Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Democrats say they're worried Gov. Snyder's school funding ideas sound too much like vouchers
Democrats say they're worried Gov. Snyder's school funding ideas sound too much like vouchers | MLive.com
Democrats say they’re concerned that the team starting discussions on overhauling school funding is looking at ways to bring a voucher-like system to the state, but they’re open to seeing what the panel comes up with – and who is asked to assist.
Leaders of a Lansing foundation overseeing the plan say they’re looking to write a bill that would allow money to more closely follow children and offer families more educational choices.
Democrats say they’re concerned that the team starting discussions on overhauling school funding is looking at ways to bring a voucher-like system to the state, but they’re open to seeing what the panel comes up with – and who is asked to assist.
Leaders of a Lansing foundation overseeing the plan say they’re looking to write a bill that would allow money to more closely follow children and offer families more educational choices.
Smart meters: State mulls health, privacy risks of new electricity meters being installed at Michigan homes
Smart meters: State mulls health, privacy risks of new electricity meters being installed at Michigan homes | MLive.com
The Michigan Public Service Commission recently released a staff report that generally supported smart meter deployment but recommended utilities allow customers to opt out of using the new technology.
The Michigan Public Service Commission recently released a staff report that generally supported smart meter deployment but recommended utilities allow customers to opt out of using the new technology.
Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car
Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car | NewsBusters.org
And with GM’s new 60-day return policy, it looks like you can buy a Volt and cash the $7,500 bribe check.
Then return the Volt - and keep the $7,500 bribe cash.
How’s that for Taxpayer coin stewardship?
And with GM’s new 60-day return policy, it looks like you can buy a Volt and cash the $7,500 bribe check.
Then return the Volt - and keep the $7,500 bribe cash.
How’s that for Taxpayer coin stewardship?
How Close Are We to New Great Depression?
How Close Are We to New Great Depression? - Business News - CNBC
“If this credit bubble pops, the depression could be so severe that I don’t think our civilization could survive it.”
“If this credit bubble pops, the depression could be so severe that I don’t think our civilization could survive it.”
OMB's Stockman: "We're At The Fiscal Endgame"
OMB's Stockman: "We're At The Fiscal Endgame" | ZeroHedge
His warning is that unlike in past periods, today "we are completely paralyzed, there is an ideological divide on taxes and entitlement like we've never had before" and while he realizes that "the debt problem doesn't become a debt problem until the market suddenly have a wake up call and realize that if the Fed doesn't keep printing, it's game over."
His warning is that unlike in past periods, today "we are completely paralyzed, there is an ideological divide on taxes and entitlement like we've never had before" and while he realizes that "the debt problem doesn't become a debt problem until the market suddenly have a wake up call and realize that if the Fed doesn't keep printing, it's game over."
Monday, July 16, 2012
Muskegon area radio stations partnering up with Local Sports Journal to bolster coverage of area sports
Muskegon area radio stations partnering up with Local Sports Journal to bolster coverage of area sports | Local Sports Journal
Radio stations WLCS- FM 98.3 and WVIB-FM 100.1 along with Local Sports Journal have announced a partnership that will benefit Muskegon area sports fans starting with the fast-approaching high school football season.
Jon Russell, operations manager and high school play-by-play at WLCS-FM along with Jason Goorman and Ron Rop, co-publishers of Local Sports Journal, announced the partnership today.
Radio stations WLCS- FM 98.3 and WVIB-FM 100.1 along with Local Sports Journal have announced a partnership that will benefit Muskegon area sports fans starting with the fast-approaching high school football season.
Jon Russell, operations manager and high school play-by-play at WLCS-FM along with Jason Goorman and Ron Rop, co-publishers of Local Sports Journal, announced the partnership today.
The Vélodrome d’hiver Round-up: July 16 and 17, 1942
The Vélodrome d’hiver Round-up: July 16 and 17, 1942 - Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
The real history for the book "Sarah's Key".
The real history for the book "Sarah's Key".
