SUCCESS NOW, CHALLENGES AHEAD: More people are choosing to ride Amtrak lines in Michigan these days, but the state’s subsidy for passenger rail will increase significantly starting in October. A group of rail advocates is offering a plan to boost the number of seats available on Michigan rails to help the state defray those costs. […]
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* The Capitol news service MIRS is paywall protected, but I wanted to share some basic data it collected on salaries for top political appointees in Michigan. “Salaries of the department directors as of Jan. 10, 2013: – John Nixon, Department of Technology, Management and Budget: $250,000 – Mike Flanagan, Department of Education: $189,515 – Andy Dillon, […]
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“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. * Gov. Rick Snyder and michiganliberal.com are rarely on the […]
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“You can’t know, you can only believe — or not” — C.S. Lewis, 20th century English author. * About 25 percent of voters in Michigan this year are expected to cast ballots absentee. “More and more people, in talking to their neighbors, are finding out it’s convenient in saving you a trip to the polls,” said […]
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Primary focus showed Snyder ill-suited for national Republican mood
In the two weeks of Michigan campaigning before packing up his tent and moving the circus to Ohio and parts South, Mitt Romney warned that the application of his Massachusetts health-care overhaul at the federal level would consume that part of America’s soul the auto bailout hadn’t already devoured. Gov. Rick Snyder didn’t offer a […]
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Private-public pact gets Troy on track
For the entire 10 years Michele Hodges had been president of the Troy Chamber of Commerce, a new rail-and-bus transit center for the Oakland County community had been in the works. Then, on Dec. 19, 2011, the Troy City Council voted 4-3 to turn down $8.5 million in federal funds for the transit center, which […]