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• With school aid fund cuts final, schools sharpen knives to carve budgets

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Schools across the state are making headlines as they prepare to ax millions of dollars half way through their 2009-2010 budget year. The cuts are necessitated by a state budget passed in Oct. which resulted in significant cuts to the school aid funding allowance, as well as a line item veto by Gov. Jennifer Granholm ...
  5 days ago

• Granholm signs power shutoff protection bill

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  As the state prepares for its first real blast of winter over the Thanksgiving holiday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law a series of bills that provides increased protection for Michigan residents against having their gas or electric shut off during the coldest months. A press release from the governor’s ...
  5 days ago

• Chair of Michigan low-income housing board has defaults on millions in loans

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  The chair of the state agency directed to work with home owners facing default is himself in default to the tune of millions of dollars, reports the Detroit News. Bernard Glieberman, chairman of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority , has defaulted on millions of dollars in loans for his company ...
  6 days ago

• Granholm faces broad opposition to government restructuring order

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Gov. Jennifer Granholm (Creative Commons photo by Matt Hampel via Flickr) Gov. Jennifer Granholm is facing opposition to her Oct. 8 executive order that restructures government by combining the departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality . The order also removed the power of the Agriculture ...
  1 week ago

• State unemployment rate drops slightly

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Gov. Jennifer Granholm said today that new unemployment figures expected to be released today will show that Michigan’s unemployment rate dropped slightly from 15.3 percent to 15.1 percent. Not exactly the roaring 20s again, but every little bit helps amid the doom and gloom of the last couple years.
  1 week ago

• Letter from Lansing: The Promise Will Rise Again! (Maybe)

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 138
  As the FY 2010 budget battle grows smaller and smaller in our rear view mirrors, many have forgotten that the Legislature is still working to reinstore funds lost to the draconian cuts imposed by the Republican controlled State Senate. While all the budgets have been approved, Governor Granholm has continued to ...
  1 week ago

• Outside the Beltway: $1.2 Billion for Michigan, But No Stimulus Jobs Created

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  Last year, with Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm standing by his side, President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed the importance of rapidly passing a stimulus package, described his intense focus on job creation, and noted that a new president can have an “enormous impact” on the economy. This week, The Detroit ...
  1 week ago

• Budget strains pit students against MSU administrators

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  EAST LANSING — Facing the continued pressure of dwindling state money and philanthropic donations, Michigan State University has proposed a series of cuts to its budget which will eliminate numerous programs, and scale back others. And that move has some students up in arms. “We’re devaluing our ...
  1 week ago

• Granholm says she is ‘angry’ over Promise Scholarship elimination

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Gov. Jennifer Granholm released a video message Monday about the Michigan Promise Scholarship. In the message, she says she is “angry” about the scholarship’s removal from a final budget she signed into law in October. The scholarship is going to be a special focus of the governor as she tours several ...
  1 week ago

• More stimulus lies: Michigan

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 579
  Michigans economy has been in a free-fall for several years. The Great Lake State has the nations highest unemployment rate. More than any state, Michigan needs jobs. But Barack Obamas stimulus, which was supposed to have kept the nations unemployment rate below eight percent, is a failure. The unemployment rate is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Golf developers face new scrutiny in Lake Mich. park privatization

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  BENTON HARBOR — While this southwest Michigan city’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course opened this summer only partially constructed, more than 2,500 visitors have hit the links in what used to be the public dunes along Lake Michigan. And just as expanded operations ramp up into the 2010 season, concerns ...
  2 weeks ago

• VP Biden lends fundraising muscle to two Michigan Dems

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Vice President Joe Biden swooped into Detroit yesterday for some political fundraising, and of course, a chili dog at Lafayette Coney Island. (Check out the shot of Biden wolfing down the coney — as Gov. Jennifer Granholm watches and daintily sips a soda — by the Detroit Free Press photographer Andre ...
  2 weeks ago

• Joe Biden Chows Down In Detroit [LOLCars]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 730
  This picture of Vice President Joe Biden earlier today at Detroits Lafayette Coney Island inhaling a hot dog shows hes actually got room in his mouth for something other than his foot. [ Detroit Free Press via @Justin_Hyde ]
  2 weeks ago

• Trip’s morning reading

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Yes, New Mexico’s budget is in the toilet, but California is the poster child for dysfunction. With a multi-billion dollar shortfall, a Legislature often stymied by bickering and The Governator at the helm, California keeps its capital reporters busy But dullness might be a greatly appreciated commodity about now ...
  2 weeks ago

• Granholm offers ideas for structural reform of funding public schools

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Immediately following the announcement of a new multi-million dollar teacher training grant from the Kellogg Foundation, Gov. Granholm fielded questions from a horde of journalists at the Detroit Science Center. And the main topic wasn’t Michigan’s shiny new teacher fellowship. Instead, reporters asked mostly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Granholm touts ‘blockbuster’ partnership with Kellogg Foundation

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  DETROIT — Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced that “millions of dollars going to hundreds of fellowships” would soon bolster the ranks of Michigan’s public school math and science teachers courtesy of a $16.7 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation . Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced a new teacher ...
  3 weeks ago

• Granholm will sign House school aid measure

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Thursday night that if the state Senate passes the bill the House passed to use $184 million more in federal stimulus funds to reduce the depth of cuts for K-12 education in this year’s budget, she’ll sign it. But she said the same thing we said about it last evening: Gov. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Idled state troopers stay idle for now

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  More fallout from the all-cuts budget passed by the legislature: Dozens of state police officers who were expected to be called back to work next week will stay on the sidelines while the government decides whether revenues will allow them to keep the troopers on the job long term. The Detroit News reports : The ...
  3 weeks ago

• State agencies in MI could get 20% cut in next budget

  
  Apostle Islands Navigator — Authority: 156
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan agencies are being told they could see up to a 20 percent cut in the next budget year on top of the 10 percent cut they took this year.Liz Boyd, Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s spokeswoman, said Tuesday that departments are being asked “to put together plans that reflect a 20 percent ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lawmakers scramble to find solutions to plummeting state revenues

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 636
  LANSING — As the state is bracing for the worst for the coming budget 2010-2011 year, many are also working to find answers. In an interview with Michigan Messenger on Monday night, Rep. Joan Bauer , a Democrat from Lansing who serves on the Appropriations Committee , said the state has to look at long term tax ...
  3 weeks ago

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