Most of Michigan's income and local taxes come from the state's [...]
Congressman Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Menominee, says he is surprised how much his amendment to federal health care reform legislation to ban payments for abortion has garnered.
The Marquette Mining Journal reports that Stupak said in an interview with Media Meet, a WNMU production, he did not expect the [...]
MOTUS received this communiqué from one of her faithful readers and insisted that I post it in it’s entirety here. It’s from HillBuzz, a blog by two gay Hillary supporters from Chicago who were completely disgusted with the Chicago style head-butting that took Hillary out and shooed “Mr. [...]
A major new study shows that the state’s roads are rapidly falling apart. Michigan Radio’s political analyst Jack Lessenberry takes a look at what’s going on…
Here’s something that shouldn’t surprise you. Michigan roads are in bad shape, and getting [...] Imagine my surprise when I logged onto annarbor.com Thursday morning and discovered that the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners approved (or, rather, IMPOSED) a property tax increase. Didn't county citizens vote down additional taxes less than 48 hours before? I thought the' [...]
Why does this not surprise me one bit? Probably because number chicanery has been going on ever since Obama switched from claims of jobs created, to jobs "created or saved." The latter gives bureaucrats ammunition to pull numbers out their wazoos. Back in mid-October, the government [...] 
LANSING — Following up on a June surprise, Michigan House Speaker Pro Tem Pam Byrnes on Wednesday announced she had introduced legislation to roll back a 2004 constitutional amendment which bans same-sex marriage in the state.
Pam Byrnes
Byrnes, a Democrat from Washtenaw County’s Lyndon Township, [...]Rank-and-file union members at Ford overwhelmingly turned down a new round of contract concessions yesterday. Michigan Radio’s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry says we shouldn’t be all that surprised by the news…
Ford Motor Company learned an ancient and painful lesson [...] 
What's old is new again in Detroit. A while ago, I had a post regarding the financial problems of the Detroit City Council (Surprise? Tax debts, money woes hound Detroit City Council) that included several gems from the D. At least 6 of the [...] 
No surprise here. It's pretty uniform across the major print publications, except for the Wall Street Journal, which is actually up! What's the difference? The WSJ is center right, the others (including the freep) are rabid far-left. A correlation? Cause-effect? Kind of the same thing happening [...] 
Charles Pugh
On Sunday, the Detroit Free Press rounded out its election endorsements with something predictable, but a couple surprises too.
The Motor City’s major daily newspaper’s endorsement of incumbent Mayor Dave Bing’s bid for a full, four-year term was strongly argued even if it was expected.
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The governor held a press conference earlier this hour, explaining a cut she's making to K-12 funding that the Legislature has 30 days to solve through alternate means. It's based on the continued free-fall in revenue. To no surprise to anyone with a functioning brain, the school aid fund is [...]
