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Tag: Granholm - Cherry

Lansing Lefties pushing a pair of new taxes

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 06:47:59 AM EST
Tags: 2010, Cherry, Granholm, Granholm - Cherry, tax hike, income tax, beer tax (all tags)

It's the day after Easter. If you're like me, yesterday featured some awesome family time, a trip to church (for many of you, the only time this year... shame!) since, you know, all that Jesus conquering death stuff is sort of important to this particular holiday, and heaping helpings of chocolate and jelly beans.

Because apparently rabbit shaped confections are also important to this particular holiday.

After a day like that there's little more I'd like to do this morning than revel in the realization that He is Risen (!), enjoy the fact that I've been blessed with an awesome family and roll around on the ground like a dying bear as I battle mightily to digest the giant ball of sugar currently sitting like a rock in the pit of my stomach.

Alas. That would be too easy. Can't even browse the morning's headlines without being shaken violently back to the reality of John Cherry's vision for Michigan.

Two new tax-hike schemes in one morning? Say it ain't so!

Read on...

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Saving lives through rotten economic policy

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 07:36:34 AM EST
Tags: Cherry, Granholm, Granholm - Cherry, outbound moves, snow, economy, tax hikes, pride (all tags)

No surprise that folks are leaving Detroit. As we've discussed recently, they're leaving Michigan, period. Still, every time I read an expert carve the numbers up in new and creative ways I'm staggered a bit.

The Detroit News details the latest report this morning, this one from the Brookings Institution, that shows most big cities are home to about 55% of the total jobs in the metro area, the remaining 45% more than ten miles from the "city center."

Detroit is home to only 23% of the jobs in her metro area, with 77% more than 10 miles away, and the effect that has on native Detroiters is pretty heavy.

"Job sprawl is detrimental to employment and raises a lot of challenges," said author Elizabeth Kneebone, whose study of employment trends mapped 98 metropolitan areas, from 1998-2006.
It means many low-income and minority residents are often isolated from job opportunities, she said, and it adds to commute times and expenses.

On a morning like this, that's an especially frustrating reality. We're talking, what, five inches of snow in the D? Love these Michigan springs. But... and this is a big but... John Cherry may actually have a silver lining in all of this.

The Democrats presumptive 2010 Gubernatorial candidate has been running around the state telling voters and newspaper editorial boards (those still in operation) both that the record of his administration these last six-plus years is a strong one and that he'll be proud to run on that record next fall.

The Associated Press offers a headline this morning that provides the man with the perfect "I told you so!"

Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels

That, my friends, is the way you find a silver lining.

Read on...

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