Michigan Votes Forum

An Open Letter To The Sponsor and Co-sponsors of this bill: A lot of us place great value in our local elected leaders, people we often know on a first name basis, to competently take care of matters that mean the most to us. With higher levels of government the bureaucracies become more faceless and impersonal, and often, less competent and more prone

Do these trails generate revenue, or are we simply asking the state to take on a greater administrative burden with what seems like a whole lot of make-work? Why do we have to expand the miles of trails by 15% by 2022??? Maybe Mother Nature would like to be left alone without all the horse traffic, ATVs, snowmobiles, campers, and potential fire starters

I wonder if Mr. MacMaster remembers we sent him to Lansing to try to curb spending, not find ways to multiply it. Instead of forking over millions(?) on expensive dental hygiene appointments, I'll bet we could spend a tenth or a hundreth as much by sending every family in Michigan a bottle of Listerine and a roll of dental floss and still get the

Are Gold-Star families really crying out for a section of highway--that most of them will probably never use--to be named in their honor? Why not name it "The Fallen Hero Highway" which would encompass fire fighters, policemen and ordinary Janes and Joes who died trying to make the world a better place? Why not name it "The Everyone's

The Tuskegee Airmen deserve recognition, no doubt, but how on earth does one connect those guys to this highway?

Warning to the wise: "Greenway" is often a covert word for "land grab." Think Kelo vs. New London, where private property was nabbed for "the greater good..." ...like a Walmart, or golf course. I'd like to know a lot more about who's behind this alliance.

from Child'sDoctor: "I ask again, why are physicians being singled out?" Isn't it obvious? Cuz you got deep pockets, Daddy-o. But hey, that doesn't stop the Democrats from trying to take more taxes from the tips of waitresses and bus boys, etc. Wherever there's a potential revenue stream, the unscrupulous Dems will attempt

I saw the answer to this on an episode of "Law and Order" or some other equally vacuous piece of prime time propaganda the other night... a lady's husband dies of natural causes, so she throws him the freezer in order to keep collecting his Social Security and other benefits. It was all she had to live on, yadda...

Democrats, I believe, are unanimously Constitutional dimwits when it comes to legislating... it's sad to see so many Republicans following suit. 1.) An inattentive store clerk may forget to attach a tag when I buy the keg, then the owner will stick me with a fine when I return the keg. 2.) If I throw a party with a keg of beer, some drunken sot