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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, …