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- Hillsdale offers severance
Summary: "Hillsdale Community Schools is offering severance packages to teachers and support personnel who retire now as a way to save money in the long run."
Details: Posted: Nov. 21, 2009. Match Rating: 50. Type: Michigan Education Digest Daily.
- "Light Pollution" = Law Pollution
"Dark Skies" movement shines moonbeams in Michigan
Summary: Friday's Wall Street Journal has a piece by Eric Felten on a "dark skies" movement seeking to define outdoor lighting as a form of "pollution," and pass laws to boss people around regarding their choice about how to light up their own property. Fortunately, Michigan's political class is immune to such misguided notions.
Oh, wait a minute. ...
2004 Senate Bill 1250 (Create light pollution study board)
Details: Posted: Nov. 21, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: General Article.
- Glenn Beck Highlights Mackinac Center’s “Overton Window”
Summary: Yesterday on his Fox television show, Glenn Beck described public policy changes along a spectrum from right to left, dubbing the range of current policies “the Overton Window.” He borrowed the term my colleagues and I gave to a theory of change developed by the Mackinac Center’s late vice president, Joseph Overton.
Details: Posted: Nov. 21, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: General Article.
- MEGA Madness and Big Labor Contradictions
Dubious Michigan Tax Break to Union Raises Eyebrows
Summary: Ironically, a special tax break offered by the state of Michigan to a for-profit arm of the Service Employees International Union was arranged in part to address the union's complaint that it is at a disadvantage due to Michigan's "high labor costs" compared to two other states the SEIU was supposedly considering (one of them with a right-to-work law reviled by the union). This according to a document obtained by Detroit News business writer Daniel Howes ("State tax credit to labor union is baffling," Nov. 20).
Details: Posted: Nov. 20, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: General Article.
- Division apparent on health care pool
Summary: "The University of Michigan believes that a
plan to create a single health insurance pool for all public employees is
unconstitutional, firefighters believe it's unwise, but the president of
Lansing Community College sees it as the right moral choice."
Details: Posted: Nov. 20, 2009. Match Rating: 50. Type: Michigan Education Digest Daily.
- The Top Ten Things People
Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn’t
Details: Posted: Nov. 20, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: General Article.
- MEDC-SEIU Arrangement Still Raising Questions
Summary: Paul Kersey discusses MEDC-SEIU deal on Frank Beckmann's show.
Details: Posted: Nov. 19, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: General Article.
- Jackson eyes insurance changes
Summary: "Jackson Public Schools is investigating
switching insurance carriers, self-funding or asking all employee groups to
agree to higher deductibles and co-pays as ways to spend less on health
insurance."
Details: Posted: Nov. 19, 2009. Match Rating: 50. Type: Michigan Education Digest Daily.
- A MEGA Delusion
Summary: At a press conference Tuesday announcing several new recipients of discriminatory state tax breaks, Gov. Jennifer Granholm repeated a number of false or misleading statements about this state government's policy of picking winners and losers, and its effects as a substitute for genuine labor, regulatory and tax law reforms.
Details: Posted: Nov. 19, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: General Article.
- Vice President for Advancement
Details: Posted: Nov. 19, 2009. Match Rating: 10. Type: Employment. Part of a larger publication.
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