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Posts by Jeff Smith (GRIID)

2November 3, 2021Which Grand Rapids residents will get to decide how to spend $2 million in the City’s Participatory Budgeting project?

1November 2, 2021When community activists and organizers demand justice, the response from the City of Grand Rapids is further GRPD repression

0November 1, 2021Peter Meijer, Campaign Finances and the 2022 Election: Corporate paymasters and GR Power Structure member contributions

3October 31, 2021Ryan Kelley’s new political ad is filled with misinformation, unsubstantiated claims, and wrapped in White Supremacist rhetoric

0October 28, 2021There is a war on BIPOC people in Kalamazoo: An Interview with Monica Washington Padula

0October 27, 2021We’re Rich and We Do What We Want: A DeVos Family Reader

1October 26, 2021Follow the Money: Campaign Finance reports and notable West Michigan Campaign Contributors

3October 25, 2021Power Over or Power With: A Power Analysis of the top 200 most powerful business leaders in West Michigan, according to the Grand Rapids Business Journal

9October 24, 2021After 21 years of fighting to get public funding for private education in Michigan, Betsy DeVos finally gets what she wanted with new legislation passed last week

0October 20, 2021The Devil is in the Details: The Business of Grand Rapids is Business and Business Development……as long as the public pays for it