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Mar 11, 2010
Bipartisan freshmen demand movement on term limits and budget reforms
Two strong reforms are sitting idle because the bosses in the Michigan House of Representatives won't take action.
That's the charge levied by two leaders of the House Freshman Bipartisan Caucus.
In a March 3 letter to leadership, State Reps Bill Rogers, R-Brighton, and Tim Bledsoe, D-Grosse Pointe, demand attention to their joint proposals to extend [...]Mar 11, 2010
TAKE ACTION: Tell House leaders to take up budget and term limits reforms
If you invest one minute of your time, you can help Bipartisan Freshman Caucus members Bill Rogers and Tim Bledsoe force the issue on term limits and budget reforms.
Call or email House leaders today. Tell them to get off their hands and move forward with important budget and term limits reforms. The easiest way is [...]Mar 11, 2010
Education Town Hall Report: Support for Pre-K and funding, scrutiny of bennies
The Center for Michigan's town hall meeting in East Lansing Wednesday was jam-packed with citizens, business people and educators eager to see the issues of children and schools go to the top of the agenda for the 2010 statewide elections.
Click here for a quick guide to the big issues.
In case you missed it, [...]Mar 11, 2010
Audience vote totals from Wednesday's Education Town Hall Meeting
Following are the vote totals from the Education Town Hall meeting. Over 200 participants voted on a range of issues from Pre-K Education through Higher Ed.
Mar 11, 2010
SPECIAL REPORT: Top 10 budget cuts & Top 10 revenue ideas
By Susan J. Demas
It's that time of year again when the governor and lawmakers slog through next year's budget due on Oct. 1. Given the fact that the federal stimulus money has run dry, the budget hole is pegged to be at least $1.7 billion even after a decade of deficits. And it's an election [...]Mar 11, 2010
SUCCESS STORY: Manufacturer moves beyond autos
By Jo Mathis
Laurie Moncrieff was working at IBM back in the early 80s when she watched the number of employees drop from 15,000 to 1,500.
she saw the same thing happen to the textile and furniture industries. So when she moved back to Michigan in the early 90s to join her family's tool and die business, [...]
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