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Organizers of a statewide campaign to repeal Michigan’s controversial emergency manager law say they have collected close to 250,000 signatures from voters who want to see the issue on the November ballot. Michigan Forward chairman Brandon Jessup says the Stand [...] Of the nine film productions up for best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards, five received financial incentives from state governments. But if you want to find out exactly how much help the films got, only some of the states will come [...] The Supreme Court cast doubt Tuesday on the future of affirmative action at the nation’s colleges and universities, agreeing to hear an appeal from a white student in Texas who seeks an end to “racial preferences” in college admissions.The decision [...] House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-M14) will host a Democratic Judiciary forum concerning the legal implications of the Emergency Manager Law. The forum will start at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February, 21, 2012 and will be held [...] 
On January 20 the progressive think tank Michigan Forward and the Detroit branch of the NAACP sent a joint letter to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder expressing concern over Public Act 4, the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act. [...] A decision by an Ingham County judge to nullify the work of financial review teams in Highland Park and Detroit has sparked disagreement in Lansing over what the ruling means. Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette ruled the state-appointed teams’ [...] Michigan companies in the advanced and renewable energy sector today announced the creation of the Energy Innovation Business Council, a new trade group focused on growing Michigan’s advanced energy industry, and unveiled a benchmark study on their sector’s jobs and [...] Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced Michigan will join at least 40 other states in a multi-billion dollar nationwide settlement with five of the nation’s largest banks/mortgage servicers in response to allegations of faulty foreclosure processes and poor servicing [...] FREEP.COM – The group making a recommendation to Gov. Rick Snyder on whether to appoint an emergency manager in Detroit must meet in public, an Ingham County judge ruled this afternoon. Ingham County Circuit Judge William Collette said the emergency [...] Ingham County Circuit Court Chief Judge William Collete ruled Thursday that Michigan’s emergency manager financial review boards must open their meetings to the public. The ruling is a response to a legal challenge filed by Highland Park School board member and AFSCME Council 25 [...] |
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