Conquest’s Laws
Conquest’s Laws
By John Derbyshire
Several readers have asked me for Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of politics.
As best I can remember, they are:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will
sooner or later become left-wing.
3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by
assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty
International as examples.
Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucarcy
sometimes actually IS controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies–e.g.
the postwar British secret service.
By John Derbyshire
Several readers have asked me for Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of politics.
As best I can remember, they are:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will
sooner or later become left-wing.
3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by
assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty
International as examples.
Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucarcy
sometimes actually IS controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies–e.g.
the postwar British secret service.
TODAY’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Choices Matter In Avoiding Poverty.
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TODAY’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Choices Matter In Avoiding Poverty.
UPDATE: Reader Bill Reece writes:
I had a law professor who taught the traditional business related law classes at my law school who followed the Chicago School’s “Law and Economics” Theory of Law.
I will never forget my first week of Contracts Law in my first year in law school.
I came to this class as a poor kid whose family had basically lost its dreams of a working-middle class lifestyle when my Dad’s job at US Steel disappeared along with thousands of others in 1981, six years earlier.
I came from a pretty liberal background, and knew next to nothing about economics and business.
I had managed to get to law school by earning a scholarship based on my undergraduate work while facing these tough economic times.
This professor said something that was shocking to me, and at first upsetting.
He actually would go on to use the expression often in the classes I took from him (4 over three years of school).
“There is a cost to being poor.”
At first it seemed glib and uncaring, but as I sat through his classes and as I talked to him outside of the classroom, I realized it was said more with pity and regret than anything else.
And from my family’s experience, I recognized pretty quickly and far better than any child of the upper or upper-middle class, that he was all too correct.
The consequences of bad life decisions, made many times over, cost people heavily.
Dependence, like addiction, begins with choice.
We don’t want to admit this uncomfortable fact, but in the beginning there are conscious choices that leave people in the thralls of dependence, poverty, addiction, depression, and many other dead-ends in life.
And the lesson this professor offered to me was that we make these outcomes more likely by excusing the choices that lead to them rather than confronting them.
I can also pinpoint that week as the moment that I began to stop being a liberal and eventually became a libertarian
TODAY’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Choices Matter In Avoiding Poverty.
UPDATE: Reader Bill Reece writes:
I had a law professor who taught the traditional business related law classes at my law school who followed the Chicago School’s “Law and Economics” Theory of Law.
I will never forget my first week of Contracts Law in my first year in law school.
I came to this class as a poor kid whose family had basically lost its dreams of a working-middle class lifestyle when my Dad’s job at US Steel disappeared along with thousands of others in 1981, six years earlier.
I came from a pretty liberal background, and knew next to nothing about economics and business.
I had managed to get to law school by earning a scholarship based on my undergraduate work while facing these tough economic times.
This professor said something that was shocking to me, and at first upsetting.
He actually would go on to use the expression often in the classes I took from him (4 over three years of school).
“There is a cost to being poor.”
At first it seemed glib and uncaring, but as I sat through his classes and as I talked to him outside of the classroom, I realized it was said more with pity and regret than anything else.
And from my family’s experience, I recognized pretty quickly and far better than any child of the upper or upper-middle class, that he was all too correct.
The consequences of bad life decisions, made many times over, cost people heavily.
Dependence, like addiction, begins with choice.
We don’t want to admit this uncomfortable fact, but in the beginning there are conscious choices that leave people in the thralls of dependence, poverty, addiction, depression, and many other dead-ends in life.
And the lesson this professor offered to me was that we make these outcomes more likely by excusing the choices that lead to them rather than confronting them.
I can also pinpoint that week as the moment that I began to stop being a liberal and eventually became a libertarian
Sunday, July 15, 2012
From Seat to Shining Seat
From Seat to Shining Seat - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online
By Mark Steyn
"I hope you’re sitting down for this one…
Navy’s New Gender-Neutral Carriers Won’t Have Urinals"
By Mark Steyn
"I hope you’re sitting down for this one…
Navy’s New Gender-Neutral Carriers Won’t Have Urinals"
Penn State: Here are 10 steps to recovery
Penn State: Here are 10 steps to recovery
As shocking as Louis Freeh’s report is — and it is about as horrific an indictment of institutional corruption as college football has ever seen — there is an opportunity for the good people at Penn State (of which there are plenty) to recover.
