June 19, 2013

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Rick Snyder

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With Film Incentive Capped, Michigan's Movie Jobs Face An Uncertain Future

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.26.2011 | Detroit

Read More: Film Industry, Michigan Film Incentive, Film Credit, Iron Man 3, Film Incentive, Marvel Studios, Movie Industry, The Avengers, Unemployment, Jennifer Granholm, Michigan Film Credit, Detroit, Retraining, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Detroit News

Sean Doerr knows Detroit. He's been poking around the city since he was 14, exploring its forgotten buildings and learning the names of architects lon...

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New Bridge Proposed Between Detroit And Canada A Prisoner To History

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 11.17.2011 | Detroit

Read More: Matty Moroun, Detroit International Bridge Company, Detroit River, Ambassador Bridge, Manuel Moroun, Rick Snyder, Detroit News

DETROIT -- In this city of relics, one rises above the rest: the Ambassador Bridge, the sole route for almost all freight traffic traveling from here ...

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Low-Income Michigan Families Taxed Into Poverty: Report

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 11.16.2011 | Detroit

While Michigan businesses are expecting a 1.1 billion-dollar tax break come January, low-income families in the state have seen their taxes raised ove...

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Rick Snyder To Propose Wholesale Tax On Fuel

AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 12.26.2011 | Detroit

Read More: Rick Snyder Wholesale Fuel Tax, Detroit News, Wholesale Fuel Tax Michigan, Wholesale Fuel Tax, Rick Snyder, Detroit News

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder plans to propose dropping the tax Michigan charges on each gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel in favor of a t...

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Michigan Bans 'Partial-Birth' Abortions, Which May Not Even Happen In U.S.

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 11.26.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Michigan lawmakers passed legislation last week that will ban "partial-birth" abortions, which have been federally outlawed since 2007 a...

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Recovery Schools Chief Defends Record In Kansas City

The Detroit News | Jennifer Chambers | Posted 11.22.2011 | Home

The new leader of a Michigan recovery system for failing schools defended his record in Kansas City on Wednesday, a day after the district he used to ...

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Detroit Public Schools To Cut 40% Of Teachers Over 4 Years

The Detroit News | Jennifer Chambers | Posted 11.20.2011 | Home

Detroit Public Schools expects to shed nearly 40 percent of its teachers in the next four years to help close a $327 million deficit, yet projects a l...

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No Joke, No Hyperbole: 2012 May Be America's Final Election

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.18.2011 | Politics

Read More: Florida, 2012 Elections, Wisconsin, South, Michigan, Voting, Scott Walker, Ohio, Medicare, Baker v Carr., Right Wing, Fdr, Rick Snyder, Elections 2012, Politics News

If anyone believed 2011 was the year of the direct assault on proponents of the middle class, clean air and water, public education, and respect for first responders, and democracy itself, just wait until 2013.

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Education Secretary 'Optimistic' About Detroit's Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.08.2011 | Home

DETROIT -- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave the Motor City a homework assignment Thursday. "Can Detroit become the fastest-improving ur...

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Can John Covington Save Detroit's Schools?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.01.2011 | Home

When appointing John Covington chancellor of Michigan's Education Achievement System, a plan to transform low-performing schools that will pilot in De...

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Michigan Republicans Move To Privatize Public School Teaching

Mother Jones | By Andy Kroll | Posted 11.01.2011 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Education News, Gretchen Whitmer, Rick Snyder Education, Public School Teachers, Students, Phil Pavlov, Politics News, Education, Privatization, Budget Deficit, Teachers, Michigan, Sen. Phil Pavlov, Republicans, Rick Snyder, Politics News

In Michigan, a state perennially crippled by budget deficits, public school districts across the state have already outsourced their bus drivers, cafe...

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GOP Lawmakers Move To Limit Health Coverage For Michigan Employees

AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 10.24.2011 | Politics

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Republicans dealt another blow to public employee unions Wednesday as they pushed ahead with a plan to force local gov...

