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Monday in the Sphere: July 20

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 07:23:53 AM EST
Tags: Sphere (all tags)

The Blog Prof: Granholm, Dems going after personal and homestead exemptions, food and prescription sales tax to "fix" budget deficit! Won't call these tax increases!

Daily Grit: Michigan Needs Sim-City Type Game to Let Citizens Trim State Budget

Free Michigan: An Update From Texas

Hall of Record: Michigan Liberal - This Does Explain Much

The Western Right: Kalamazoo to Become Sanctuary City

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Monday in the Sphere: July 20 | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)

The Lansing Journal had... (none / 0) (#1)
by KG One on Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 11:39:14 AM EST

...a cheap knock-off a while back that did pretty much the same thing.

No GUI. Mostly text-based. VERY much skewed towards keeping the status quo. From what I remembered when I tried it, it never looked at the ancillary effects of reducing the budget (i.e. business growth increasing revenue).

Probably why they pulled it.

This is an interesting argument given that... (none / 0) (#4)
by KG One on Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 03:28:53 PM EST

The City of Detroit and the People's Republic of Ann Arbor also have sanctuary city laws on their books.

Actually, a better question here: Given the fact that cities and townships supposedly bound by the state constitution, and those elected are bound to uphold state law, who would be responsible for brooming them out of office?

County Prosecutor?

Secretary of State?

Good points. (none / 0) (#7)
by KG One on Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 08:38:03 AM EST

From what I've been told, the AG and his supporters are lurkers here, he is always looking for things to get him in the headlines, this would be a logical next step.

Can you imagine the headlines when he orders the arrests of the entire city councils & mayors of Ann Arbor & Detroit?

The image of Jennifer Granholm & John Cherry being taken away in handcuffs on tomorrows front page across Michigan?

I doubt that he has the wherewithall to follow through, but if he did...

Monday in the Sphere: July 20 | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)