By: Senator Carl Levin
May 9, 2012

Senate Republicans are preventing the Senate from even debating legislation to fix the looming increase in student loan interest rates. It's just not right.

On July 1, the interest rate on student loans is going to increase from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. It's going to double unless we act. That will cost 7.4 million college students and their families money that many families do not have to spare. So the need to act is urgent.

Join the Berkley Dems at Comerica Park on June 6th to see the Tigers beat the Indians!

Group tickets have not yet been purchased, but we expect them to be less than $35 each. If you would like to join in on the fun, please email Nicole Smithson at vicechair@berkleydems.org by May 20th.

Press release from Michigan Senate Democrats
May 1, 2012

Plan would provide college tuition for all Michigan high school graduates

Lansing – Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer announced today that the Senate Finance Committee will be taking up the legislation to enact the Michigan 2020 Plan tomorrow in a historic first step toward making this plan to offer free college tuition a reality for high school graduates across the state.

By Colleen Ochoa Peters
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Equal pay for equal work – pretty straight forward.

You put in a good day of work and you should earn the same amount as anyone else - no matter your sex.

Unfortunately this is not the case!

Saturday, May 5, 2012 - for the Democratic Presidential Caucus.

Come one, come all to the Democratic Presidential Caucus on Saturday, May 5th! Registration opens at 9:00am and concludes at 11:00am. The voting takes place shortly thereafter. Regional candidates may stop by throughout the morning to meet and great. Caucus will be held at the Berkley Community Center located at 2400 Robina Ave., Berkley, MI 48072. Plenty of free car and bicycle parking is available.

By Andy Meisner, Oakland County Treasurer
Friday, April 6, 2012

Our lawsuit that gained national attention won in court last week when we took on mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Oakland County now leads the nation in recovering millions of dollars for hard-working taxpayers.

By Tim Burns, Candidate for Oakland County Clerk
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

We need to elect a County Clerk who will make serving the people with integrity his priority rather than the current clerk who has a history of pushing partisan agendas, disenfranchising voters, providing perks to himself and political party loyalists on the taxpayers’ dime, and promoting extremist agendas.

The Michigan Democratic Party is excited to announce that Robert Gibbs, Senior Advisor to Obama for America, will be this year's keynote speaker at the MDP's annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at Cobo Center in Detroit on April 28, 2012. The event begins at 6:30pm.

For more information: michigandems.com