As shocking as Louis Freeh’s report is — and it is about as horrific an indictment of institutional corruption as college football has ever seen — there is an opportunity for the good people at Penn State (of which there are plenty) to recover.
Football and Hockey - By Mark Steyn
Football and Hockey - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online
In the wake of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s complicity in serial rape, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley’s other scandal:
I’m referring to another cover up and whitewash that occurred there two years ago, before we learned how rotten and corrupt the culture at the university was. But now that we know how bad it was, perhaps it’s time that we revisit the Michael Mann affair, particularly given how much we’ve also learned about his and others’ hockey-stick deceptions since. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.
Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point.
Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change “hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus.
And, when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to “investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann. And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.
If an institution is prepared to cover up systemic statutory rape of minors, what won’t it cover up? Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”, he remains the Michael Mann of climate change, in part because his “investigation” by a deeply corrupt administration was a joke.
In the wake of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s complicity in serial rape, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley’s other scandal:
I’m referring to another cover up and whitewash that occurred there two years ago, before we learned how rotten and corrupt the culture at the university was. But now that we know how bad it was, perhaps it’s time that we revisit the Michael Mann affair, particularly given how much we’ve also learned about his and others’ hockey-stick deceptions since. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.
Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point.
Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change “hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus.
And, when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to “investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann. And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.
If an institution is prepared to cover up systemic statutory rape of minors, what won’t it cover up? Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”, he remains the Michael Mann of climate change, in part because his “investigation” by a deeply corrupt administration was a joke.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Micro-apartments next for S.F.?
Micro-apartments next for S.F.? - SFGate
The new minimum would be 150 square feet plus kitchen, bathroom and closet - 220 square feet in total, about the size of a one-car garage.
The current minimum with all rooms included is 290 square feet.
The new minimum would be 150 square feet plus kitchen, bathroom and closet - 220 square feet in total, about the size of a one-car garage.
The current minimum with all rooms included is 290 square feet.
Quotas Limiting Male Science Enrollment: The New Liberal War on Science
Quotas Limiting Male Science Enrollment: The New Liberal War on Science
Quotas limiting the number of male students in science may be imposed by the Education Department in 2013.
The White House has promised that “new guidelines will also be issued to grant-receiving universities and colleges” spelling out “Title IX rules in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.”
These guidelines will likely echo existing Title IX guidelines that restrict men’s percentage of intercollegiate athletes to their percentage in overall student bodies, thus reducing the overall number of intercollegiate athletes.
(Under the three-part Title IX test created by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, colleges are allowed to temporarily comply by increasing the number of female athletes rather than cutting the number of male athletes, but the only viable permanent way to comply with its rule is to restrict men’s participation relative to women’s participation, reducing overall participation.)
Thus, as Charlotte Allen notes, the Obama administration’s guidelines are likely to lead to “science quotas” based on gender.
Quotas limiting the number of male students in science may be imposed by the Education Department in 2013.
The White House has promised that “new guidelines will also be issued to grant-receiving universities and colleges” spelling out “Title IX rules in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.”
These guidelines will likely echo existing Title IX guidelines that restrict men’s percentage of intercollegiate athletes to their percentage in overall student bodies, thus reducing the overall number of intercollegiate athletes.
(Under the three-part Title IX test created by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, colleges are allowed to temporarily comply by increasing the number of female athletes rather than cutting the number of male athletes, but the only viable permanent way to comply with its rule is to restrict men’s participation relative to women’s participation, reducing overall participation.)
Thus, as Charlotte Allen notes, the Obama administration’s guidelines are likely to lead to “science quotas” based on gender.
