The Detroit News reports that the Michigan Economic Growth Authority approved $2.6 million in additional tax breaks for General Motors as an incentive to keep at least 2,500 workers at the Renaissance Center.
The most high-profile project addressed by the MEGA board Tuesday involved additional tax incentives to help [...]
Certainly this will cut financial expenditures on the procedure, but at the cost of how many lives? That's the entire point of rationing though - save money while letting people die. From the AP via The Detroit News: Panel: Start breast exams at 50.
The Detroit News is reporting that the Detroit Police Department will put another 150 police officers onto streets in neighborhoods around the city. 100 of this comes from police officers being reassigned from desk jobs, with the balance coming from the addition of new police officers thanks [...] The Detroit News reports on perhaps the most unsurprising study since the Rand Corporation famously determined that water is, in fact, wet. This study concludes that the state of Michigan is unprepared to handle a flood of residents newly in need of Medicaid, food stamps and other social services.
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The Detroit News has the second installment up of their series on the abuse of asset forfeiture laws by law enforcement and it contains another alarming statement from a law enforcement official, this time Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. The article recounts this story of a woman who had [...]
The Detroit News has a very important article about the use of asset forfeiture laws by law enforcement as a means of raising revenue. The law allows the police to seize any property (including cash) that was used in the commission of a crime or was purchased or gained [...]
Dan Gilbert
Fortune Magazine contributor (and Detroit News columnist) Laura Berman chronicles the high-stakes twists-and-turns of Detroit booster businessman Dan Gilbert in an interesting story published on Fortune’s Web site earlier today.
Berman notes that the Quicken Loans CEO is aggressively pursuing a two-state strategy, developing [...]
Anger over more than $500 million in cuts to school funding in the latest budget seems to be spreading in the state. Tuesday morning more than 1,500 students, teachers and parents rallied at the state capitol, demanding that the legislature restore those cuts. The Detroit News reports:
More than [...]
There was news out of both GM and Chrysler on Monday showing that both companies that recently emerged from bankruptcy proceedings are preparing for the next generation of electric cars. The Detroit News reports that GM is moving forward with plans to produce a cutting edge Cadillac electric car:
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The state of Michigan is applying for $290 million in federal funds to help set up or fully fund municipal land banks that help local governments take control of foreclosed and abandoned properties. The Detroit News reports:
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority has proposed launching the “New Michigan [...]
The Detroit News reports that President Obama will sign the long-anticipated bill to extend unemployment benefits by an additional 14-20 weeks on Friday. After weeks of wrangling and political gamesmanship, the U.S. Senate finally passed the bill on Wednesday.
[...]The plan to recall 55 Michigan State Police officers that was put on hold yesterday is back on again, the Detroit News reports. They will be back on duty as of Nov. 16.
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