Wayne State says potential state aid cuts could force tuition increases

Wayne State says potential state aid cuts could force tuition increases | Crain's Detroit Business

Wayne State University would be punished with a loss of $27.5 million in state aid and the University of Michigan with a cut of $41 million because of proposed long-term contracts they may sign with their unions, under a bill reported Tuesday by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education.

The bill was reported along party lines.

Patrick Lindsey, vice president of government and community affairs for Wayne State, said the university could not handle a cut of that size and might be forced to increase tuition.

The bill states that any university would lose 15 percent of its funding if it extends, renews or enters into a contract after Dec. 10, 2012, and before March 28 if that contract does not achieve savings of 10 percent or greater. The dates relate to the time between when Gov. Rick Snyder signed right-to-work legislation into law and when the law takes effect.

"This has to do with circumventing state law," said the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Al Pscholka, R-Stevensville, who then acknowledged that right-to-work is not state law until next week.

"We're trying to stand up for taxpayers," Pscholka said. "An eight-year contract does not stand up for taxpayers, and I think it's pretty apparent and pretty blatant what's going on here."

Several attempts by Democrats to remove the provision from the bill failed along party lines.

Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can"

Nigel Farage Message To Europeans: "Get Your Money Out While You Can" | Zero Hedge:

 In all his years and all his experience of the desperation of the European Union's leadership "never did [he] think they would resort to stealing money from people's savings accounts." 

The simple fact is that they know they cannot let any country leave, no matter how small, for "once one country goes, the whole deck of cards will come tumbling down." 

There is now "clear irreconcilable differences" between the North and the South of Europeand now that they have done this in one country, "they are quite capable of doing it in Italy, Spain and anywhere." 

The message that sends to people is "get your money out while you can."

As far as his British constituents, he strongly recommends George Osborne (UK Chancellor) urge ex-pats to remove all their money and do monthly transfers from home. 

"Do Not Invest In The Euro-Zone," he concludes, "you have to be mad to do so - as it is now run by people who do not respect democracy, the rule of law, or the basic principles upon which Western civilization is based."

"They are propping up a Eurozone that, in the end, will collapse in disastrous failure and they are prepared to do anything to do so."

Lack of job seekers -- not jobs -- haunts this year's Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo

Lack of job seekers -- not jobs -- haunts this year's Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo | MLive.com:
"An underwhelming turnout of applicants – not a lack of companies with open positions – was the bane of this year's Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo.
As the event began to wind down Tuesday, March 19, only about 100 applicants had walked through the doors of the at the Bishop Williams L. Burrell Multi-Plex Center in Muskegon Heights, said event organizer Paul Billings.
He had earlier predicted more than 700 people would come, based on the turnout for last year's event."

2013-3-19 Talkin' Muskegon Mike Hewitt, Oscar and me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAo8aTcc6DY

$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'?

$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'? | CNS News:
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous drinking.”
The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, "Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians," which aims to develop “culturally sensitive” strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks."

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand | Scoop News:
"The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts, the Green Party said today.
Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English’s favoured option dealing with a major bank failure. 
If a bank fails under OBR, all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the bank’s bail out.

Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs from foreign airports... where their English leaves a little to be desired

Lost in translation: Hilarious advice signs from foreign airports... where their English leaves a little to be desired | Mail Online

Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU

Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU – Telegraph Blogs:
"One's first reflex is to gasp at the stupidity of the EU policy elites, but truth is that most EU officials handling the Cyprus crisis know perfectly well that their masters have just set the slow fuse on a powder keg – and they can only pray that it is slow."

Michigan Airport Home to No Planes Or Hangars Receives Over $150K A Year In Tax Dollars

Michigan Airport Home to No Planes Or Hangars Receives Over $150K A Year In Tax Dollars [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Evart Municipal Airport has two flights per day, one runway, zero employees and five "likes" on its Facebook page.
Yet, the federal government spent $150,000 on the airport in 2012 while state and local taxpayers spent thousands more."

