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Chuy Garcia and Abdul El-Sayed Democrats in Michigan have a chance to back a genuine progressive over a couple of corporate dems in the ...

Rahm's council rubber-stamp, Ald. Will Burns bails out. Takes job with AirBnB. CTU Vice-Pres. Jesse Sharkey  “The Big Bargaining...

In Michigan, the idea of a government of, by, and for the people did not apply to poor black cities, and when residents were robbed of th...

If you want to see what it looks like when a right-wing governor pulls a coup d'etat and appoints corporate managers to supplant ele...

As Rahm Emanuel is about to hit city residents with the biggest property tax increase in history, there's another hidden tax we alrea...

Remember Rahm Emanuel' s fear campaign, the one that -- along with $20 million -- helped get him re-elected? John Kass ri...

Still whistling Dixie in AR Dr. Martin Luther King The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to t...

A SMALL VICTORY -- Ongoing protests against Detroit's massive water shut-off to the city's poorest have forced a restructuring in...

In response to the unraveling situation in Detroit, the United Nations issued a statement out of Geneva last month that said, “Disconnec...

Emanuel's weakness has been known for months—he lost the left ages ago, and has lost Chicagoans more generally over basic competence is...

Our "moderate" Republican Senator  Mark Kirk , who has called for the mass incarceration of 18,000 young black men as a crime-fi...

Heading for Detroit on the Wolverine for the NDSG meeting . I love trains. A ticket to Motown -- $28 each way. Plus I got free upgrade fr...

I'm heading to Detroit next week for the annual meeting of the North Dakota Study Group . I used to attend every year for at least part ...

Xian Barrett protests Chicago school closings. He was one of 2,100 teachers and staff fired Friday. CPS called his mother to tell her, son...

Roberts was told to "blow up" and "dismantle" Detroit schools Roy Roberts, Emergency Manager of Detroit Public Schoo...

Bill Gates addressed the 2010 Convention I don't expect anything too new or exciting coming out of AFT Convention, just starting in ...

Jitu Brown of Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (back, left) and Helen Moore, Co-Chair of Keep the Vote/ No Takeover Coalition of D...

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But now we're losing Motown's public education system Gil Scott Heron died Friday. I've been listening to his music and poetr...

Students occupy Detroit school for pregnant girls “I was scared at first but I’m not anymore,” Catherine Becker, senior at CFA , said while...