President Barack' [...]
From the Port Huron Times Herald:
"They in Lansing need a two-by-four to the side of the head," (Port Huron school board treasurer Geoffrey -- my add, based on no other Herings referenced ~ed.) Herring said.
What would prompt one public official to suggest that a whack to the head is [...]
Some other stuff to ponder:
Michigan revenues for November showed the first increase since January - another hopeful sign that we are starting to see some recovery. Gongwer via MI-Tech has the breakdown on tax collections here, the sales tax [...]
Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless.
They also want the deficit to come down. And most are ready to hand [...]
... One prime reason? The Army Corps of Engineers and many Illinois officials see their job as serving commerce, not protecting ecosystems ...
Regulatory agencies that fail to do their jobs because they are in bed with the industries they are supposed to watch over? How could [...]
Time for a second bridge?
The Detroit River International Cross project is one political trestle closer to reality after Canadian officials today approved moving forward on a second international bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor.
Transport Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Windsor Port Authority [...]
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 Mayor Dave Bing was on the road a lot this week. The newly re-elected mayor travelled from the State Capitol to the nation’s Capitol this week, first seeking financial help during a Lansing visit. Then he traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend a White House Economic Growth [...]
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Unions Nix Job-Saving Plan — Union leaders seek to prevent teachers in a West Michigan school district from taking pay cuts to save their co-workers' jobs.
At least they didn't drag out Stock Editorial #3 and argue that the Public Trust Doctrine would destroy industry and kill jobs. Nevertheless, the News swallows Russ Harding's deeply flawed understanding of riparian laws and water use traditions and pretends they are facts.
Russ Harding, senior environmental analyst at the [...]
The New York Times had an article on Saturday about the Med Grow Cannabis College, a new school in Southfield that promises to teach state residents the ins and outs of growing marijuana within the confines of Michigan’s new medical marijuana laws.
“This state needs jobs, and [...]
