tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64123211215714645162011-08-18T08:16:54.896-07:00Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03231842526160202846noreply@blogger.comBlogger1212542.821233-84.460999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412321121571464516.post-62484884272182229002011-03-15T09:59:00.000-07:002011-03-15T10:07:10.030-07:002011-03-15T10:07:10.030-07:00

Why Synder's Emergency Financial Management (EFM) plan is bad?  If a city is broke, don't we need a plan to get the finances in order? There is already a law that allows emergency financial takeover. It was enacted by legislature during Blanchard years. It does not go to the extreme that this bill does.  There are already bankruptcy laws that cover public entities. This bill removes

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Dewitt Township trustees have decided they want to sign a 425 agreement with the Lansing and the Capital Airport. Unfortunately, 425 agreements have typically benefitted a few at the expense of the many by shifting development from urban areas into greenspaces. Seldom do the more rural township taxpayers benefit since 425 agreements usually lead to increased costs in public services to the area

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How annoying is this -- Being asked to take one for the team; then finding out the "team" means the top .05% of Governor Snyder's executives. Snyder gave John Nixon a double in salary when he hired him from Utah where he was doing same high level budgeting ($124,200 to $280,000 annually). Now consider the excuses for this deal when Michigan's budget is supposed to be so awful. Republican  

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That was a trick. There are no answers here. I just knew such a bold and definitive headline would be more attractive to a potential reader than a headline that said -- "I'm not sure exactly why we lost, but I know some of the influences in voters and know that it was a painful blow." Too long, too boring. Readers-voters-humans want quick answers, easy solutions, and simple explanations. Maybe

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Pamela Drake is a thoughtful, kind, and hardworking woman who wants to represent all of Bath, Laingsburg, and Ovid. Her knowledge of taxation, public health and other issues is much deeper than her opponents. While Glardon can spout pro-farming slogans, he refused to a live debate. Pamela knows the difference between a law or tax break that benefits a big corporate animal operation (CAFO) versus

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It's time again for local residents to begin analyzing their choices for public office -- both in the voting booth, but perhaps more importantly, in the run-up to the election.  The Clinton County Dems received the following letter from a member who had this to say in a post published on their website.           Again, the rhetoric runs thick. Television news has been driving home the mantra

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This week Michigan Farm Bureau sent messages out that served multinational corporate influenceres much more than Clinton County's farmers. They re-served the mega-rich's propaganda against the Health Care Reform Bill. They were misguided. Our rural communities, farmers, farmer-workers and their families need healthcare choices now and there a lot of benefits to them in this bill. Too bad the

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Why does a local-yocal care about our U.S. Constitution being mangled to provide profit-laden companies and powerful groups with individual human rights? Because the Constitution was intended to provide protection of the least-powerful individual's rights and small rural communities in Clinton County (as well as lower and middle income consumers) are even more defenseless against multinational

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Clinton County residents and government officials had a unique opportunity to get information and network with others at the upcoming Regional Visioning Workshop hosted by Greening Mid-Michigan. The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission and Michigan Trails and Greenways Alliance were involved. Who might be interested? Families with children or retirees looking for low-cost healthy recreation,

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It's interesting that corporations express outrage when individual citizens and our elected government agencies "clog up the courts" to address a grievance. Yet, here again, a corporation is trying to use the court system to increase its profits at taxpayers' expense. This time its the landfill company who wants to push around the locals who currently have control over how much garbage can be put

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Clinton County hosts 2 landfills -- a disproportionate number given the County's population. Our past leadership allowed us to become the garbage dump of mid-Michigan. People driving northbound on US-27 wrinkle their noses shortly after crossing Lake Lansing Road. Drivers entering Clinton County on I-96 at the north-east end will occasionally get a big awful whiff of the Landfill in Grand Ledge.

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Two a.m. is probably not the best time to start a blog, especially a political blog that could be picked apart by critics in the daylight. However, 2:00 a.m. is when volunteers like myself (and other progressives and liberal commoners) are forced to find time and resources. We don't have super-wealthy corporations pushing an agenda with well-equipped and paid staff to produce polished essays and

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