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State Police Pay 43 Officers Over $300k Each To Not Retire
The Michigan State Police paid seven troopers more than $400,000 each to delay taking early retirement and a lifetime pension. Another 36 officers were paid more than $300,000 each to not take advantage of an early retirement privilege. … more
One in Four Of This District’s Teachers Missed More Than 20 Days of School
Throughout Michigan, public school districts are saying there is a substitute teachers shortage. But in one school district, the average teacher missed 17.36 days out of a 186.5-day annual work schedule. … more
Oughta Be A Law? Neighbors’ Dispute Leads To Air Conditioner Noise Rule
The city of East Lansing enacted an ordinance earlier this year making it illegal to operate an air conditioning unit louder than 55 decibels at night and 60 decibels during the day as measured from the property line. … more
State Troopers Collect $400,000 Plus In Legal Pension Double-dipping Plan
Dozens of Michigan State Police employees have received payments of more than $300,000 to $400,000 in addition to their annual salaries as part of a program to encourage employees to delay taking early retirement. One Michigan State Police employee received $459,924. … more
State of Michigan’s Great Lakes Invasive Carp Challenge
If Asian carp become established in the Great Lakes, they could decimate Michigan’s fisheries and would have a significant negative impact on Michigan’s $2.43 billion fishing industry. … more
City Income Tax Proposal On November Ballot Sparks Business Revolt
A large number of East Lansing businesses have expressed opposition to an income tax proposal the city council has placed on the Nov. 7 ballot. … more
Targeted Business Subsidies vs. Broad Tax Relief
There is a massive turnover of jobs that goes on without politicians having much say or influence. … more
Taking the Pension Task Force to Task
There is a well-established pension funding principle that was missing from the recently published report of the Responsible Retirement Reform for Local Government Task Force. The principle is that governments should pay for the promises they make to employees as they make them. … more
Election Season In Detroit, And Here Comes Another Transit Scheme
One candidate hoping to become Detroit’s next mayor has proposed a magnetically levitated transit system called “skyTran.” … more
Less Than A Year After Bailout, Detroit Schools Again Scramble to Stay Afloat
The Detroit public school district had to leave 300 vacant positions unfilled, sell $10 million in property, and use a one-time transfer of $15.7 million left on the “old” district’s books to keep from racking up another round of deficits and debt. … more
Michigan’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent in July, the 16th lowest among the states. The national unemployment rate in July was 4.3 percent. Michigan had the highest unemployment rate in the nation from April 2006 to February 2010, a span of 47 months.
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MEA President Steve Cook says teachers don't have any time to go to work conferences during the school year. But the Lansing School District gave its teachers 746 days to attend conferences on school time last year.
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The city of Lansing has several retired police and fire employees who make more in retirement than they did while working. The reason? Pension calculations that reward employees who can pile up overtime as they near retirement.
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The Grand Rapids Education Association is promoting a myth that there's a teacher shortage. That district received as many as 740 applicants for one teaching position.
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Despite a Democratic state rep's claim, unflattering comparisons aren't made just about women.
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Michigan's taxes through June have generated an extra $875.9 million compared to the same time period in 2016. And some politicians said the state couldn't afford a cut to the income tax that would have cost $463 million.
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Gov. Rick Snyder told a radio station he doesn't believe in buying companies into our state. Yet, the state approved $63.8 million in 2016 to 84 companies.
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Excellent Schools Detroit was an operation that said it would fix Detroit's troubled public schools in 2010. It never happened and now Excellent Schools Detroit has closed.
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A short-term substitute teacher at Rockford Public Schools is paid $75 a day. The cost of a full-time teacher's health insurance can cost the district $71 a day.
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MEA President Steve Cook says teachers have no time to attend professional conferences during the school year. Yet, the MEA holds its own conferences during the school year. And the state law and the union contracts the MEA negotiates mandate professional development time.
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The Detroit News has granted Michigan Education Association President Steve Cook a regular forum in its editorial section to express his union’s views on the teaching profession in this state. Cook has repeatedly promoted false claims and disingenuous themes about teaching.
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