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Kent County Republicans, Democrats field questions about paying for public education

Lindsey Smith — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:48:49 +0000

About 500 people in West Michigan spent a couple hours Friday night in Grand Rapids, talking with their state representatives about how to fund public education.

The forum was rescheduled from last week after a fire marshal shut it down in Lowell (20 miles west of Grand Rapids) because so many people showed up it broke the fire code of the building.

Last night the crowd was passionate, at times interrupting and booing Republican lawmakers.

Michigan economist on state's new tax structure

Jennifer White — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:25:59 +0000

Governor Snyder and the legislature have come to an agreement on the state’s new tax structure. Does it make fiscal sense? 

Michigan Radio's Jennifer White spoke with Charles Ballard, an economist at Michigan State University and author of “Michigan’s Economic Future.” Here's the interview.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-969650.mp3

Rolling the Dice

Jack Lessenberry — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:49:40 +0000

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/michigan/local-michigan-963848.mp3

We in the media have been paying a lot of attention to Governor Snyder’s attempts to push his program through the legislature. Mostly, we‘ve been preoccupied with the mechanics.

Last week, we talked about his compromise on the pension tax. Soon, we‘ll be discussing what seems likely to be the governor’s success at cutting spending for the schools. Occasionally, we remember to mention the reason for all this painful budget slashing.