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Museum for Mules, Lobster for Dogs — Michigan's congressional delegation votes in favor of absurd pork spending.
School District Consolidation Talk in Lansing — Mackinac Center studies and articles explain what will and will [...]
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Museum for Mules, Lobster for Dogs — Michigan's congressional delegation votes in favor of absurd pork spending.
School District Consolidation Talk in Lansing — Mackinac Center studies and articles explain what will and will [...]
You see, John, the reason we [...]
The Michigan Taxpayers Alliance had its first of what I would presume is going to be an annual awards banquet last night. Three awards were handed out. The honorees were Wendy Day, Robert Bobb and Frank Beckmann, together in this pic that I took:
This is what the precipitation map looked like all day yesterday:
I’m sorry this isn’t the animated version, so you could see the way those cotton-ball areas of snow park themselves over certain coastal stretches and stay and stay and stay. Some of you non-Midwesterners may not [...]
The compromise exempts Detroit's three casinos and so-called cigar bars, but gaining approval of the same version of the bill from both [...]
Though Michigan leads the nation in the number of mortgages being renegotiated under a federal program to prevent foreclosures, the number of homeowners being helped through the program is still vanishingly small. The Detroit Free Press reports on the remarks of a Treasury Department official:
Less than 1% of [...]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm decided to delay a $127 per pupil cut to K-12 funding that she ordered in addition to the $165 per pupil cut that was passed by the state legislature in October. She ordered the additional cuts because there was a $100 million unfunded mandate in the [...]
A new bill, HB 5676, has been introduced in the Michigan legislature to address the many problems with the state’s indigent defense system. The bill was submitted by Rep. Bob Constan (D-Dearborn Heights) and cosponsored by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Kentwood).
The legislation, dubbed the Michigan Public Defense Act, would create [...]
Detroit isn't a typical badly run, desperately poor major city; it's actually uniquely screwed up. I can't articulate a specific cause, but Detroit stands out from its urban peers (Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, D.C...) in at least a dozen independent dimensions.
You might think one city would have the worst murder [...]
Why doesn’t the media do any investigating any more? Among today’s headlines is the story that Governor Granholm is delaying the school funding cut of $127 per pupil because the state’s November property tax revenues were $150 million higher than expected. Property taxes are among [...]
There are many who may make the claim that in order to promote the public welfare, licensure of certain occupations must be required. Top of the list especially, and not surprising, are occupations such as medical doctors, lawyers, engineers, and architects to name a few. The proponent claim being made [...]
I guess when you don't have a substantive campaign to run, better build one on demagoguery. Todd Heywood from Michigan Messenger:
In the e-mail alert, McManus argues that her Senate Campaign and Election Oversight Committee will take up her legislation to “to clamp down on voter fraud by groups [...]
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced that the $127 per-pupil reduction in school aid payments to school districts is being paused. The decision is due to school districts spending less' [...]
PCB contamination around the canals in St. Clair Shores is more severe and more widespread than previously thought, the Detroit News reports.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of toxic compounds that were used in manufacturing but banned in the U.S. in the 1970s. Exposure to PCBs has [...]
