A Decade of Astonishing Fiscal Irresponsibility

February 3rd, 2011 · 6 Comments

Three new reports on the state’s eroding finances tell several deeply troubling stories.

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A Dent in the Wall of Distrust

July 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

A Dent in the Wall of Distrust by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service July 2, 2010 In black and white kinescopes, a reed-thin Johnny Carson comes back to us from the days in the 1950s when he was being introduced to America as the host of a game show called Who Do You Trust? A [...]

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Hammering Public Pay

February 25th, 2010 · 11 Comments

Hammering 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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Still Addressing the Economy

December 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Still Addressing the Economy by Gongwer News Service January 01, 2010 Governor Jennifer Granholm’s final State of the State address is set for Wednesday, February 3. We can guess that much of it will deal with the state’s ongoing economic malaise, the unfortunate condition she has had to deal with during her entire tenure. It [...]

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Blown Away

November 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Blown Away by Tim Skubick November 20, 2009 Out of the blue, the governor was asked what title she would use if she wrote a book about her tenure in Lansing. How about Blown Away? You’ll recall that was the line she used in one of her State of the State speeches as she gushed [...]

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Inaction Fuels Frustration

November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Inaction Fuels Frustration by Gongwer News Service November 20, 2009 When he published his classic novel on the Middle Eastern conflict, “The Little Drummer Girl,” author John LeCarre was accused of being pro-Palestinian by Israelis and pro-Israeli by the Palestinians. How could one choose a side, LeCarre asked, when both sides are right? So it [...]

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Pressing On

November 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Pressing On University publishers tackle digital revolution by Jean B. Eggemeyer November 16, 2009 The Model T and the Amazon Kindle may share space in the history books of the future as technologies that transformed an industry. And, rather than printed books, those future histories are likely to be electronic files. Gabriel Dotto, Michigan State [...]

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Appoint Judges

November 14th, 2009 · 9 Comments

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of six monthly columns in which Craig Ruff proposes far-reaching proposals to revamp state government if voters in November 2010 choose to convene a constitutional convention. Find the previous columns at http://domemagazine.com/columnlist/. Appoint Judges by Craig Ruff November 16, 2009 Here I am again trying to [...]

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