The Disappearing Volume of the Stock Market

Captain Capitalism: The Disappearing Volume of the Stock Market:
But ask yourself a question.
"How great of a reason is THE LACK OF VOLATILITY for a stock market rally?"
It once again is another desperate excuse, a desperate reason for stock markets to rally that once again ignores the only two things that should drive a true stock market rally -
1.  Increased profits
2.  Increased dividends
The fact volume is tanking, leaving a higher percentage of trading in essentially connected firms' hands, AND there has not been the increase in profits to bring the P/E of investments down to a sane level, means this is a rally only for the connected.
You might as well be a man trying to rationalize driving a VW Cabriolet by citing its fuel efficiency."

Climate Change = Armageddon?

Climate Change = Armageddon? | Ottawa County Patriots:

Chart of the day: As a share of household spending, the US has the most affordable food in world

Chart of the day: As a share of household spending, the US has the most affordable food in world | AEIdeas

Europe’s Cyprus blunder

Europe’s Cyprus blunder | AEIdeas:
"European policymakers work in strange and mysterious ways. 
Over the past year, they bent many rules and threw literally hundreds of billions of Euros at Greece to prevent that country from exiting the Euro. 
They did so for fear that a Greek exit might cause contagion to other countries in the European periphery. And then over this last weekend, they chose to spook financial markets and risk the very contagion that they sought to avoid in the Greek case, by demanding that as part of its bailout package Cyprus imposes a tax on bank deposits."

Victory! Marketplace Morning Report learns to fold a fitted sheet

Victory! Marketplace Morning Report learns to fold a fitted sheet | Marketplace.org:

Ken Braun: A gun control proposal that everyone should support

Ken Braun: A gun control proposal that everyone should support | MLive.com:
"required a twice-yearly report from every SWAT team in Michigan. 
They would need to list the location of each raid, the legal reason for it, the details of what happened, whether shots were fired, what was seized and who was arrested. A similar law in Maryland revealed that 4.5 homes per day were being raided.
McMillin introduced the bill following the death of a 7-year old Detroit girl who was killed during a Detroit police SWAT raid on her home.
The only weapon fired was from the gun of one of the officers, who claimed (falsely) that the girl’s aunt reached for his weapon.
Yet his only shot struck the little girl in the neck.
The bill received only two co-sponsors, both Detroit Democrats.
It never got out of committee, allegedly due to strong resistance from law enforcement."

House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama

News from The Associated Press
 "House Speaker John Boehner says he "absolutely" trusts President Barack Obama - not that they don't have their differences.
Boehner tells ABC's "This Week" that the two have a good relationship and that they're "open with each other ... honest with each other." But the Ohio lawmaker says they're trying to bridge some big differences.
One issue they agree on: The U.S. doesn't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt."

Controversial Article Published In Local Magazine Has Mayor Nutter Asking For Investigation

Controversial Article Published In Local Magazine Has Mayor Nutter Asking For Investigation « CBS Philly:
"Mayor Nutter calls the article’s tone “disgusting,” and he’s asked the Human Relations Commission to investigate some of the sensitive racial issues explored in the piece.
Nutter spokesman Mark McDonald says this is all about fact finding"

Hillary Clinton Endorses Same-Sex Marriage

Hillary Clinton Endorses Same-Sex Marriage - NYTimes.com:
"Mrs. Clinton’s announcement represents a switch in position; as a presidential candidate in 2008, she explicitly opposed same-sex marriage, saying that she favored civil unions but that decisions about the legality of marriage should be left to the states.
(Until last year, President Obama took that position as well; the president now favors a right to marriage for gay couples.)"

Ferry service fights that sinking feeling

Ferry service fights that sinking feeling | Matier And Ross | an SFGate.com blog:
"The much-heralded ferry service between Oakland and South San Francisco — launched just nine months ago at a cost to taxpayers of more than $42 million — is taking on water fast.
The service, which operates seven trips each weekday, carried an average of just 131 total riders a day in the last week of February.
That’s less than a third of the ridership that officials were counting on during the ferries’ first year on the bay.
And yet, rather than retrenching, the ferry operators have big plans for expansion.
You can find out about those here."

Foreign language requirements for Michigan high schools could be dropped

Foreign language requirements for Michigan high schools could be dropped | MLive.com:
"The bill sponsored by Republican state Rep. Phil Potvin of Cadillac would allow students to meet Algebra 2 and foreign language requirements by including computer science instead.
The bill is expected to be taken up this year by the House Education Committee."

