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Why I Am Voting NO on Michigan’s Proposal 6
How I Am Voting on Michigan’s Ballot Initiatives, Part 1: Why I am voting NO on Proposal 6 Next Tuesday, November 6, I will vote NO on Proposal 6, “A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution Regarding...
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Why I Will Vote NO on Michigan’s Proposal 5
How I Am Voting on Michigan’s Six Statewide Ballot Initiatives, Part 2: Why I Am Voting NO on Proposal 5 On Tuesday, November 6, I will vote NO on Proposal 5, “A Proposal to Amend the State...
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Why I Will Vote YES on Prop 2
Why I Am Voting YES on Michigan’s Proposal 2 (and How I Came to My Union Consciousness) My worlds have been colliding in some interesting ways lately. Back in August of this year, I started writing...
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I Woke Up This Morning in a “Right-to-Work” State
It really happened. And in Michigan, of all places. On December 6, 2012, Republicans in the Michigan state legislature rammed through two so-called “right to work” (RTW) bills during a lame-duck...
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The Quasi-Sentient Professor
Cross-posted at Daily Kos. A few weeks ago, a friend and colleague who works in a creative discipline at the very fine but underfunded non-flagship state university where I work as a professor of...
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The Vernacular of Privilege
Cross-posted to FunctionalShift (my linguistics blog) and Daily Kos. This post is adapted from a presentation I gave recently as part of the Race Matters Lyceum Lecture Series at the Lee Honors...
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College Presidents Selling Out to Gov. Rick Snyder?
Cross-posted at Daily Kos. Those of us who live in the United States are fortunate to live in a country in which we are all free to speak our minds, including with respect to the political candidates...
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All Politics Is Local: Jon Hoadley for State Representative, 60th District
We are incredibly fortunate here in Kalamazoo to have an enviably deep bench when it comes to smart, committed people who are willing to step up to serve in leadership positions. I can’t think of a...
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Campus Cops vs. University Professors
Cross-posted at DailyKos. WMU faculty rally on September 5, 2014. (Photos by Larry J. Simon.) On occasion on these pages, I have written about higher education and about labor rights, mostly in the...
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Five of the many ways a smoothie can go wrong
If you make smoothies regularly, you know that there are many, many ways they can go wrong. But until the subject came up in a conversation with some friends last weekend, I didn’t realize that this is...
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