michigan
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Can Oakland County confiscate a citizen’s personal property for $8.41 in unpaid taxes? This question will likely be answered by the Michigan Supreme Court later this year.
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Environment/Energy
California Billionaire Wants to Raise Michigan’s Electricity Bills
by Timothy Benson June 26, 2018Tom Steyer, a billionaire former hedge fund manager from San Francisco has all the passion and fiery proselytistic zeal of those who have experienced a Pauline-like conversion.
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Far more harm than benefits to workers and taxpayers.
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During the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy, the state-appointed administrator sought to cut pension payments for thousands of retired city workers in violation of Michigan’s state constitution.
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Education
Heartland on the Radio: Lennie Jarratt Discusses Students at Kellogg Univeristy Arrest for Handing Out Constitutions
by Lennie Jarratt February 1, 2017Education Project Manager Lennie Jarratt was interviewed on the Mike Seigel online radio show during the 10 pm to 11 pm hour, about Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan had several students arrested for handing out pocket US Constitutions.
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There’s no safe space at the modern college for the U.S. Constitution.
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DPS has operated its school system using a top-down, bureaucrat-run model for decades. Under this structure, teachers are protected with outdated tenure rules and rewarded for the amount of time they work in the system, rather than for performance. Innovation is scarce, and administrators, who often enjoy exorbitant salaries, are not encouraged to make the sort of radical changes that are needed to turn the city’s schools around.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Bogus EPA is Causing Everyone Real Problems
by Seton Motley April 8, 2016Flint Was Not the First: A Look at the History of the EPA & Why We Should Have Predicted Flint: “(Virginia Tech professor Marc) Edwards…opened the case much wider, referring to disasters from nearly a decade ago in which the EPA engaged in willful negligence. He pointed specifically to the crisis in Washington, D.C. in 2004 in which the water conditions were drastically worse than that in Flint.