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Commentary: Shifting School Employees to a 401(k) Is the Most Important Thing

… hikes coming down the pike. Actually, they’re already here: Last year, the Land of Lincoln passed a 67-percent income tax increase and a massive business … others agree. (Littmann is the former senior vice president for Comerica Bank and one of the most respected economists in the state; he is also senior …

Freedom Fighters

The Center Welcomes New Comrades-in-Arms

… Spalding of the importance of economic freedom. While at the Center, Spalding hopes to expand educational choice, stanch the spread of government land banks and explore Michigan’s many bike trails.

May 24, 2013, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Vote Report

Bills on wetland use, forest property tax breaks

… authority, authorize grants to local governments to create “wetland mitigation banks,” slightly reduce wetland regulatory burdens imposed on county drain commission … the scope those required by federal law, and make other changes to these land use restrictions. Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No" House Bill 4042, …

Bill Grants Big Businesses Power to Raise Taxes in 'Business Improvement Zones'

State Rep: 'Corporate welfare is a bipartisan issue'

… Licensing Mandate On Dieticians, Nutritionists Bill Would Lessen Mandates On Landscape Architects Proposed Bill Would Provide Accountability For Land Banks Bill Would Increase Portion of Public Employee Health Care Cap Minimum Wage Increase - A Serious Effort Or Just Rhetoric? Bill Would Allow Community …

March 7, 2014, MichiganVotes Weekly Vote Report

… Steelcase "Pyramid" building for a loosely defined, education-related "public/private partnership," along with other spending including more money for "land banks." The bill would also authorize $60.3 million in new debt for state college and university construction projects. Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted …

How We Use FOIA to Hold Government Accountable

Happy ‘Sunshine Week’ 2017

… law, instead basing pay strictly on degree-level and seniority. We learned of this through FOIA requests we sent to school districts. The Detroit Land Bank’s blight demolition program has come under scrutiny and was subject to a federal investigation for wasted funds and inefficiencies. An open records …

Low-income Americans Can Benefit From Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Displacement doesn’t happen nearly as often as we think

… thinking. But a working paper published in July by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia upends the conventional wisdom that gentrification harms … Travis County homeowner just in the last five years. He also cited burdensome land-use and building regulations as key contributors to Austin’s housing affordability …

The Student Debt Problem is Widely Misunderstood – Here Are Some Solutions

Student loan debt is around $1.5 trillion

… have completed advanced degrees. They will likely be fine. Maybe they won’t land their dream job, but they’re still highly employable and will be able to … today, adjusted for inflation. According to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for every $1 in federal loans and grants, schools have increased …

Recommendations

… 43,000 parcels of vacant city land to get it developed and back … Acquest Realty and National Bank of Detroit, some economic development … lawsuits are so common that many banks refuse to lend to developers. … cleanups should be suited to the land's future use. Every project … investigation costs on municipal land. Covenants not to sue should …

Lions and Tigers: Who Bears the Costs?

… The state has offered to kick in $55 million for land and infrastructure costs using money from the state … Wayne County, for its part, will pony up "surplus" land and institute new taxes on hotel stays and car … Park" thanks to a $66 million deal with Comerica Bank, and Detroit's Downtown Development Authority will …

Big Labor Fights Against Lansing Entrepreneurs … and Virg Bernero?

… of the contamination. The property sits on the bank of the Grand River, five blocks from the state … Aquilina ruled that he had held up his end of the land purchase contract and awarded the brownfield package … a privately-owned apartment complex on private land. Fisher believes the Lansing City Council's attempt …

Marking Environmental Progress — Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary — Part IV

Even more reasons to be optimistic about our future

… Better mapping reduces the costs of wildfires Less land is affected by wildfires Air conditioning costs … has a long shelf life Pesticides reduce amount of land needed for farming Geospatial technology allows … adding to their forested lands. For example, World Bank figures indicate that the United States increased …

Michigan Can't Afford the Status Quo

… us a dozen roses — when they land their jobs elsewhere. In 1960, … pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and land fill/recycling firms. The … business and living climate in the land — not to this or that special … and the falling prices for land and labor resources, the potential … chief economist of Comerica Bank, is senior economist at the …

A Magnificent Exposition

… depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating … heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, … carving, paintings, the management of drug-stores and banks, has not been trodden without contact with thorns …

Let's Take Another Look at Government as an Investor

… connected politically than new or existing small businesses. The Urban Land Assembly Fund is another state government-to-business transfer program, … record, will say that government should be an active investor, a public bank financing a wide variety of business undertakings. Others will argue that …

Governor Engler's Congressional Testimony on Internet Taxation

… approved by Congress in 1998. If this legislation should become the law of the land, then in Governor Engler's view, In effect, the federal government will … ensure that the revenue is routed to specific state and local government bank accounts. What Governor Engler may not realize is that basing his case …

Analysis: The "Cap" on Assessment Increases

… property taxes, and insurance within a reasonable share of their income. Banks and other lending institutions, federally-chartered institutions supporting … being a sale for tax purposes. Long-term leasebacks, leases-to-purchase, land contracts, intra-family transfers, and other arrangements blur the distinction …

