Aha! Eureka! Gadzooks! Zoinks! While I’ve been under the impression that the Governor and State House leadership want to invest in Michigan, and Mike Bishop and the Senate Republicans want to cut Michigan down, I now see I’ve been mistaken. Both parties want investment. We just define it differently: “‘If we invest this money into [...]
Mozambique, Jack Lessenberry, GOP cuts, and the budget crisis
May 16, 2007 – 11:26 am
So it’s been a while since my last post, and I guess I’m coming out swinging for the fences. Today, PRI’s program The World program featured a story on American philanthropist Greg Carr, who’s spending $40 million to promote eco-tourism in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park. In explaining how he’s been able to convince locals in [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