Transparency and Open Government | The White House
Transparency and Open Government | The White House: Government should be participatory. Public engagement enhances the Government's effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions. Knowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge. Executive departments and agencies should offer Americans increased opportunities to participate in policymaking and to provide their Government with the benefits of their collective expertise and information. Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public input on how we can increase and improve opportunities for public participation in Government.
Ballot Proposal to Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients
Ballot Proposal to Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
With boxes of signatures submitted to the Secretary of State over the last few days, it appears there could be as many as seven different proposals on the ballot this fall.
Many of them would benefit narrow constituencies at the expense of taxpayers; perhaps the most egregious is a self-serving measure that would embed a one-sided government union scheme into the state constitution.
The arrangement came about when the Service Employees International Union and the Granholm administration created a shell "employer" for tens of thousands of home-based caregivers.
Most are family members caring for developmentally disabled loved ones who receive a Medicaid stipend.
By labeling caregivers as "government employees" and skimming off a portion of these payments as "dues," the SEIU has quietly taken more than $30 million from Michigan’s most vulnerable residents.
With boxes of signatures submitted to the Secretary of State over the last few days, it appears there could be as many as seven different proposals on the ballot this fall.
Many of them would benefit narrow constituencies at the expense of taxpayers; perhaps the most egregious is a self-serving measure that would embed a one-sided government union scheme into the state constitution.
The arrangement came about when the Service Employees International Union and the Granholm administration created a shell "employer" for tens of thousands of home-based caregivers.
Most are family members caring for developmentally disabled loved ones who receive a Medicaid stipend.
By labeling caregivers as "government employees" and skimming off a portion of these payments as "dues," the SEIU has quietly taken more than $30 million from Michigan’s most vulnerable residents.
7 ballot issues would be most in 30 years - but not a record
7 ballot issues would be most in 30 years - but not a record | MLive.com
Michigan voters could decide as many as seven initiatives on the November statewide ballot.
That is a lot - but nowhere close to the record.
Michigan voters could decide as many as seven initiatives on the November statewide ballot.
That is a lot - but nowhere close to the record.
Bomb threat shuts major U.S.-Canada tunnel
Bomb threat shuts major U.S.-Canada tunnel - CNN.com
A bomb threat shut a major tunnel between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit on Thursday, triggering traffic backups as drivers on both sides of the border were rerouted.
Employees at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel received an anonymous phone call around 12:30 p.m. from someone saying there was a bomb in the tunnel
A bomb threat shut a major tunnel between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit on Thursday, triggering traffic backups as drivers on both sides of the border were rerouted.
Employees at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel received an anonymous phone call around 12:30 p.m. from someone saying there was a bomb in the tunnel
City of Syracuse keeping a close eye on Scranton's budget problems ral.com
City of Syracuse keeping a close eye on Scranton's budget problems : News : CNYcentral.com
SYRACUSE -- Many cities have been able to kick the budget deficit can down the road - but they are quickly running out of road. Y
ears of budget problems are catching up with cities, counties and states around the country.
Stockton, California declared bankruptcy two weeks ago and now the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania has defied a court order by cutting every employee’s pay to minimum wage.
In Syracuse today, people were shocked by the drastic move
SYRACUSE -- Many cities have been able to kick the budget deficit can down the road - but they are quickly running out of road. Y
ears of budget problems are catching up with cities, counties and states around the country.
Stockton, California declared bankruptcy two weeks ago and now the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania has defied a court order by cutting every employee’s pay to minimum wage.
In Syracuse today, people were shocked by the drastic move
Rick Reilly: Joe Paterno's True Legacy - ESPN
Rick Reilly: Joe Paterno's True Legacy - ESPN
I hope Penn State loses civil suits until the walls of the accounting office cave in.
I hope that Spanier, Schultz and Curley go to prison for perjury.
I hope the NCAA gives Penn State the death penalty it most richly deserves.
The worst scandal in college football history deserves the worst penalty the NCAA can give.