How Fees Fuel Big Government

… for a one-time transfer of $15.0 million of the unreserved balance of the Land Survey and Remonumentation Fund to the General Fund." "General Fund" is … But money for the protection of property rights is far from the only piggy bank that has been raided by lawmakers. Here is another from earlier this month, …

March 30, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call

… Voted "No" House Bill 4803, Sell state fairgrounds: Passed 34 to 4 in the Senate  To transfer the state fairgrounds in Detroit to a Michigan "Land Bank Fast Track Authority" created by the legislature in 2003, which has extensive powers to assemble and dispose of tax reverted property. Alternatively, …

June 14, 2013, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Vote Report

Votes on Medicaid and state budget

… authority, authorize grants to local governments to create “wetland mitigation banks,” slightly reduce wetland regulatory burdens imposed on county drain commission … scope of those required by federal law, and make other changes to these land use restrictions. Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No" House Bill 4743, …

“It is one of the most important public health tools known to man.”

Alisha wants to know about mosquito control

… had mostly to do with killing mosquitos by spraying pesticides over the land. But there is much more to it. Clifton informed us that most mosquito control … while they are in their larval form. Floodwater mosquitos will build up egg banks in the soil that can survive for a couple of years. When an area is flooded, …

Grover Cleveland and Sound Currency

… experimented with two central banks, a national banking system, … regulating so-called "wildcat banks," paper money issues, legalized … the reserves of the nation’s banks threatened the sanctity of … circulation." The effect on bank credit was typical of any "easy … enters every household in the land. There is one important aspect …

Forging the Peninsulas

David McConnell

… less than one percent of Michigan land was good for farming. This document … on any such work" except to provide land.8 The heavily taxed voters were determined … the stock market crash of 1929 to bank closings, and the bank closings to the Great Depression in …

Appendix E: A Brief History of State Economic Development

… "industrial park" — in other words, land set aside for a particular … between 1929 and 1933 alone. Its bank deposits were effectively halved, … private citizens to obtain a bank loan to finance the construction … industrial-revenue bonds to buy land and erect a 15,000 square foot … State Borders," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Economist Thomas …

A Brief History of State Economic Development

… "industrial park" — in other words, land set aside for a particular … between 1929 and 1933 alone. Its bank deposits were effectively halved, … private citizens to obtain a bank loan to finance the construction … industrial-revenue bonds to buy land and erect a 15,000 square foot … State Borders," Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Economist Thomas …

Walden Green Montessori

An early charter shows it has staying power

… Walden Green’s new facility sits on nearly five acres of partly wooded land. The building features floor-to-ceiling windows in many spots, some spanning … accepting the maximum enrollment possible this year and next, "We talked the bank and the bondholders into saying we’ll grow in steps." One of his challenges …

How Fees Fuel Big Government

… for a one-time transfer of $15.0 million of the unreserved balance of the Land Survey and Remonumentation Fund to the General Fund.” “General Fund” is … But money for the protection of property rights is far from the only piggy bank that has been raided by lawmakers. Here is another from earlier this month, …

Great Lakes Levels in Constant Flux

… the Great Lakes region.[24] Interactions between land surface and atmosphere, particularly with regard … a life cycle allows them to replenish the seed bank in the sediments. Occasional low water levels are … T., and Gannon, J., contributors], 2002, Where land meets water—Understanding wetlands of the Great …

VI. Finding Progressive Solutions to Environmental Problems

… livestock grazing on stream banks and protect the area's wildlife, land and fish. By contrast, state-owned … Sweden, where most of the forest land is privately owned, has more … area larger than France. The land was seized from local inhabitants. … difficult for today's largest land animal, the elephant. The …

Tracking union money in school board elections

Public should be aware of who's paying for campaigns, some say

… "in-kind contributions," meaning the value of phone banks and mailings that the association donated on her … districts, but Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land ruled in 2006 that such plans violated the Campaign … for political purposes. The MEA filed suit over Land’s ruling, and Ingham County Circuit Court Judge …

MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 9, 2003

… fisheries, water, outdoor recreation, oil and gas, as well as timber and federal land-use policy. Cost is $5.00 per student, lunch included. For more information … senior policy analyst for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Sharon Banks, superintendent of the Lansing School District, and Teressa Staten, president …

MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 16, 2003

… fisheries, water, outdoor recreation, oil and gas, as well as timber and federal land-use policy. Cost is $5.00 per student, lunch included. For more information … senior policy analyst for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Sharon Banks, superintendent of the Lansing School District, and Teressa Staten, president …

Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy

Remarks before the Economic Club of Detroit

… wielded power, the people of that sad land who survived that period lived at something … our judgments. If a thief goes from bank to bank, stealing all the cash he can get his … walk the length and breadth of this land and not find a soul who would say he’d …

