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  • 01-01-2001 12:00 AM

    2008 House Bill 6530 (Mandate “community benefits agreements” on road projects )

    Introduced in the House on October 15, 2008

    Click here to view bill details.
  • 10-20-2008 11:26 AM In reply to

    Motor City Shakedown

    This bill would allow cities or any local government to extort a big bribe from the state as a condition of approving a big-deal highway project within city limits. Cities could shake down road users for new sewers, roads, noise walls and landscaping on their own behalf. Or, they could name any number of private community organizations to receive the shakedown payments, for new parks, housing, or hospitals. State taxpayers might have to support the Kwame Kilpatrick Memorial Hospital, or the Monica Conyers Community Foundation, before they could drive on a widened highway in Detroit. Or, they would have to pay for the Greater Grayling Snowmobile Racetrack before I-75 is improved up north.
  • 11-04-2008 12:23 PM In reply to

    This Oughta Work Great

    Let's see.. they want to make them hire "workers from “communities with high unemployment and low income;" otherwise known as uneducated slackers. "mandate “living wages”" to force them to pay said slackers way more than they are worth. This doesn't sound like a feasible business plan to me.
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