Michigan Votes Forum

Two Democrats voted 'no' to protest last month's vote on right to work.

Full text of Senate Resolution 13, urge no "Presidents Day" holiday for state employees. A resolution to urge the Governor to work with the Civil Service Commission to require that state employees either work on President’s Day or take the day off as an unpaid holiday to reflect the state’s dire financial challenges. Whereas, Michigan’s

More middle class welfare.

This seems to be a good faith effort to bring some improvement to a thankless task.

It's unenforceable.

get rid of licensing and let these people come up with their own certification system if they want

This is reasonable.

So is this really the answer, or is it just either a postponement of the inevitable bankruptcy or the first step of a nationalization? Does the reported imposition of a raft of new labor and "green car" mandates suggest the latter?

The Lansing political esablishment appears prepared to adopt a package of bills that allow using a portion of future local property tax revenue growth and state road tax money (gas tax, vehicle registration tax) to subsidize some variety of Detroit "ight rail" or streetcars. What do you think?

So University of Michigan economists predict that this state will lose 108,000 jobs next year. Well, like the song says, you don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows. But, are economic predictions that include such precise figures at all credible? I mean, what if some miracle occurred and the legislature and governor quickly adopted