They gave it to SMU for winning without regard for morals.
They should give it to Penn State for the same thing.
The only difference is, at Penn State they didn't pay for it with Corvettes.
They paid for it with lives.
I hope Penn State loses civil suits until the walls of the accounting office cave in.
I hope that Spanier, Schultz and Curley go to prison for perjury.
I hope the NCAA gives Penn State the death penalty it most richly deserves.
The worst scandal in college football history deserves the worst penalty the NCAA can give.
They gave it to SMU for winning without regard for morals.
They should give it to Penn State for the same thing.
The only difference is, at Penn State they didn't pay for it with Corvettes.
They paid for it with lives.
Muskegon County Board of Commissioners
Muskegon County Board of Commissioners
The Muskegon County Board of Public Works special meeting scheduled for July 17, 2012, has been cancelled.
Marvin Engle, Chairman
Board of Public Works
Posted: 7-13-12, 11:00 A.M.
The Muskegon County Board of Public Works special meeting scheduled for July 17, 2012, has been cancelled.
Marvin Engle, Chairman
Board of Public Works
Posted: 7-13-12, 11:00 A.M.
Mackinac Center: Emergency managers lesser evil than municipal bankruptcy
Mackinac Center: Emergency managers lesser evil than municipal bankruptcy | MLive.com
The conservative, Midland-based think tank recently recently posted a blog entry saying that while emergency managers are bad, bankruptcy is "far worse."
Writer Jarrett Skorup notes that bankruptcy judges have more power to cut local expenses to pay off creditors than an emergency manager.
The conservative, Midland-based think tank recently recently posted a blog entry saying that while emergency managers are bad, bankruptcy is "far worse."
Writer Jarrett Skorup notes that bankruptcy judges have more power to cut local expenses to pay off creditors than an emergency manager.
ACLU sues Michigan for depriving Highland Park students of their 'right to read'
ACLU sues Michigan for depriving Highland Park students of their 'right to read' | MLive.com
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the state's obligation to students.
The organization in a "first-of-its-kind lawsuit" is suing the state of Michigan on behalf of Highland Park School District students and their “right to read.”
“I go to Barber foucs school,” a writing sample from a seventh-grade Highland Park student with a third-grade reading level obtained by the ACLU says.
“I wish it was batter in the clean bathroom. Batter teachers and batter lunch.”
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging the state's obligation to students.
The organization in a "first-of-its-kind lawsuit" is suing the state of Michigan on behalf of Highland Park School District students and their “right to read.”
“I go to Barber foucs school,” a writing sample from a seventh-grade Highland Park student with a third-grade reading level obtained by the ACLU says.
“I wish it was batter in the clean bathroom. Batter teachers and batter lunch.”
Michigan Department of Human Services doesn't live up to Gov. Snyder's transparency pledge
Michigan Department of Human Services doesn't live up to Gov. Snyder's transparency pledge | MLive.com
“As Governor, I will ensure that government is open, fair, and accountable to the citizens by making Michigan a national leader in transparency and ethics.”
That's what Rick Snyder pledged on the campaign trail two years ago.
Yet last month, the Michigan Department of Human Services gave two completely contradictory answers to a fairly straightforward policy question:
How many former welfare recipients reapplied for cash assistance after being removed by Michigan's new welfare reforms?
When Bridge Magazine asked that question, DHS required a formal, written Freedom of Information Request.
Then DHS extended its response deadline by two weeks.
Then DHS completely denied Bridge Magazine's request, claiming it "does not possess records falling within the scope of the description provided in your request, or by another name."
In other words, DHS implied that the records Bridge wanted didn't exist.
Yet, while the DHS pleaded ignorance to us, a DHS attorney unintentionally provided all kinds of detailed answers to our questions in a legal proceeding.
DHS formally denied our information request on June 21.
“As Governor, I will ensure that government is open, fair, and accountable to the citizens by making Michigan a national leader in transparency and ethics.”
That's what Rick Snyder pledged on the campaign trail two years ago.
