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Wetlands You Can't Bank On

… start "a wetland mitigation bank," an area that is managed specifically … owner of an approved wetland bank can receive state certified … destroyed. Wetland mitigation banks make it easier for developers, … maintenance of the wetland in the bank. Such wetland banks are precisely … established for use by commercial land developers. Even more disturbing, …

Our Accomplishments

… they caused the Small Business Administration to pay lender fees to the bank that processed the loans,” the Justice Department’s Civil Division announced … 2010-2019 | 2020-present Dec 2009 Merit pay for teachers becomes law of the land Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed into law a requirement that school districts …

Michigan Needs a 'State Bank'

by Michigan Sen. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit

… Michigan should run its own bank. This idea has recently been … have already purchased the land and entered into leases to … loan. This proposed state bank would provide our small businesses … not against the market. The bank that we are proposing would be a wholesale bank which would support our community …

Land Use: Markets, Mandates, or Both?

… being drawn between competing land-use interests than on Old Mission … the Peninsula has made farm land extremely expensive. Many farmers … activists are trying to keep land from being developed on Old … easement. There are 40 charitable land trusts in Michigan today that … attracts developers with bigger bank rolls. Environmentalists will …

Clearing the Forest for Solar: A Green Mistake in the Making

… state approved plans to log 420 acres of forest near Gaylord and clear the land for solar installations. I appeared on “The Dave Bondy Show,” “Tom Jordan … areas, lawmakers appear more concerned about getting greenbacks into the bank accounts of solar developers and monopoly utilities. The Gaylord project …

Racetrack Buys Property From Wayne Co. Taxpayers for $1 and Sells It for $179K

One-dollar investment may yet yield two more property sales for track owners

… Township racecourse that bought land for $1 from Wayne County less … Pinnacle Race Course bought the land after agreeing to numerous … could not get details of the land deal on Thursday. The land … voicemail. The Wayne County Land Bank Authority sold the land to … Analysis: Genesee County Land Bank Threatens Private Property …

MichiganVotes.org June 11 Weekly Roll Call Report

… Authorize extra Detroit/Wayne "land bank" property tax breaks, passed … combined Detroit/Wayne County "land bank" authority, rather than the … year tax break for other land bank authorities.  Complete Roll … among the things that local "land bank" authorities are supposed … Add public transportation to land use planning considerations, …

August 9, 2013, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Vote Report

… House Bill 4626: Authorize land bank sanction and complaint process … for a local government “land bank” that acquired tax reverted … ruling went against the land bank and was upheld by a circuit court, the director of the land bank would have to be fired. This … cost to the Kent County land bank, as a way of circumventing …

Legislative Proposals Revealing of Michigan's Plight

… promulgated a law prohibiting knights from killing rich widows and taking their land, we can infer that there was a whole lotta widow-killing going on back then. … R-Muskegon, on Dec. 10, 2009, to revise the 2003 law that created local "land bank" authorities empowered to assemble and dispose of abandoned tax reverted …

'Privatize Federal Lands,' Says Newest Nobel Laureate

The 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (more commonly … Smith, is an advocate of federal land privatization. Michigan's government, … owns 12 percent of the state's land, could learn from the newest … environment” by privatizing federal land holdings. Former Mackinac … privatization journal. The article, “Land Ho! Should Government Be Lanlord?” …