Supporters of the Obama health care reforms, which are modeled after the Massachusetts system, suffered a major setback on Tuesday. A Harvard Medical School study released to the media found that the percentage of personal...
Read MoreMacomb County’s interim finance director, Dave Diegel, has become the Brett Favre of county government. Diegel retired in January 2010 after a long and successful career.Then, weeks later, he resurfaced as a county...
Read MoreSandy Levin weighs in on the controversy over public employee unions in a guest column he wrote (which is on his web site). Levin recalls the days in the 1960s when he was working in the state Senate and writing Michigan’s...
Read MoreMcClatchy Newspapers has produced an excellent piece of journalism, a study of public employee pensions which shows that all of this uproar is largely a manufactured, phony issue. The reality is that pensions comprise just a...
Read MoreSen. John Ensign’s announcement Monday that he will not seek re-election marks a milestone on Capitol Hill, as the number of Senate retirements in the first two months of the 111th Congress is now more than we’ve...
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