50 Reasons to be Optimistic About Our Future

… Building on the same theme, the amount of land affected by wildfire has gone down … proportion dropped to 14% in 2015.” World Bank numbers mirror this report. The World Bank explains that, in 2015, only 10% of … food is produced on fewer acres of land. Additionally, new technologies allow …

Endnotes

… Challenges for Employers” (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Bulletin, March … Growth in U.S. States” (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2010-006A, … Challenges for Employers” (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Bulletin, March … Wukuang Cun and M. Hashem Pesaran, “Land Use Regulations, Migration and Rising …

All “MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report” Votes for 2011

… exempt machinery used to install land tile on farm property from … equipment used by businesses. “Land tile” is defined as “fired … Supreme Court ruling (MEA vs. Land), districts are already prohibited … forfeiture of real property (land and buildings) used in the … law, these must be paid by bank draft, check, cashier's check, …

News Coverage (Hundreds of items)

… Sept. 30, 2004 Schools may swap land for cash The Detroit News, … Sept. 8, 2004 Lawmakers seek land sale cash Booth Newspapers/AP, … 24, 2004 Lawmakers look to land sales to pump up revenues … News , Nov. 21, 2003 Schools bank $1.84 billion, still fight … service panel approves state's banked-leave plan The Detroit News …

All “MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call Report” Votes for 2012

… taxes” (PILT) on state-owned land in their jurisdictions, and … 1276, Restrict setting aside state land for “biological diversity”: … from designating an area of land specifically for the purpose … in Detroit to a Michigan "Land Bank Fast Track Authority" created … in Detroit to a Michigan "Land Bank Fast Track Authority" created …

Introduction to Economics

… further developed through the introduction of the four factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. Billings presents a short biography … but not a very desirable commodity. The text then examines the role of banks in supplying money and the relationship between deposits, loans, and interest …

The Study of Economics: Principles, Concepts & Applications

… interest. Instead the text is more concerned with factors of production, such as land, labor and capital. These topics are clearly important, but no more so than … System and argues that it is needed to prevent market failure. He criticizes banks in the nineteenth century for "unrestrained issuance of currency and imprudent …

Public Act 397 of 2002 (HB 5892)

… services. (iv) Design of plans and specifications. (v) Acquisition of land or structural components, or both. (vi) Building, erection, alteration, … subdivision of the state. Sec. 19705. The bonds are securities in which banks, savings and loan associations, state authorities, investment companies, …

Endnotes

… Michigan Biotechnology Institute, Michigan Consolidated Gas, Michigan National Bank, Motorola Semiconductors, Nabisco, Quaker Oats, Sandia National Laboratories, … Tuesday, September 24, 1996. (7A) Thomas F. Bertonneau. “Alice in Mandate Land.” Viewpoint on Public Issues. No. 95-02, January 9, 1995, Mackinac Center …

Endnotes

… tax reduction is not straightforward. Much – though not all – agricultural land is used for profit, as is some timber-cutover, along with commercial and … and Local Taxes on Economic Growth." Chicago, IL. Harris Trust and Savings Bank, November 1978, and its December 1982 follow-up by Robert Genetski and Lynn …

Notes and References

… country tested positive for cocaine and noting that banks play a role in spreading the drug traces when tellers … United States, 96 U.S. 395 (1878)(holding that land leased to a distiller who defrauded the U.S., where … owner lacked knowledge of the fraudulent use of his land, was still subject to forfeiture because the property …

Winners Never Quit, and Quitters Never Win

… purchased from France in 1803. The title to that land was acquired by France by right of conquest from Spain. The land came into the possession of Spain by right of discovery … Policy Network, we come together often, at Resource Bank and other meetings, allowing us to create new synergies …

XI. Endnotes

… Environmentalism,p. 148. Ed Zern, "By Yon Bonny Banks," Field and Stream, 86, September, 1981, p. 120. … Kirby and William Arthur, Our National Forests: Land in Peril (Washington, DC: The Wilderness Society … it difficult to control public access to their land. Ibid., pp. 394-398. Ibid., p. 367. Ibid., p. …

Issues and Ideas Forum Presentation by Angus McBeath

… government would give us more money. You could almost bank on getting more money every year, and we would … United Airlines for how many planes take off and land without killing the passengers?" If I phoned them … you say every United flight has to take off and land without killing the passengers (a reasonable outcome), …

Cumulative Weekly Roll Call Reports 2013

… infrastructure-related spending including buying land, construction and major repairs. … and Kimberly, age 24. Brian Banks, D-Grosse Pointe Woods, 1st … - BrianBanks@house.mi.gov Personal Career: Banks was a first-time political … Then, in the general election, Banks won the 1st District seat overwhelmingly … for his doctorate. Personal: Banks dropped out of high school …

The Bills of September - Bills

House Bills 5285 to 5493; Senate Bills 786 to 882

… state government leases of land or buildings that cost more … one member be employed by a bank or other financial institution. …   House Bill 5328 (Revise land grant to Calhoun County hospital) … 2009, to transfer certain state land in Calhoun County formerly … language in the 2003 "Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority" law …