Yet last month, the Michigan Department of Human Services gave two completely contradictory answers to a fairly straightforward policy question:
How many former welfare recipients reapplied for cash assistance after being removed by Michigan's new welfare reforms?
When Bridge Magazine asked that question, DHS required a formal, written Freedom of Information Request.
Then DHS extended its response deadline by two weeks.
Then DHS completely denied Bridge Magazine's request, claiming it "does not possess records falling within the scope of the description provided in your request, or by another name."
In other words, DHS implied that the records Bridge wanted didn't exist.
Yet, while the DHS pleaded ignorance to us, a DHS attorney unintentionally provided all kinds of detailed answers to our questions in a legal proceeding.
DHS formally denied our information request on June 21.
Flint officials warn against scam that Obama will pay utility bills
Flint officials warn against scam that Obama will pay utility bills | MLive.com
The city of Flint issued a warning to residents today about a new scam that claims the Obama administration will pay utility bills as part of a federal government relief plan.
The scam's perpetrators call, text or email potential victims, telling them they will be given a special account number to use to pay their utility bills after an "application process" that includes divulging personal information, such as their social security number.
The city of Flint issued a warning to residents today about a new scam that claims the Obama administration will pay utility bills as part of a federal government relief plan.
The scam's perpetrators call, text or email potential victims, telling them they will be given a special account number to use to pay their utility bills after an "application process" that includes divulging personal information, such as their social security number.
GVSU leaders explain why they decided to increase average tuition bill $362 next school year
GVSU leaders explain why they decided to increase average tuition bill $362 next school year | MLive.com
Hiking the amount students pay in tuition by $362 a year – or 3.7 percent – is necessary because the university is contending with expenses related to inflation, new academic programs and increased student enrollment, said Matt McLogan, GVSU’s vice president for university relations.
Hiking the amount students pay in tuition by $362 a year – or 3.7 percent – is necessary because the university is contending with expenses related to inflation, new academic programs and increased student enrollment, said Matt McLogan, GVSU’s vice president for university relations.
Klohs: Muskegon's deep-water port critical to future ecomomic growth in West Michigan
Klohs: Muskegon's deep-water port critical to future ecomomic growth in West Michigan | MLive.com
Special state economic development incentives for specific industrial developments will be made available for five regional collaboratives around the state, Klohs said. Gov. Rick Snyder has given his support to the West Michigan partnership, she said.
The Muskegon City Commission and Muskegon County Board of Commissioners have approved the regional partnership through the NextMichigan program with special attention given to waterfront properties along the Muskegon Lake shoreline.
The Muskegon harbor capabilities play to the regional effort to promote the alternative energy sector as a potential area of economic growth for the future, Klohs said.
“The Great Lakes offer a very large potential for alternative energy particularly on wind and bio fuels and to a lesser degree solar,” Klohs said.
Special state economic development incentives for specific industrial developments will be made available for five regional collaboratives around the state, Klohs said. Gov. Rick Snyder has given his support to the West Michigan partnership, she said.
The Muskegon City Commission and Muskegon County Board of Commissioners have approved the regional partnership through the NextMichigan program with special attention given to waterfront properties along the Muskegon Lake shoreline.
The Muskegon harbor capabilities play to the regional effort to promote the alternative energy sector as a potential area of economic growth for the future, Klohs said.
“The Great Lakes offer a very large potential for alternative energy particularly on wind and bio fuels and to a lesser degree solar,” Klohs said.
Candidate debates for Muskegon County prosecutor, sheriff set July 17-18
Candidate debates for Muskegon County prosecutor, sheriff set July 17-18 | MLive.com
The Muskegon Chronicle and MLive are partnering with Muskegon Community College to present candidate debates at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at the college.
The debates also will be broadcast several times on MCC TV later in the week.
The Muskegon Chronicle and MLive are partnering with Muskegon Community College to present candidate debates at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 17, and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, at the college.
The debates also will be broadcast several times on MCC TV later in the week.
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