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1 hr ago | WXMI-TV Grand Rapids

President Obama Approves Gov. Snyder's Request For Disaster Declaration For 16 Counties

Gov. Rick Snyder announced that the president has declared a major disaster area for 16 counties across Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas due to the severe flood damage that occurred from April 16 to May 14. The affected counties are Allegan, Barry, Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Ionia, Kent, Keweenaw, Marquette, Midland, Muskegon, Newaygo, ... (more)

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5 hrs ago | Detroit News

Medicaid battle to be fierce in Senate

A controversial bill to expand Medicaid health care coverage to nearly a half-million more Michiganians moves to the Senate this week, where its chances for passage as of Monday remained a tossup.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Michigan, US News, US Governors

9 hrs ago | Detroit Free Press

Michigan can learn from Israel's entrepreneurial spirit, Snyder says

Michigan can learn from the entrepreneurial culture of Israel, where people are generally more willing to take risks with ideas and investments, Gov. Rick Snyder said in an interview today from the Middle East country.

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Related Topix: Israel, Michigan, World News, Middle East, US Governors, Detroit, MI

10 hrs ago | Detroit Free Press

Editorial: Hands off money for DIA, zoo -- but cities need help, too

Voter-approved tax money to support the Detroit Zoo and the Detroit Institute of Arts is safe again, or so it seems.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Michigan, Dearborn, MI, Dearborn Heights, MI, Opinion

14 hrs ago | Model D

Opinion: Heart of Midtown threatened by widening of I-94

The expressway, which already provides a substantial barrier to economic development in New Center, would be widened from six lanes to 10. In addition, a two-lane continuous service drive would be added in each direction.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Oakland County, MI, US Governors, Opinion

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Examiner.com

City of Detroit prohibited from selling artwork to pay off debt

The City of Detroit will not be allowed to sell valuable artwork in order to dig itself out of debt , as decided by the Michigan state Attorney General, Bill Schuette in an official opinion released Thursday, June 6, 2013.

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On Wall Street

Detroit Peddles Its Municipal Assets to Avoid Record Bankruptcy

Detroit is suspending payments on $2 billion of unsecured debt, marketing parking garages and telling retirees to rely on President Barack Obama 's health-care law to avoid a record municipal bankruptcy.

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Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Marketing, Healthcare Law, Law, Pension, Personal Finance, US Governors

The State News

Snyder inks budget with higher ed funding boost

It's a steady upward trend: climbing, climbing. That gradual, but merciless climbing.

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Detroit Free Press

Arizona voter registration rules go too far, Supreme Court says

The Supreme Court ruled handily today that Arizona cannot add to federal voter registration requirements by demanding proof of citizenship.

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Related Topix: Arizona, US News, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Immigration Reform, US Governors

WFNT-AM Burton

Governor Snyder Leads Delegation to Israel

Governor Rick Snyder is leading a delegation of state officials and business leaders on a nine-day investment mission to Israel in hopes of increasing bilateral trade and investments, academic cooperation and strengthening Michigan's relationship with the state of Israel.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Travel, Israel Travel, Middle East Travel, US Governors, Shimon Peres

Lansing State Journal

Editorial: Officials, get tough on gas prices

Instead of Gov. Rick Snyder or state Attorney General Bill Schuette, Democratic lawmakers are the ones who sounded the alarm.

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Related Topix: Michigan, US Governors, US News, Opinion

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Detroit Free Press

Bills, new agency to make life easier for Michigan's veterans

'I've seen guys try to navigate the system to get what they rightfully deserve, and they didn't get it before they died,' said Randy Soubliere, commander of VFW Post 4357 in Brighton and a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War.

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Related Topix: Michigan, US Military, US Navy, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Governors

Detroit Free Press

Detroit Zoo and DIA could still get diverted tax money

The DIA is partially funded by a millage voters in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties approved last summer.

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Related Topix: Royal Oak, MI, Detroit, MI, US Governors, Wayne County, MI

Bloomberg

Detroit Recovery Plan Threatens Underpinnings of Muni Market

Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's plan to suspend payments on $2 billion of Detroit's debt threatens a basic tenet of the $3.7 trillion municipal market: that states and cities will raise taxes as high as needed to avoid default.

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Related Topix: Michigan, US Governors, Financial Markets, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Daily Kos

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: From Detroit to Honduras and Back: Capitalists Immigrate To Usurp Rights.

In Michigan, Republican Governor Rick Snyder has appointed an "emergency manager" to take over the city of Detroit, with the powers to over-ride the votes of local citizens and the decisions and contracts made by their locally elected mayor and city council.

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Lansing State Journal

Tom Watkins: The Tea Party goes sour on Snyder

Obviously, the tea party has way too much lemon in their tea. Isn't it great? The tea party is setting out to help elect Mark Schauer, a Democrat, for governor.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Tea Party, US News, Tea Party, US Politics, Representative Mark Schauer, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Tea, Drink, US Governors

Observer & Eccentric

Township wins TIFA battle, loses war

Plymouth Township is among nine Wayne County communities and their tax-increment financing authorities -- mostly downtown development authorities and brownfield authorities -- that were handed both a court victory and a legislative defeat last week in a fight over "recaptured" tax money.

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Observer & Eccentric

Webb to host Veterans Seminar

Commissioner Webb's 2nd Annual Veterans, Families and Caretakers Event will be held on Tuesday, June 18, from 6-8 p.m. at the VFW Post 7546 , 6828 Waverly, in Dearborn Heights.

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Related Topix: Wayne County, MI, Dearborn Heights, MI, US Governors

MLive.com

Tim Skubick: Gov. Rick Snyder stands up to Tea Party; time will tell if that matters

Since the Tea Party is such an amorphous group with no political center of gravity, it's hard to get your arms around how much of the group's support Gov. Rick Snyder had the first time he ran.

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Detroit Free Press

What happens when the GOP controls all levels of state government

When the four leaders of Michigan's Legislature told a Mackinac Island audience two weeks ago that they actually get along better than most people think, they definitely were talking personalities and not politics.

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