The Detroit News’ Mike Wilkinson has an eye-opening story on how unemployment rates generally under-report true joblessness — and specifically how this is happening in Michigan’s largest city.
The story points out that Detroit’s official unemployment rate of 27 percent (as of October) may be dramatically under-counting those without work [...]
Now that we know that the Guantanamo Bay detainees will be moved to a prison in rural Illinois, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is hinting at the possibility of keeping the Standish prison open by housing inmates from Pennsylvania instead. The Detroit News reports:
She said Michigan never made a proposal [...]
Michigan ranked near the bottom of all the states in terms of the average increase in mpg gained from swapping older cars for newer ones during the cash for clunkers program earlier this year. The Detroit News reports that disappointing news:
According to a Detroit News analysis, Michiganians who [...]
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 [...]
The Obama administration expects not to recover about one-third of the more than $80 billion the federal government invested in saving Chrysler and General Motors from going through a liquidation bankruptcy. The Detroit News reports:
Gene Sperling, senior counsel to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, confirmed in an interview late [...]
That tentative plan between Detroit Public Schools and the Detroit Federation of Teachers is not getting a good reception among the teachers themselves, the Detroit News reports. And given some of the provisions in the deal, that’s hardly surprising. The deal actually requires the teachers to loan money to [...]
The Detroit News has an article about the last couple weeks remaining in the state’s legislative calendar and how the House and Senate leadership are focusing on the most short-term and irrelevant solutions to the school funding crisis. House Speaker Andy Dillon is looking only at temporary solutions, while [...]
The state's electorate wants education properly funded, aren't terribly offended at the idea of higher taxes (which would bite others anyway), but they won't get it. Why? Someone's priorities are out of whack.
Apparently somebody is listening as the latest EPIC-MRA survey conducted for TV-7 news and the Detroit News [...]
At the very end of David Shepardson’s story in today’s Detroit News about yesterday’s White House jobs meeting, the newspaper’s Washington Bureau chief relayed a revealing comment from Detroit Mayor Dave Bing.
Bing, who attended the meeting and made his case for the need for more federal funds, was apparently [...]
DETROIT—Days after the Motor City won an award from a national public finance magazine for making a “Deal of the Year” that postponed payment on a $400 million bond, details of a year-late audit reveal what Detroit News reporter David Josar calls a “startling glimpses of how quickly [...]
A coalition of federal and state agencies will come together tonight to poison the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the hope of killing off any Asian carp that may have breached the electrical barrier and moved within a few miles of reaching Lake Michigan. The Detroit News reports:
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Bernie pr0n says Mike Bishop may have won the battle, but lost the war on K-12 funding:
Lansing -- Local public school districts have too little funding to provide a quality education, according to 60 percent of voters surveyed in an exclusive Detroit News/WXYZ (Channel 7) poll released Tuesday.
Only [...]
Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith is so incensed at the Macomb County Board of Commissioners over cuts to his office made necessary by a county budget deficit of nearly $16 million that he is considering filing a lawsuit against his own county to have those cuts overturned. The Detroit News [...]
In the latest roadblock thrown in the way of GM’s shedding of its niche brands, Swedish automaker Koenigsegg Group AB withdrew from a deal struck last year to purchase Saab from America’s largest car company. The Detroit News reports:
“We’re obviously very disappointed with the decision to pull out [...]
How ironic is this? Builder Bernard Glieberman, chairman of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, getting sued for $100 million for defaulting on loans as banks are foreclosing on his projects all over the country. From The Detroit News: Michigan's housing chief defaults on loans.The chair of the state agency directed to work with home owners facing default is himself in default to the tune of millions of dollars, reports the Detroit News.
Bernard Glieberman, chairman of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, has defaulted on millions of dollars in loans [...]
