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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Deja Vu all over again: Standard & Poor’s again warns Michigan GOP to stop playing games

March 12, 2007 – 11:50 am

Standard & Poor’s Rating Service today issued a public warning that our state government needs to get its budgetary act together or face even lower ratings. And the report’s author says that, “from a credit perspective, this is probably the most important legislative session in more than a decade.”
While political disputes are always accompanied by [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Budget, Economy, Issues | Comments (0)

Michigan budget update

March 11, 2007 – 11:55 am

The good folks over at Michigan Liberal have been keeping track of the doubletalk and delay coming out of the Michigan Senate Republican caucus.
Essentially it comes down to this: Governor Granholm introduced her budget plan well over a month ago and introduced twenty-three bills to put that plan into action. In response, Mike Bishop, Senate [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Budget, Economy, Issues | Comments (0)

Another bottled water plant in NW Michigan?

March 9, 2007 – 11:59 am

The Traverse City Record-Eagle is today reporting that officials from Kalkaska’s Downtown Development Authority are planning to approach Nestle Waters about building another bottled water plant in Northwest Michigan, this one taking water that feeds the Manistee River.
This debate, which is possible because of the so-called Water Legacy Act that opened up Michigan’s publicly-owned lakes, [...]

By Dan Scripps | Posted in Issues, Natural Resources | Comments (0)

Latham & Watkins named “Law Firm of the Decade”

March 8, 2007 – 12:06 pm

Michigan can’t seem to beat Ohio State (or win a bowl game for that matter), but at least my old law firm is doing well. Here’s what the award judges from the international legal magazine Legal Business had to say about my former employer:
“After conquering New York in the first part of the 1990’s, Latham [...]

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It’s the little things

March 7, 2007 – 12:10 pm

Today’s Record-Eagle is reporting that the Traverse City Commission is once again set to debate so-called “Granny Flats” – small apartments, often located above the garage, that have historically been used by families to house elderly relatives who are no longer able or desire to live on their own, but who don’t need or want [...]

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