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|
12/23/2018 |
Bill drafted to allow
Ranked Choice
Voting in Michigan |
|
12/8/2018 |
Trump win in 2016 may have been due to
voter suppression |
|
12/4/2018 |
Republicans are a bigger threat to
democracy than Russia |
|
11/21/2018 |
Get the attorney-client privilege
exemption out of the FOIA |
|
10/26/2018 |
Pension discrepancies need to be
explained |
|
10/21/2018 |
No legal basis for City's attorney-client privilege
claim |
|
9/25/2018 |
Failed FOIA lawsuit costs me $3,376.62 |
|
8/15/2018 |
"Hooker" Rossman-McKinney wants to
replace "loser" Rick Jones |
|
8/8/2018 |
Policies proposed 10 years ago have
been realized |
|
7/25/2018 |
Get retiree health care insurance out of
the collective bargaining process |
|
7/20/2018 |
McIntyre disagreed with Bernero on
retiree health insurance premiums |
|
6/24/2018 |
Drug rehab fraud in Michigan |
|
6/12/2018 |
Another City of
Lansing retiree starts second career |
|
4/11/2018 |
Overkill: Candidate Schor outspent Brown Clarke
by over $200,000 |
|
3/31/2018 |
Ranked choice voting would have kept
out Macomb's unfit clerk |
|
3/19/2018 |
Prevailing wage is
not good for
Michigan |
|
3/9/2018 |
My continuing pursuit of true pension
amounts |
|
2/2/2018 |
Ranked Choice Voting for Lansing? |
|
1/24/2018 |
Police union rips off senior citizens |
|
1/17/2018 |
The policeman is not your friend |
|
1/7/2018 |
How the state can help local
governments with underfunded
pensions, retiree health care |
|
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|
|
12/21/2017 |
City gives State Journal incorrect
pension amounts |
|
11/20/2017 |
How much tax is paid on dividends? |
|
11/3/2017 |
Observations on the Lansing election |
|
10/12/2017 |
Union PACs lead all other contributors in Lansing
election |
|
9/22/2017 |
Andy Shor campaign has
$137,139.95 to spend |
|
9/15/2017 |
Online campaign finance reporting |
|
8/25/2017 |
Are public employee pension amounts
exempt from FOIA? |
|
7/27/2017 |
Freshman state representative wants to
get rid of senate |
|
7/5/2017 |
Management information |
|
7/3/2017 |
Wrong about police, firefighter
pensions exceeding $100,000 |
|
6/15/2017 |
City of Lansing violates Freedom of
Information Act |
|
5/31/2017 |
Cutting retiree health insurance |
|
5/13/2017 |
Corrections officers "underappreciated" |
|
4/15/17 |
CATA denies access to overtime information |
|
4/7/2017 |
Is it hypocritical for a pension
recipient to attack pensions? |
|
3/29/2017 |
Not
sure about Schor |
|
2/20/2017 |
Michigan couple pays $6.875 million for
home on Tampa Bay |
|
1/27/2017 |
Ingham County Commission upholds denial
of FOIA request for Sheriff pursuit policy |
|
|
|
|
12/15/2016 |
Overkill: Avenging the Death of Deputy
Grant Whitaker |
|
11/15/2016 |
White women disappoint |
|
10/5/2016 |
Ingham County vs. the FOP in 1997: a Public Act 312 story |
|
8/25/2016 |
PERA undermines democracy |
|
8/18/2016 |
End collective bargaining for public
employees |
|
8/9/2016 |
Bernero mayoral campaign account grows to
$109,260 |
|
8/1/2016 |
Pension debt: A public policy disaster
|
|
7/24/2016 |
Circuit court reporters charge outrageous
fees for transcripts
|
|
7/15/2016 |
How Lansing can attract police &
firefighter recruits
|
|
6/19/2016 |
Hiding behind attorney-client privilege |
|
5/19/2016 |
Jones Property Development gives
Bernero $5,000 |
|
5/1/2016 |
Police unions prey on public |
|
2/20/2016 |
GM pays veteran employees $60,000 to
retire |
|
2/2/2016 |
Eliminating
the payroll tax |
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|
11/16/2015 |
Big funeral
for bad lieutenant |
|
11/4/2015 |
A source of
extra revenue for Michigan cities |
|
10/26/2015 |
Campaign
reports from the Lansing city council race
|
|
10/15/2015 |
Bernero
campaign fund grows by $20,354 in first half of 2015
|
|
10/3/2015 |
Government
compensates survivors unequally |
|
9/26/2015 |
Campaign
reports from the Lansing city council primary
|
|
9/9/2015 |
No ordinary
motorcycle death |
|
8/29/2015 |
Legislators: Please fix this! |
|
8/15/2015 |
Replacing
Lansing's mayor with a city manager |
|
7/27/2015 |
God's
servant pays ultimate price, parents get $400,000
|
|
7/20/2015 |
How to oust
Bernero |
|
7/15/2015 |
Eight years
on the job gets you a pension |
|
7/9/2015 |
Lansing's
"structural deficit" may exceed $16,000 per household
|
|
6/25/2015 |
Lansing's
UAAL may require selling the BWL |
|
6/9/2015 |
Is
placement of FOIA exemption unconstitutional?