Michigan road funding: See how much various proposals would cost taxpayers, generate for state

Michigan road funding: See how much various proposals would cost taxpayers, generate for state | MLive.com
"Below, you'll find an overview of the publicly-discussed proposals along with some basic math and bottom-line figures provided by SFA.
While these proposals seek to raise revenue through combinations of taxes and fees, Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville said he also has asked SFA to look at several "outside the box" ideas that could generate revenue without necessarily increasing taxes."

White House Announces Easter Egg Roll May Be Cancelled, After Labeling Concerns Ridiculous Last Week

White House Announces Easter Egg Roll May Be Cancelled, After Labeling Concerns Ridiculous Last Week - By Andrew Johnson - The Corner - National Review Online: "
Last Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney lashed out at a Fox News anchor for asking whether the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll might go the way of its cancelled tours.
Carney told Jenna Lee that the event wasn’t at risk:
“Well actually, Jenna, again, if you did a little reporting . . . it’s paid for by the sale of those eggs that come out, as well as from donations on the outside, so it’s a totally different budget. 
These are apples and oranges.”
But now the White House is warning that this year’s egg roll may be nixed by the sequester as well.
According to Politico, Capitol Hill offices received an e-mail today with tickets to the event that mentioned it could be cancelled “due to funding uncertainty surrounding the Executive Office of the President and other federal agencies.”

SB 124 Would Make it a Class E Felony to Take Biden's Advice

SB 124 Would Make it a Class E Felony to Take Biden's Advice
"In North Carolina, taking the Vice President’s advice could soon become a Class E Felony. North Carolina Senate Bill 124, introduced by Republican Senators Peter S. Brunstetter and Norman W. Sanderson would specifically outlaw the discharge of “a firearm within any building, structure, motor vehicle, or other conveyance, erection, or enclosure with the intent to do harm or incite fear.”
North Carolina’s sentencing guidelines specify a minimum 15 month “intermediate punishment” for Class E felonies and a maximum of up to 63 months in prison."

Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU

Daylight robbery in Cyprus will come to haunt EMU – Telegraph Blogs

EyeOnMuskegon: 2013-3-18 New Farmer's Market Forum-Beardsley Theater-VIDEO

EyeOnMuskegon: 2013-3-18 New Farmer's Market Forum-Beardsley Theater:
These are the videos of the 1st Forum held at the Beardsley Theater.
Forum #2 is tonight, 3-19-2013.

 "Tuesday's (TONIGHT"S) meeting with the Nelson, Jackson Hill and McLaughlin neighborhood is 6:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church at Third and Jefferson."

Muskegon area Medicare recipients targeted in ongoing scams

Muskegon area Medicare recipients targeted in ongoing scams | MLive.com
“They are saying they are from Medicare and need people’s Medicare numbers to send a new card,” Curtis said.
“All of this is a scam.”

A Swelling Education Bureaucracy Declares War On Children

A Swelling Education Bureaucracy Declares War On Children - Investors.com:
"Zero Intelligence:
What is happening these days in education?
Children are being demonized and expelled from public schools for "crimes" associated with plastic army men or gun-shaped cookies.
A monster is growing.
Ever since the Department of Education took in more than $100 billion in 2009 stimulus cash to "improve education" the incidents of petty tyranny traumatizing children from its bureaucrats and teachers unions has grown exponentially in schools."

Hundreds expected to attend Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo on Tuesday, March 19

Hundreds expected to attend Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo on Tuesday, March 19 | MLive.com: "The Thurgood Marshall Job & Career Fair Expo will be held 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Bishop Williams L. Burrell Multi-Plex Center, 412 E. Sherman Blvd. in Muskegon Heights.
The event is being sponsored by the West Michigan Community Help Network,"
...Eleven employers will be shaking hands, interviewing candidates and taking applications. Billings estimates they will be hiring for 100 to 200 job openings.

Talkin' Muskegon 3-18-2013w/ Jim Riley,Lee Cogin & Oscar Osbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky17L7w4osQ

New Muskegon Farmer's Market not a racist issue, vice mayor says prior to Monday public forum

New Muskegon Farmer's Market not a racist issue, vice mayor says prior to Monday public forum | MLive.com:
“This has gone in a dangerous direction,” Spataro said, adding that he will keep “an open mind” as the three meetings on the Muskegon Farmer’s Market relocation plan are conducted this week."