The We Are Michigan concert series is a three-day event to help raise awareness about gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender human rights issues in 3 Michigan cities. Each evening will feature an array of music with activists who will share their experiences fighting for gay rights.
Thursday April 30th at the Magic Bag in Ferndale features [...]
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October 2, 2008 – 6:43 pm
Barrel room at Merryvale by star5112
Tom Wark's Fermentation wine blog says:
Michigan Consumers should be smiling. A Federal District Court Judge in that state ruled on Tuesday that the state's law that bars consumers from buying and having wine shipped to them from out-of-state retailers violated the U.S. Constitution and enjoined the State from enforcing laws [...]
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For more on this issue visit Save the Wild UP and also check out Anatomy of a mine: Lansing hearings put U.P. wilderness on trial from the Lansing City Pulse:
The hearings hit hard rock Wednesday, April 30, when a white-haired man in suspenders slowly made his way to the stand, leaning on a cane.
Jack [...]
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December 1, 2007 – 12:49 pm
Capitol, Landing MI by Irina Vasiliu
Below you'll find a news release from Governor Granholm regarding an agreement to add a 21.9% surcharge to the new Michigan Business Tax to replace the 6% Michigan Service Tax.
The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News have details on the agreement as well.
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November 30, 2007 – 9:08 am
Carousel by jnhkrawczyk
"We've got a shift starting in 36 hours that we've got to charge 6% more on ... and I don't know how to do it."
-John Evans, president of Evans Distribution
Welcome to Michigan, where we somehow seem to be stuck in the Reality TV version of Groundhog Day: Your Government inAction. With just hours [...]
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October 11, 2007 – 9:08 am
Half Staff by Apocaplops
UPDATE Oct 25: Carol of ArborLaw.com writes:
I actually have the entire list of services descriptions covered by the law, on my blog at Arborlaw.com. When the law came out, I cross-referenced the NAICS codes (which are incorporated into the new law specifically by reference) with the section numbers from the bill and [...]
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October 1, 2007 – 10:27 am
An appeal to reason by Apocaplops
StateGate seems like it might be nearing its conclusion with an 13th hour deal reached at 4 AM when legislators were apparently too tired to fight anymore. The LSJ reports:
"This budget agreement is the right solution for Michigan," Gov. Jennifer Granholm said in a news release after the vote. "We [...]
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August 29, 2007 – 8:03 am
In Kiters Defend Access, IPR News Radio notes that although the Michigan Supreme Court says anyone can walk along the beaches of the Great Lakes below the ordinary high water mark, landowners often take issue with kiteboarders setting up.
Photo: Smile as big as the kite by Andy McFarlane
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Down by the Big Sauble River by simply, Diann
The Grand Rapids Press quotes former Michigan Governor William Milliken as saying that Michigan's Environmental Protection Act included the word "anyone" to give anyone the right to sue over damage to the state's water, air or land.
"It was clearly the intent of the Legislature and clearly [...]
Flow by rckrawczykjr
In the wake of yesterday's 4-3 decision by the Michigan Supreme Court in Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation vs. Nestle Waters North America, Inc, Dave Dempsey write:
Michigan's future is much more at risk today because of the court’s attack on Michigan’s constitutionally protected natural resources.”
Justices Taylor, Young, Corrigan and Markman—the Court’s right-wing ideological [...]
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