|
|
4/16/2015 |
Stop
special tax treatment of capital gains and dividends
|
|
4/6/2015 |
Plan B: If
road funding proposal fails, increase income tax
|
|
3/16/2015 |
A cloud
over Sunshine Week |
|
3/9/2015 |
Civil asset
forfeiture: Justice, or revenue enhancement?
|
|
2/19/2015 |
It's time
to revisit the National Labor Relations Act
|
|
2/13/2015 |
High pay of
"elite" auto workers causes low pay, unemployment elsewhere
|
|
2/7/2015 |
Bernero's
City Administrative Account takes in another $8,500 in last
half of 2014 |
|
1/22/2015 |
Problems
with J. Peter Lark seen as early as 2009
|
|
1/13/2015 |
Who killed
Deputy Grant Whitaker? |
|
1/2/2015 |
Support of
collective bargaining is immoral |
| |
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|
12/11/2014 |
See what
military equipment your local law enforcement agency got
|
|
12/6/2014 |
New IAFF
contract cuts pension benefits for new Lansing firefighters
|
|
11/30/2014 |
80% of
contributions to police union PAC goes to telemarketer
|
|
11/18/2014 |
Lansing subsidizes second careers for police and firefighters
|
|
10/29/2014 |
Auto dealers get what they pay for |
|
10/9/2014 |
Elderly state retiree defends pension tax |
|
9/26/2014 |
Why death "in line of duty" matters:
$333,604.68 |
|
9/21/2014 |
How dangerous is firefighting? |
|
9/8/2014 |
Do City, BWL managers contribute
voluntarily? |
|
8/31/2014 |
Bernero sends a message |
|
8/25/2014 |
Ingham, Eaton, Clinton counties get
lots of free military stuff |
| 8/11/2014 |
Protesters
violated rights |
| 7/12/2014 |
Taxing corporate income |
| 7/18/2014 |
Is $66,000 too much for unskilled
labor? |
| 7/29/2014 |
Non-candidate Virg Bernero rakes in $41,300 at breakfast |
| 7/2/2014 |
Public unions lead to privatization |
| 5/25/2014 |
Fund road repairs by increasing the
income tax |
| 5/16/2014 |
Freedom vs. democracy |
| 5/14/2014 |
Lark is being paid too much for shoddy management |
| 4/15/2014 |
Salary confidentiality in American
business |
| 3/1/2014 |
Strike 3 for Ingham County Prosecutor
Stuart Dunnings III? |
| 2/19/2014 |
Open up Lansing government |
| 1/30/2014 |
Free Kosgar Lado; fire Stuart Dunnings
III |
| |
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| 12/21/2013 |
Whatever happened to the SERS and
MPSERS 13th check? |
| 12/10/2013 |
Some observations on Lansing's November election |
| 11/19/2013 |
We must help our financially-troubled cities |
| 11/7/2013 |
Campaign finance update |
| 10/11/2013 |
Online democracy |
| 8/8/2013 |
Virg's money machine |
| 8/3/2013 |
Who wins with prevailing
wage? |
| 7/28/2013 |
Here we go again: Ingham
County jails another innocent man |
| 7/19/2013 |
Why is this woman laughing? |
| 7/9/2013 |
A council member responds |
| 7/3/2013 |
Can we afford another union
supporter on City Council? |
| 5/15/2013 |
Retirement board meeting minutes online |
| 5/2/2013 |
Sorry, you have NO right to
know |
| 4/14/2013 |
No pensions for new City
employees |
| 4/8/2013 |
LPD
could use list of old cases to organize its work |
| 2/10/2013 |
Free the retailer from credit card costs |
| 1/22/2013 |
Expand access to
information |
| |
|
| 12/21/2012 |
New law denies access to
public pension information |
| 11/20/2012 |
Breaking away from unions |
| 11/9/2012 |
Sadly, this is what democracy looks like |
| 7/30/2012 |
Mayor Bernero an Embarrassment |
| 6/14/2012 |
A Collective Bargaining Triumph |
| 3/28/2012 |
Open up collective bargaining sessions |
| 3/23/2012 |
City supplements $103,000 salary
with $73,000 pension |
| 2/29/2012 |
Virg
Bernero's fund
raising and spending |
| 2/12/2012 |
The Democratic
mayor's dilemma |
| 1/24/2012 |
A Challenge to
Fans of Collective Bargaining |
| 1/4/2012 |
Do Lansing Leaders
Favor Unions over Citizens? |
| |
|
| 12/23/2011 |
A Counter-productive Pension System |
| 12/10/2011 |
Taxing Seniors |
| 11/8/2011 |
Collective Bargaining is
Destroying Us |
| 10/26/2011 |
Do we pay police and firefighters too much? |
| 10/6/2011 |
Hefty Pensions for City of Lansing
Retirees |
| 9/29/2011 |
Police and Fire Pensions Exceed Salaries |
| 8/1/2011 |
Lansing Booster Club Rakes in
$24,081 in First Half of 2011 |
| 7/25/2011 |
Unions are struggling to hold power |
| 4/20/2011 |
Dirty Money |
| 4/11/2011 |
Taxing Pensions |