Lower than Slugs

March 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments

There is no constitutional right to good government.

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Path to Redevelopment

February 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments

Without municipal consolidations, how can the devastated Pontiacs and Flints ever survive?

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Economic Success Doesn’t Just Happen

March 31st, 2011 · 3 Comments

Oakland wouldn’t be the outstanding county it is without Brooks Patterson’s leadership.

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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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Brooks & Me: Seventeen Years as Oakland Co. Spokesman

January 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Brooks & Me: Seventeen Years as Oakland Co. Spokesman Crisis communications to private pranks and innovative public policies by Robert Dustman January 16, 2010 Last October 2 I walked out of the Executive Office Building for the last time as Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson’s media and communications officer. Walking to my car, I [...]

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