Voter suppression, Julie Brixie on vaccine passports, Craig Mauger on transparency and money

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:10:09 — 28.6MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, May 10, 2021

  • GOP voter suppression – The Big Lie never ends
  • COVID-19 – Vaccination and benchmark updates
  • Julie Brixie on the Republican fear of imaginary vaccine passports
  • Personal data protection
  • Following the money with Craig Mauger
  • Governor Whitmer: More criticism and a new opponent
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Click here for the amazing show notes 😀

COVID updates, GQP voter suppression. Matt Grossman on midterms, reapportionment, and MSU’s MPLP

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:23 — 29.8MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, May 3, 2021

  • COVID infection rates, racial disparities
  • The census and Congressional reapportionment
  • Matt Grossman of MSU IPPSR
  • More Republican voter suppression
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Click here for the amazing show notes 😀

COVID-19, new clean energy initiatives, gridlock over Unlock Michigan, polls look good for Biden

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:04 — 24.4MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, April 26, 2021

  • Michigan COVID-19 updates – Vaccines, infections, politics
  • Voter suppression – absentee ballots, ballot boxes, sleazy petition initiatives
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Click here for the amazing show notes 😀

COVID-19, voter suppression, obstruction. Curtis Hertel Jr on gridlock in the Michigan Legislature

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:01:17 — 28.1MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

  Michigan Policast for Monday, April 19, 2021

  • Michigan COVID-19 updates
  • Voter suppression in Michigan
  • American Jobs Plan and Senator Curtis Hertel on federal funds waiting on Michigan
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Cover photo tooootally stolen from this tweet by Samantha Steckloff.

Click here for the whole post 😉

GOP voter suppression, Biden’s agenda, Connie Cook and Sandy Sorini-Elser of VNP

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:33 — 86.8MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

  Michigan Policast for Monday, April 12, 2021

  • COVID-19 updates: cases, hospitalizations, and vaccines
  • Voter suppression
  • Connie Cook and Sandy Sorini-Elser of VNP on redistricting and Communities of Interest
  • Biden's bold agenda to heal America – guns, infrastructure, energy, and more
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Click here for the whole post 😉

COVID updates, GOP voter suppression, Dr Charles Ballard on infrastructure and The American Jobs Plan

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08:45 — 88.1MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, April 5, 2021

  In this episode:

  • COVID-19 updates
  • Dr Charles Ballard on Biden's infrastructure plan
  • Voter suppression, the GOP, and the new Jim Crow
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

 

Click here for the whole post 😉

Assassinations, voter suppression, COVID. Kyle Melinn on Trump and the GOP

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:46 — 65.9MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, March 29, 2021

  In this episode:

  • COVID-19 – Cases and hospitalizations going up
  • Voter suppression, assassinations, and burning women at the stake
  • Kyle Melinn on Trump's influence over the Republican party
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

 

Click here for the whole post 😉

Vaccines, fake anti-Whitmer scandals, GOP incompetence. Mark Brewer on FOIA and transparency.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:46 — 65.9MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, March 22, 2021

  In this episode:

  • #StopAsianHate #StopAsianHateCrimes
  • Michigan pandemic and vaccine updates
  • Fake anti-Whitmer scandals
  • MI GOP withholds federal pandemic relief from Michiganders
  • Mark Brewer on transparency in Michigan
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Shameless plug for our friend:  Listen to Tom Watkins on the new podcast Beyond the Classroom

Click here for the whole post 😉

Pandemic updates, GOP attacks transgender youth. Mark Wilson and Marianne Udow-Phillips

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:52 — 60.4MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, March 15, 2021

  In this episode:

  • Pandemic updates: power grabs, recovery, imaginary horribles
  • Marianne Udow-Phillips on Michigan's COVID response and nursing homes
  • Professor Mark Wilson on the pandemic-driven transformation of America
  • Political notes
  • Transcript

Cover:  Mike Shirkey just doesn't understand why the Governor doesn't trust that everyone will do the right thing … Torch Lake, July 4, 2020

Click here for the whole post 😉

Vaccines, election security, remembering Frank Kelley. Sam Inglot of Progress Michigan on govt. transparency

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08:12 — 53.4MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS

Michigan Policast for Monday, March 8, 2021

  In this episode:

  • COVID-19 and vaccine updates
  • Michigan election audit, Trump/Shirkey's Big Lie
  • Sam Inglott of Progress Michigan on transparency reform
  • Political notes
  • Remembering Frank Kelley
  • Transcript – on the way

 

Click here for the whole post 😉