Michigan Politics

The Courage of Detroit

Seeded on Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:52 PM EST (CNN)

And yet Detroit was once a vibrant place, the fourth-largest city in the country, and it lives in the hope that those days, against all logic, will somehow return. We are downtrodden, perhaps, but the most downtrodden optimists you will ever meet.

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Michigan Democrats' strategy to gain control of state uncovered

Seeded on Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:11 PM EDT (The Detroit Free Press)

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The documents contained in a PowerPoint document outline the difficulties state Democrats have experienced for decades in gaining control of the legislative, judicial and executive branches simultaneously and promotes a "government reform" ballot proposal as the best means to …

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2008 Equal Parenting Bike Trek departs Aug. 7 from the Capitol in Lansing

Seeded on Fri Apr 4, 2008 4:37 PM EDT (Indictment: Lansing store owners traded food stamps for cash, guns, drugs | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com)

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Parents riding bikes to Washington DC to shine light on the need for legal reforms so that children are never denied a relationship with their parents.

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Detroit's Tragic Love Affair with Liberalism

Seeded on Thu Apr 3, 2008 7:58 AM EDT (WorldNetDaily News )

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Since the early 1930s and FDR, Detroit has had a tragic love affair with liberalism, the consequences of which have to a degree been comparable to the sieges by the cruel superpowers of antiquity – Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Huns, the Mongols.

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Fighting Recession With Panic, Why the Federal Reserve's aggressive monetary easing is the wrong solution to America's economic woes.

Seeded on Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:27 AM EDT (American.com)

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After a weekend in which the collapse of Bear, Stearns & Co., the fifth largest investment bank in the United States, prompted the Federal Reserve to make an unprecedented loan to JPMorgan Chase, the Fed's Open Market Committee holds its regular six-week review meeting today.

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Probe Launched Over Detroit Mayor Texts

Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:08 AM EST

By Corey Williams, Associated Press (Clipped by Sir. Thinkswaytoomuch)

A prosecutor launched an investigation Friday into allegations that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with his top aide. Some political observers are questioning whether the popular yet polarizing figure should stay on the job.

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Granholm Gets Her Wish: $1.35 BILLION Democrat Tax Hike Ends Government Shutdown

Seeded on Mon Oct 1, 2007 7:33 AM EDT (rightmichigan.com)

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his massive Democrat tax hike does indeed define Michigan's future and it ain't pretty. Not only does it steal $1,350,000,000.00 from the pockets of working moms and dads across the state but it takes $1,350,000,000.00 out of the private sector... out of the economy.

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