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Trade War?
Maybe not but POTUS may not suffer Click Here for Details
Pension Spiking, Early Payouts, Second Careers Make For High-Income Cops
Former East Lansing Police Chief Jeff Murphy retired in 2017. In his last year on the job, Murphy collected $157,258 in total compensation. This included $24,257 in accrued sick time he was allowed to cash out. Another $28,853 in accrued paid time off also helped spike his lifetime police pension to $91,000 a year. … more
Un-Constitutional
Fighting back against Deerfield IL’s gun ban Click Here for Details
Who Is John Huber?
The mystery of AG investigating the DOJ and FBI? Click Here for Story
Tit for Tat?
More tariff threats from China and US Click Here for Details
Gov’t Jobs Down Under Trump
21000 fewer Federal jobs as President cuts Fed jobs Click Here for Story
Import 3rd World Become 3rd World
6 stabbed overnight in London Click Here for Details
The level of underfunding in Michigan’s public school pension system increased again last year, but this time it wasn’t because officials failed to deposit the right amount into the system. 
Man who helped You Tube attack victims wishes he could have done more? 
If so Andrew McCabe may have a problem 
The evidence is clear that the academic achievement produced by Michigan public school students, on average, lags the nation. The publicity surrounding this fact heightens the temptation to start a hollow drumbeat of misguided and simplistic prescriptions. 
Saudi Prince says Israel has a right to exist? 
Trump poll numbers better than Obama at same time in Administration
Caravan of refugees continues north 
In 2014, the Michigan Legislature overwhelmingly passed new laws that allow terminally ill patients to try medicine that has passed the first phase of the federal approval process but are not yet fully permitted for use. This proposal is commonly known as “right to try.” 
National security is at stake with an open border
Is Mexico helping a mass of refugees move toward American border 
In the second year of the Trump administration, domestic crude oil production in the U.S. is on pace to set an all-time high. 
Powerful folks tried to derail the Chappaquiddick film C
McDonald’s expanding tuition program because of tax reforms
In one Michigan county, a union filed a federal complaint to stop an employer from giving raises, at least without its permission. 
Teacher assigns antigun assignment to students 
Great Economy helping President’s poll numbers 
Reports that AG Sessions is tired of FBI slow walk of requested Congressional subpoenas 
In a recent op-ed in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, Doug DeVos, former chair of the West Michigan Policy Forum, outlines why “criminal justice reform is the right thing to do, for all of us.” Citing Michigan’s high corrections spending and relatively high crime rate, DeVos calls for change. 
While Michigan politicians are engulfed in perennial debates over finding more money for road repairs, each year about $200 million of current state transportation revenue goes not for concrete and asphalt, but to repay debt incurred on road repairs completed years earlier. 
Middle Schooler in trouble for pointing cell phone like a gun? 
Is the giant retailer facinganti-trust laws?
Friday April 6, 2018
Why Aren’t We Cutting Back?
Places the GOP and POTUS could cut spending Click Here for Details
Mexico Break Up Caravan
POTUS thanks Mexico for heading off refugee wave heading to US? Click Here for Story
Pension Spiking, Early Payouts, Second Careers Make For High-Income Cops
To The Border!
Real or Fake News?
Is General Kelly losing influence in Trump Administration? Click Here for Story
Illegals Getting ID
Is this affecting the vote? Click Here for Details
Bad AI?
Can we avoid a robot killer army? Click Here for Story
Ruh Roh?
Does China have the upper hand in trade negotiations? Click Here for Details
Pope’s Scandal
FBI Still Hiding Documents