Border Security Trumps Local Economic Opportunity Is Michigan doing enough to make sure Port Huron and other border communities connect with their Canadian neighbor? by John Foren April 16, 2010 PORT HURON — It is early afternoon on a beautiful Friday, the last vestiges of ice floes are streaming down the St. Clair River and [...]
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Border Security Trumps Local Economic Opportunity
April 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Reinstitute Fairness Doctrine to Improve Public Debate
April 16th, 2010 · 8 CommentsReinstitute Fairness Doctrineto Improve Public Debate Guest Column by Robert Nelson April 16, 2010 Earlier this year, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow called for hearings on whether or not to reinstitute broadcasting’s Fairness Doctrine, or something similar to it, as a way to bring “accountability to the airwaves.” The doctrine, first adopted by the Federal Communications [...]
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Delegation Shakeup
April 15th, 2010 · No CommentsDelegation Shakeup by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service April 16, 2010 Employing the Max Bialystock school of accounting (Max being the mad genius producer of “The Producers”), we recall that electoral politics is 50 percent campaigning, 50 percent fundraising, 50 percent opposition research, 50 percent soundbites, 50 percent polling, 50 percent advertising, 50 percent negative [...]
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Spread the Sunshine
April 15th, 2010 · 1 CommentSpread the Sunshine by Tim Skubick April 16, 2010 In a sport where timing is everything, the Bernero for Governor team has racked up one impressive win after another. He was first to defend the domestic auto industry when it was under siege in the nation’s capital. He was first to argue that Lt. Governor [...]
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In Need of a Road Map
April 15th, 2010 · 2 CommentsIn Need of a Road Map by Jack Lessenberry April 16, 2010 For a perfect little picture of a generation whose lives were shattered by what has happened to the auto industry, meet the Markowicz family. Regina and Ron Markowicz are proud Detroiters to the core. They were born in the city when it was [...]
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Nothing Getting Done
April 1st, 2010 · 4 CommentsNothing Getting Done by Jack Lessenberry April 2, 2010 When it comes to responsible state government, Michigan may be on the road to disaster. Nobody seems to be able to agree on anything. The lawmakers are all scrambling to keep their jobs or find other jobs, since this is an election year for virtually every [...]
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Hammering Public Pay
February 25th, 2010 · 11 CommentsHammering Public Pay by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service February 26, 2010 To begin with, the “iron law of wages” is not really a law, not a legal law anyway. And economic scholars have never been able to determine which of the gloomy ghouls who founded classical economics — Malthus, Lasalle, Ricardo — first propounded [...]
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Bridge Blockers
February 18th, 2010 · 7 CommentsBridge Blockers by Jack Lessenberry February 19, 2010 The Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, that stalwart defender of private enterprise, wants a new, internationally controlled bridge built between the United States and Canada. So does Governor Jennifer Granholm, her political opposite, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, and the governments of Windsor, Ontario and Canada. [...]
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Tea Party Hijackers
February 18th, 2010 · 4 CommentsTea Party Hijackers by Tim Skubick February 19, 2010 America, they say, is a red and blue country divided between Democrats and Republicans. Now there is unfolding a civil war within the Grand Ole Party that threatens to marginalize the GOP. Even though the re-election bid of U.S. Senator John McCain out in Arizona appears [...]
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Blood on the Campaign Trail
February 18th, 2010 · 1 CommentBlood on the Campaign Trail by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service February 19, 2010 On Saturday, February 13, when they should have been otherwise engaged in buying flowers and candy for Valentine’s Day, friends and associates of former Governor James Blanchard started getting text messages telling them that Bob Bowman had decided not to seek [...]
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