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Gov. Whitmer Says Michigan Carmaker Jobs Up; They’re Not

And subsidized job projections not the same as actual jobs

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Detroit School’s Response On Costly Travel Expenses Raise More Questions

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Moving Company Reports More Customers Leave Michigan Than Move Here

State will likely lose another seat in Congress after next census

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Motorists Still Paying For Engler And Granholm’s Road Debt

Payments on those bonds use transportation tax dollars that would otherwise go to fix today’s roads

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Water Bottler A Drop In The Trillions Of Gallons That Fall On Michigan

State appears awash in water

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‘The Nation’ Blames Michigan GOP For Cuts In School Budgets Signed By Dem Governor

Cuts came during single-state recession; funding only higher since GOP gained trifecta in 2011

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Bill Extends Criminal Sanctions To Eavesdropping Via Siri, Alexa, Smart TVs

Law’s definitions of eavesdropping, surveillance, secret records date from 1966

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More Inaccurate Media On Amount Michigan Taxpayers Pay For Schools

Reports do reveal what school establishments want public to think about how much they get

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Nature Outstrips Commerce In Discharging Great Lakes Water

St. Lawrence River removes more Great Lakes water in two minutes than bottling plant does in a year

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This Land Is Your Land - But Under These Bills Not The Water

'Public trust doctrine' and 'collective' ownership mean government permission required

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CapCon’s Top 10 Stories For 2019

Road Fix That Wasn’t, Gun-Free Zones, 1,100 Windmills Won’t Replace This Coal Plant

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More Michigan Internet Purchases Taxed Starting New Year’s Day

Some out-of-state sales tax collections began earlier; this new law adds another $80 million a year

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Michigan Nurse Sues Teamsters For Taking Illegal Union Dues

Genesys Medical also on the hook for going along

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Decade’s Top 10 Legislators For Missing Votes: 9 Represented Detroit

Site that tracks state representative and senator yeas and nays also shows not present

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‘It’s Not Getting Better Here': Teacher On Life After Right-To-Work

But his pay is up $9,300 over five years

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DTE’s Renewable Energy Plan Won’t Satisfy Green Groups

Another critic says the plan calls for ‘more expensive, less reliable energy’

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70 Times Gunshots Fired On School Grounds In Michigan Since 1970

Michigan schools tax, borrow and spend big for security

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How Did Detroit Schools Spend $286,596 On LA Conference?

Answer awaits district’s overdue response to open records law request

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A Record In Snyder’s Last Budget, Transportation Budget Down in Gov. Whitmer’s First

Whitmer’s 45-cent tax proposal got no traction, and she vetoed the Republicans’ road budget fix

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Simplistic ‘Teacher Shortage’ Claims Hype, But Big Challenges In Some Areas

‘The issues arise when we have openings in the ‘specialized’ areas’

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Study: Legislators Authorize Penalties, Unelected Bureaucrats Decide Where They Apply

Accumulated regulations ‘fiendishly complex, sometimes contradictory, or incomprehensible and unenforceable’

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A Cautionary Tale About Job Promises And Corporate Subsidies

GM’s promised 6,000 Poletown jobs never appeared; Ford announces 3,000

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For First Time Since 1949, US Exported More Oil Than It Imported

Energy production here may exceed domestic demand by 30% in 2030

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Persistent Accounting Failures Risk Benton Harbor Schools’ Federal Money

‘Control activities ... inconsistent, ineffective, and in some cases, nonexistent’

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Michigan’s Largest Teachers Union Got Nearly $500k From Collections Agencies

MEA has lost tens of thousands of members, is pursuing them by ‘any legal means’

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