Entries Tagged as 'Oakland County'

End of an Era for Pontiac, Flint

September 30th, 2010 · 2 Comments

End of an Era for Pontiac, Flint by Neil Munro October 1, 2010 In most of Michigan, as in the nation, the economy is struggling though improving. But in such venerable factory towns as Flint and Pontiac, a golden age has ended. There is no way they are returning in the foreseeable future to the [...]

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Sorting through the Clutter

July 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Sorting through the Clutter by Neil Munro August 1, 2010 These columns have been about issues, not about the author. This one’s a bit of an exception. The daily-newspaper industry that gave me 46 years of good and relatively secure jobs has been on a slippery downward slope roughly since my editorial-writing position was eliminated [...]

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Dusting Off a Successful Tax Strategy

May 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Dusting Off a Successful Tax Strategy by Neil Munro June 1, 2010 Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom recently demanded, “In my Detroit, you cannot sit on vacant property in major development zones. Either you can develop it, or get fined so badly you’ll sell it to someone who will.” Among other things, the Motor [...]

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Road to Ruin

March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Road to Ruin by Neil Munro April 1, 2010 Our Lansing lawmakers are on the brink of one of their periodic road-funding fiascos. The fuel tax rate approved in 1997 generates far too little money these days to keep our highways and byways up to snuff. Citizens are complaining. Yet the senators and representatives clearly [...]

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Banking on Michigan

January 28th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Banking on Michigan by Neil Munro February 1, 2010 Michigan residents are used to sudden and dizzying collapses in the car and truck industry and also are used to seeing it recover, stronger than ever. But we’re beginning to realize, with a sinking feeling, that this time it’s different — and we fear there’s no [...]

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Entering a Depression

November 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Entering a Depression by Neil Munro December 1, 2009 Let’s face it. We’re no longer in an economic recession. The economy here in Michigan is entering a depression. What we’re embarking on is more comparable to our plight in the 1930s than, for example, to the very deep but short downturn of the early 1980s. [...]

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