Michigan strengthens the Emergency Financial Manager law, giving the EFM authority to dissolve local elected officials, both school boards and city councils and mayors. These expanded powers are specifically requested by the Governor and approved by both houses of the legislature. Michigan legislature meets behind closed doors to draw up a redistricting map, then schedules […]
It has been 10 days now in which the leading political story is the story of Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York. 10 days of titillation, 10 days of feigned shock and outrage, 10 days of lies and apologies, 10 days of righteous indignation and hypocrisy, 10 days of political pontification and prediction. The primary […]
We have tried government rewards for a promise of performance. But that is contrary to all common business behavior. We should turn that around. The driving principle is the reversal of the discredited belief that tax cuts create jobs. They do not. That principle must be discarded and replaced with: “Good Jobs Create Tax Cuts”.