Via The Minority Report:[...]
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 [...]
Lieutenant Governor John Cherry has a proposal to restore the Michigan Promise Scholarship by taxing water that’s bottled in the state. Michigan Radio’s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry thinks this idea is interesting for reasons that have nothing to do with water...
Predictably, the frothing-at-the-mouth right has come out against the proposal.
This confounds me, [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s proposal to sell $250 million in debt reduction bonds cleared its first major hurdle then the state House Appropriations Committee approved the sale by a 19-8 vote on Wednesday. The bonds be backed by future state revenue sharing funds and future property tax receipts, [...]
Skubick's latest blog post points us to the failings behind the reasoning of Proposal A. School funding based on a per-pupil foundation grant was supposed to stimulate competition among school districts for excellence. Academics would flourish because districts would want the best programs to attract more students, which would [...]
I think we have to recognize a couple of things here. I think first of all we have to recognize that the majority caucus in the state Senate has essentially resigned itself to being an impediment to substantively and positively reforming and restructuring government -- not just how services are [...]
An AIDS service organization in Flint, Wellness AIDS Services, is asking Flint leaders to back a proposal which would allow them to create a needle exchange. The exchange, they argue, will reduce the incidents of intravenous drug user infections with HIV, as well as Hepatitis B and C.
But local [...]
