June 2012
15 posts
Down to the wire on student loans
2012swingstates:
The House and Senate are poised to vote today on a package that will keep student loan rates from doubling on Sunday.
mtvpowerof12:
beyonce isn’t the only one counting down until student loan interest rates double on july 1st.
Snyder: Michigan to launch affordable health... →
Nearly 114K Michigan families would health... →
2012swingstates:
Michiganders under individual or small business insurance plans may be eligible for a rebate under a provisions by the Affordable Care Act. Michigan is one of 26 states challenging the law, on which the U.S. Supreme Court will rule as early as Monday.
“It will help generate construction jobs immediately and more jobs in the future...”
– U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), in the Detroit Free Press, on the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program (TIGER), which will provide a $10-million federal grant to improve bike and pedestrian connections within Detroit and surrounding areas. Detroiters can look forward to...
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Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, visited Detroit last week as part of a tour to tout the Affordable Care Act, including an announcement that Michigan will receive $3.6 million in grant money to support three metro Detroit community health centers.
The pending Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act should not affect the grant,...
“There is no excuse for state government to hang on to more money than it needs.”
– Rep. Nancy Jenkins (R), on votes in the Michigan state legislature that would lower the personal income tax rate in the state. Both the senate and the house in Lansing approved measures to lower the income tax rates on Thursday. (via 2012swingstates)
“The question of when is probably more important than the question of whether.”
– Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Levin, Armed Services Committee chairman, is optimistic that a debt deal will be reached before the November elections.
“Eighty or 90 percent of us would really like to avoid it,” Levin said regarding a middle-class tax hike that will go into effect in 2013 if action isn’t...
What the charter says →
After the court ruling on June 13, the claims for the actions taken by both Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon and Mayor Dave Bing are presented from the Detroit City Charter.
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“You don’t put the city at risk of not being able to pay our police...”
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Detroit was on the brink of a major fiscal crisis. The State of Michigan threatened to withhold $80 million in revenue sharing unless a lawsuit brought on by Detroit Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon was dropped. Efforts to keep Detroit from having a financial advisory board oversee the city’s...
“If this bill were to become law, it would unravel health care reform.”
– U.S. Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.), in reference to a vote in the house last week in favor of repealing a tax on medical devices. The tax, which is to be implemented in January, was intended to offset costs of subsidizing insurance coverage as part of the Obama health care law.
Proponents of the...
“This is not brain surgery. It should be an FBI person, maybe a CIA person. If...”
– Former Michigan congressman Pete Hoekstra (R) made news last week by saying he would create an office that would verify a presidential candidate’s citizenship. “Birtherism” is not prevalent in Michigan. Hoekstra currently is the GOP front-runner to challenge Debbie Stabenow (D) for her U.S. Senate...
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Will new voter ID laws hurt Democrats in Michigan?
Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm said on her Current TV show The War Room that Michigan’s Republican-led state legislature is passing bills that will hurt the Democratic Party during this and possibly future elections, such as Michigan’s new “Voter ID” laws.
Senate Bills 751, 754 and 803 went into effect on June...
The 12 | Tumbling the 2012 campaign: Romney leads... →
2012swingstates:
A poll released by EPIC-MRA of Lansing shows Mitt Romney ahead in Michigan by one point, 46 percent to Obama’s 45 percent. In an earlier poll by EPIC, President Obama was ahead, 47%-43%. These poll results show a major shift from Public Polling Policy’s poll released in late May, where Obama…
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WatchAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concussions or TBIs tend to occur most often during the following sports: bicycling, football, basketball, and soccer. For those aged 10-19, males were most likely to obtain TBIs during football or cycling; while among females basketball, soccer and bicycling caused the most problems.
Michigan is on its way to passing a bill to help...
