You can feed sparrows by spreading the feed right on the ground or by feeding the horse and letting the sparrows pick through what is left behind. Everyone knows which is more efficient - except Michigan lawmakers and "economic development" officials.
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Michigan already provides free preschool for families up to about $75,000. That means this program would mostly go to families in the upper or upper-middle class. It also means more people sending kids to Pre-K which means higher prices for everyone, driving out low-income kids.
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I could not have raised my girls while continuing my career without affordable pre-K. Every Parent in Michigan deserves the same.
That’s why I’m proposing Pre-K for All to save families an average of $10,000 a year and ensure 110,000 4-years-olds get a great start. #MiSOTS23
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This will mostly subsidize wealthier families and drive the cost of preschool higher for those who need it the most.
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An essential aspect of reproductive freedom is supporting families who choose to have kids AND those who do not. Establishing pre-K for all will save families $10,000 per year and get our kids on a path to a brighter future! #MiSOTS23
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MoviePass is back and I'm back in!
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There has been a series of articles about Michigan becoming a "climate haven," spiking worry about overpopulation and our water supply. I write about why these fears are way overblown.
There is little evidence that too many people moving to Michigan or a population boom threatening the water supply are issues that should cause Michiganders to lose any sleep.
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Michigan shouldn’t worry about becoming a ‘climate haven’
The real "fake news" is the local paper running a press release from the government - filled with absolute falsehoods - under the "news" section.
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This is the "bitter lesson" of environmentalism, that the aesthetically repellent systems that are optimized for industrial efficiency usually have less impact, because industrial efficiency is close enough to "use less stuff" that they're usually aligned.
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Welp: "Why single-use coffee pods are better for the planet than filter brewing" washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti
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Because it provides convenience to more people and very few people take public transit almost anywhere in the country.
“More people are buying cryptocurrencies, which appeal to investors because the market is not controlled by the government. Instead it is controlled by 13-year-old Justin Weeblemonger of Teaneck, NJ, who runs the whole shebang out of his PlayStation 5.”
This is strange framing. Medicaid is supposed to be for low-income residents. It is a good thing that the government checks to make sure people have low enough incomes to qualify. Expanding the program beyond low-income residents weakens it.
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The Legislature does have something better: Slowly/steadily adding more money to the transportation budget. There's billions sitting on the sidelines which could also go to roads, not to mention massive waste in other parts of the budget.
Huge tax increases are very unpopular.
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RUSTY HILLS: @GovWhitmer’s “45-cent gas tax hike was a bad idea four years ago, and it is still a bad idea. Republicans have to come up with something better.”
NARRATOR: GOP had 12 years of Legislature control to come up with a better road funding plan.
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2008: California will have a high-speed rail from Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2020 at a cost of $30 billion.
2023: California will have a train from Bakersfield to Merced hopefully by 2030 at a cost of no less than $170 billion.
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Totally agree with here: The important thing is people making a good living. Too often the government, and society, focuses only on the path of certain college degrees rather than the actual end goal.
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Flooring job today.
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A note to media: More than 140,000 people have left Michigan's unions in the past decade. The Bureau of Labor Statistics survey data is not reliable, especially at the state level and especially for one-year trends.
Here are the true membership numbers mackinac.org/pressroom/2022
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Democrats and Republicans both want to expand the EITC and most of the media in Michigan has referred to this as a "tax cut." That's factually wrong - it doesn't cut taxes; it increases government subsidies to some people.
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How can you live in Michigan and, apparently, be completely unfamiliar with Flint, Benton Harbor and Detroit (all public, all a mess)???
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It's kind of incredible how much Detroit - an ostensibly progressive city - subsidizes massive developments time and time again.
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The replies to this prove the point.
There are an incredible amount of very high-income people who are obsessed with pretending they are not well-off. And they feel like they aren't because of a multitude of poor financial decisions they could easily change but don't want to.
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People never believe they are rich.
>it’s not like we get to live lavish or anything close to that.
>eat wherever we want, own a house, new cars, nice cloths
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"If Stabenow’s words are so important that they can’t be muffled by a mask, how much more important is classroom instruction in math and English and history?"
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Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow recently spoke at a public school in Ann Arbor. The 72-year-old was unmasked, while the teenage students she spoke to were forced to wear masks. This is in violation of the district’s publicly announced masking policy.
michigancapitolconfidential.com/analysis/stabe
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I was on "The Follow Up" on our local PBS station discussing the potential repeal of Michigan's right-to-work law and why I think that would be a bad idea.
Check out VP of Marketing/Comms discussing the #mileg potentially repealing Michigan's right-to-work law on "The Follow Up" on .
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A good piece from .
A lot of regulation (good or bad) is sustained by hiding the true costs to consumers. When people are affected directly, there's huge pushback.
We get better public policy by measuring regulatory costs/benefits/trade-offs and discussing them openly.
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I wrote (for paid subscribers) on how fights over product regulation -- like with light bulbs and toilets -- can go on so long that, before we're even finished arguing, product innovation renders the complaints moot. joshbarro.com/p/from-my-cold
Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow recently spoke at a public school in Ann Arbor. The 72-year-old was unmasked, while the teenage students she spoke to were forced to wear masks. This is in violation of the district’s publicly announced masking policy.
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My kids have done this to school and back every day since age 6. The most disturbing part of this is that the 9-year-old has a phone.
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Still STUNNED by how our culture has managed to "dangerize" things as simple & safe as a 9-y.o. walking a quarter mile home in the 'burbs.
Here's today's ethics qu about it in @NYTimes. Grandma wants to HIRE A CHAPERONE for the .25 mile. Thoughts?
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For additional context: At the time, "public schools" were essentially Protestant schools and "private schools" were Catholic schools. There was an intense anti-Catholic bigotry sweeping the nation and much of the political establishment. Some of it still exists in state law.
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“Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” - President Ulysses S. Grant, 1875 core.ac.uk/download/pdf/2
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One of the first bills introduced by Michigan Democrats would force all public-sector workers — school employees, state and local workers, etc. — to become members or pay fees to a labor union or else be fired. This bill violates the U.S. Constitution.
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One time someone was shot at a house in Saginaw and a news service inexplicably turned it into two articles about Airbnb. One insinuated it had something to do with the shooting and the other speculating wildly about the economic effects of the service.
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2nd place for the little guy today. (I had to stay home with sickness, unfortunately).
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I don't recall any articles like this about Pam Hornberger, Aaron Miller, Brad Paquette, Greg Markkanen, etc.
It's hard for some people to understand that teachers have all kinds of views on things. One-third of teachers have opted out of their unions!
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Michigan teachers say they’re ignored in Lansing. Now, they’re in charge. bit.ly/3iCWxK8
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Michigan court(s) say the name of the woman former President Mark Schlissel was allegedly having an affair with can be redacted from FOIA. She was a subordinate but this was a consensual relationship and this decision is strange. courts.michigan.gov/siteassets/cas
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Bear fans.
(Saw this on FB, apologies to whoever created it for not citing).
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"On the medical front, many states and municipalities drop their mask mandates as elected officials become aware of new scientific data showing that there is a strong statistical correlation between enforcing mask mandates and not getting re-elected." -DB
BREAKING: Michigan Right-to-Work Repeal Bills Are Unconstitutional
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A reminder to lawmakers and the media: Requiring public sector workers to pay dues or fees to a labor union is a violation of their constitutional rights. #mileg
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Mackinac Center Promotes Skorup and Guenthner
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