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New Law Links Student Progress To Teacher Tenure

Posted 09.19.2011 | Home

Read More: Chris Christie, Teacher Evaluations, Education, Teacher Tenure, New Jersey, New Jersey Schools, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Assessment, Michigan Schools, Teacher Tenure Reform, Education Reform, Teachers, Michigan, Rick Snyder, Home News

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a teacher tenure reform bill into law Tuesday, overhauling teacher performance evaluations by tying it to student ach...

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Standing Up for Economic Rights Is a Human Right

Randi Weingarten | Posted 09.18.2011 | Business

Read More: Egypt Protests, Collective Bargaining, Wisconsin, Labor, American Federation of Teachers, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Al Shanker, Ohio, Scott Walker, John Kasich, Teachers Union, Labor Unions, Rick Snyder, Wisconsin Protests, Business News

As Arab citizens take to the streets in their respective countries, several extremist governors and advocates are stripping American workers of their economic rights and voice by working to eliminate or weaken collective bargaining and voter protections.

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U.S. Legal Immigration Slowed Dramatically During Recession: OECD

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 09.13.2011 | Business

Read More: Great Recession, New Migration, Michael Bloomberg, Illegal Immigrants, Detroit, Mexico, New York Times, Immigration, Michigan, Oecd, Rick Snyder, Video, Business News

Legal immigration to the U.S. has slowed considerably since the Great Recession began, according to a newly released report by the Paris-based Organiz...

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Weighing Detroit's Charter Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.07.2011 | Home

The majority of the Motor City's charter high schools underperform the city's traditional public schools, according to an analysis published Thursday ...

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Michigan's Governor Tramples Democracy

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 08.28.2011 | Politics

Read More: Detroit-Michigan, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Shock Doctrine, Wall Street, Great Recession, Rick Snyder, Politics News

Perhaps Gov. Snyder has forgotten the words of the Pledge of Allegiance. We pledge our allegiance not to the corporate state, not to one party or one ideology, but to the republic, one nation, under God with liberty and justice for all.

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States That Cut The Most Funding Lost The Most Jobs: Analysis

Posted 08.27.2011 | Business

Read More: State Budget Cuts, Debt Ceiling, Budget Cuts, Scott Walker, State Funding Cuts, Federal Budget Cuts, John Kasich, Rick Snyder, Business News

Republican governors have touted spending cuts as both fiscally responsible, and economically prudent. But a new analysis casts doubt on that narrativ...

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New Detroit Public Schools Budget Cuts Teacher Pay, Non-Teaching Services

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.23.2011 | Home

This story has been updated. Detroit Public Schools officials released the district's proposed 2012 budget Thursday, a plan rife with cuts and chan...

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Lawsuit, Appointments Follow Detroit Education Plan Announcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.22.2011 | Home

Read More: Education News, Education, Public Act 4, Burt Johnson, Sugar Law Center, Litigation, Lawsuits, Education Reform, Harvey Santana, Emergency Manager Law, Rick Snyder, Home News

Nearly 30 Michigan residents filed a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to overturn a law that gave state-appointed "emergency managers" near carte blanche ...

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Detroit Education Reform: Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.21.2011 | Home

When Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) presented sweeping reforms to Detroit's -- and, eventually, Michigan's -- schools on Monday, he accompanied the new...

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Detroit Public Schools To Come Under New State-Run Authority

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.20.2011 | Home

Read More: Education, Detroit Schools, Arne Duncan, Obama Education, Charter Schools, Education Reform Michigan, Teachers Unions, Detroit, Michigan Schools, Harvey Santana, Education Reform, Michigan, Phil Pavlov, Rick Snyder, Home News

A plan revealed Monday to overhaul Detroit's public schools left stakeholders with more questions than answers about the future of education in the M...

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Small Town America Pushes Back Against Cuts To Local Services

The Wall Street Journal | Kate Linebaugh | Posted 08.08.2011 | Politics

Read More: State Budgets, Budget Cuts, State Budget Crisis, Small Towns, Municipal Services, Small Town America, Rick Snyder Budget Cuts, Municipal Debt, Rick Snyder, Municipalities, Politics News

Around the country public officials are asking themselves similar questions. Plunging property-tax receipts and rising pension and health-care costs h...

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