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State Republicans should go to the polls Tuesday with two missions: Pick a presidential candidate capable of leading this nation to prosperity and stability and choose a nominee who will give the GOP a fighting chance of defeating President Barack Obama this fall.
Seventeen state-qualified bond election applications have been approved by Michigan’s Department of Treasury this year, and 12 of those will come before voters next week.
Our nation’s fiscal situation and the failure of the Congressional Budget Super Committee last year could trigger across-the-board multi-billion-dollar cuts to medical research nationally and right here in Michigan.
Should unemployment (and welfare) benefits go on forever without recipients having to give anything back in return? The list must be endless of things to do, things that need to be fixed, people that need some help.
Nolan Finley’s Feb. 12 column, “Michigan is breeding poverty,” fails the logic test. In fact, it’s akin to blaming crime victims for high crime rates or jobless workers for high unemployment rates.
Let us be honest here and just say that the reason for right-to-work laws is to drive down wages in the name of competition. Unfortunately, the competition is in China and other Far East areas where $10 a day would be an impossible amount to expect, much less $10 per hour.
Maybe the killing of 9-month-old Delric Miller will be the murder that at last makes Detroit scream “Enough!” The baby, killed when a vanload of thugs sprayed a west side home with up to 30 bullets, should become the example that mobilizes this community against the senseless slaughter of its citizens.
More than 400 graduate research assistants at the University of Michigan got a little good news last week in their fight against being forced into a union. The state Senate introduced a bill that would settle the matter by clearly defining the research assistants as students — not public employees.
This month the “Obama Budget” found enough money to put $150 million toward a nuclear fusion project to be built in France, making a new long term commitment to that $23 billion experiment, but the White House could only find $22 million for the previous commitment (of $55 million) to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University.
Missiles are pointed at Social Security and Medicare, the broad-based programs for older Americans. Some are stealth missiles. Some are misguided missiles. But both parties are pointing them.
Is America in decline? No way, says President Barack Obama, proudly speaking of our standing overseas. But some grim new reports on our educational gaps remind us that decline is like charity — it begins at home.
Michigan’s unemployment rate continues to decline, now at the state’s lowest level since September 2008. Michigan also added 67,000 net new jobs in 2011, including in manufacturing and professional and business services.
Mitt Romney’s plan of a managed bankruptcy would have worked to save the auto industry with a simple guarantee loan from the federal government with no strings attached, such as the loan guarantee given to Chrysler in 1979 when they faced bankruptcy “Romney: Turn GM proceeds over to the taxpayers,” Feb. 14).
Top corporate executives are making a strong case that Michigan's public universities and community colleges can be key drivers of economic growth if lawmakers and Gov. Rick Snyder can find a way to significantly increase the government's investment in higher education over the next decade.
Michigan has lost 143,000 jobs since President Obama took office. Over a quarter of a million workers have left the labor force. Michigan's official ...
Two coming developments, one dismal and one excellent, pertain to America's memory of a great man. One of several oversight panels soon will consider a ...
Obamacare is the third major assault on civil liberties in the past half-century, and may be the one that erases the space carved out by the Constitution where ...
It's a school choice debate redux in the Michigan House of Representatives. Just two months ago, lawmakers faced lifting the cap on charter schools. They did, ...
Sad sentencing; Bus service blues; Change Pakistan policy
This week Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation that gives communities the ability to enforce local ordinances targeting “superdrunk” drivers.
Scott Conroy in Real Clear Politics: Mitt Romney’s path in Michigan will not be easy. For one thing, voters are now four more years removed from 1966 — the ...
One item in the annals of American exceptionalism is how exceptionally badly behaved American children are. We who hang around international airports often ...
Outta my mind on a Saturday moanin'
The state Michigan is like a losing sports franchise on the rise. In a little more than a year, it has swept from the bottom of the pile to a top-10 ranking in ...
A judge’s order Wednesday that overthrows the state’s financial review decisions in Highland Park schools has only created a strong dose of confusion. Plus, it ...
When you are in a hole, stop digging. When you have a deep cut, stop the bleeding. And when you are pulling yourself out of an economic depression, stop the ...
“It’s going to be better than Bob-Lo,” was the reaction of one Allen Park resident when the Unity Studio and Village project was announced less than three ...
Re: the Feb. 2 Think commentary “Crushing the Dream:” — As a junior in high school looking forward to the future, it’s baffling to hear that governors and ...
The sudden death of Grammy award-winning singer Whitney Houston has brought out a multitude of tributes, many of which alluded to her battle with drugs. For ...
Mitt Romney’s piece in the Feb. 14 Detroit News, “Taxpayers should get GM shares’ proceeds” was truly reckless, detached from reality and dishonest.
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