Judge baffled by support for Metro Detroit teacher convicted of sex crimes against students | MLive.com
A judge sentenced a substitute music teacher to five years in prison for having sex with a 17-year-old student and exchanging lewd cellphone photos and video with two other girls, and she lambasted his many supporters, saying they apparently didn't know the extent of his misdeeds.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Muskegon County Republican Executive Committee to discuss prevailing wage at a free public event on Monday night
Muskegon County Republican Executive Committee to discuss prevailing wage at a free public event on Monday night | MLive.com
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alaskanwolverine
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alaskanwolverine
As a former member of the Muskegon County Republican Executive Committee, I'm glad to see them being active and reaching out publicly to address the pertinent issues of the day. I was not a popular member of the committee due to my true conservatism in economic and social issues. Sounds like the committee is on the right track now.
alaskanwolverine, Please join us Monday night. You will be welcomed now.
Editorial: Spirited mayor's race is just what Muskegon needs
Editorial: Spirited mayor's race is just what Muskegon needs | MLive.com#incart_river
With the election scheduled in November, Muskegon residents will have 10 months to take a hard look at who we say we are and what we want be as a community.
They will be able to dissect the visions presented by the candidates and chose a leader.
And they will have time to figure out how to join forces behind the new leader to turn this community into the city they see when they defend it against the bashers.
Let's begin the discussion today.
With the election scheduled in November, Muskegon residents will have 10 months to take a hard look at who we say we are and what we want be as a community.
They will be able to dissect the visions presented by the candidates and chose a leader.
And they will have time to figure out how to join forces behind the new leader to turn this community into the city they see when they defend it against the bashers.
Let's begin the discussion today.
Truancy plan will work with families, not against them, officials say in live chat
Truancy plan will work with families, not against them, officials say in live chat | MLive.com
The plan calls for schools to look at students once they have five absences, whether they are excused or not.
School personnel will decide whether the absences are cause for concern and those that are will continue to be monitored.
If a student being monitored is absent four more times, they will be referred to the prosecutor’s office, which will explain to the student’s family they could lose welfare benefits if the absences continue.
The plan calls for schools to look at students once they have five absences, whether they are excused or not.
School personnel will decide whether the absences are cause for concern and those that are will continue to be monitored.
If a student being monitored is absent four more times, they will be referred to the prosecutor’s office, which will explain to the student’s family they could lose welfare benefits if the absences continue.
Muskegon County Republican Executive Committee to discuss prevailing wage at a free public event on Monday night
Muskegon County Republican Executive Committee to discuss prevailing wage at a free public event on Monday night | MLive.com#incart_river
The federal government has its own prevailing wage laws, butMonday night's meeting will likely focus on the Muskegon County's rules, whichare similar.
Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy at the MackinacCenter for Public Policy, will be a featured speaker.
The federal government has its own prevailing wage laws, butMonday night's meeting will likely focus on the Muskegon County's rules, whichare similar.
Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy at the MackinacCenter for Public Policy, will be a featured speaker.
GOP Establishment Standing in Way of Prevailing Wage Reform
GOP Establishment Standing in Way of Prevailing Wage Reform [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
“I absolutely won’t support increasing any fees or taxes (for road improvements) as long as we have prevailing wage in Michigan,” he said recently at an Independent Tea Party Patriots Meeting in Clarkston.
“I absolutely won’t support increasing any fees or taxes (for road improvements) as long as we have prevailing wage in Michigan,” he said recently at an Independent Tea Party Patriots Meeting in Clarkston.
60,000 patients put on death pathway without being told
60,000 patients put on death pathway without being told but minister still says controversial end-of-life plan is 'fantastic'
Pathway involves the sick being sedated and usually denied nutritionand fluids
Families kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said pathway was a 'fantastic step forward'
Anti-euthanasia group said: ‘The Pathway is designed to finish people off double quick'
Pathway involves the sick being sedated and usually denied nutritionand fluids
Families kept in the dark when doctors withdraw lifesaving treatment
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said pathway was a 'fantastic step forward'
Anti-euthanasia group said: ‘The Pathway is designed to finish people off double quick'
Sandy Relief Dwarfs Past Aid Packages
Sandy Relief Dwarfs Past Aid Packages
The measure bill includes $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in Alaska, Mississippi and the Northeast, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires.
....Critics are taking the sharpest aim at $12.1 billion in the amendment for Department of Housing and Urban Development emergency block grants.
Any state struck by a federally declared major disaster in 2011, 2012 or this year would qualify for the grants, and that's just about all the states, said Stephen Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group.
Only South Carolina, Arizona and Michigan would not qualify, he said.
The measure bill includes $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in Alaska, Mississippi and the Northeast, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires.
....Critics are taking the sharpest aim at $12.1 billion in the amendment for Department of Housing and Urban Development emergency block grants.
Any state struck by a federally declared major disaster in 2011, 2012 or this year would qualify for the grants, and that's just about all the states, said Stephen Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group.
Only South Carolina, Arizona and Michigan would not qualify, he said.
Detroit Water’s security chief Barnett Jones resigns 2nd job in Flint amid questions
Detroit Water’s security chief Barnett Jones resigns 2nd job in Flint amid questions | Michigan news | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Flint’s administrator of public safety resigned this morning after the Free Press raised questions about how he could work there while also working as the head of security for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Barnett Jones, a longtime lawman in southeast Michigan, was earning $273,750 at the two jobs, which are almost 70 miles apart.
He had been working both since May.
Flint’s administrator of public safety resigned this morning after the Free Press raised questions about how he could work there while also working as the head of security for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
Barnett Jones, a longtime lawman in southeast Michigan, was earning $273,750 at the two jobs, which are almost 70 miles apart.
He had been working both since May.
Revealed: Civil servant secretly working two full time public jobs, 70 miles apart - netting a salary higher than the Vice President's
Revealed: Civil servant secretly working two full time public jobs, 70 miles apart - netting a salary higher than the Vice President's | Mail Online
Flint City Administrator, Michael Brown, told the Press he wasn't aware of Jones' other role.
'We didn’t know that he was working at Detroit water and sewer,' Brown said. 'I was surprised and to be honest, disappointed'.
Jones' salary broke down as $135,000 a year from Flint and $138,750 from Detroit.
It gave him a total salary higher than a senator, Supreme Court judge or even Vice President Joe Biden.
Jones told the Free Press on Wednesday that he was doing justice to both jobs, when the newspaper asked him if he could juggle the two.
'Absolutely,' Jones said.
'There are some days I go to both, some days I go to one.
Sometimes I leave out at 8, 9, 10 o’clock at night, Saturdays.
I’m a workaholic.'
Flint City Administrator, Michael Brown, told the Press he wasn't aware of Jones' other role.
'We didn’t know that he was working at Detroit water and sewer,' Brown said. 'I was surprised and to be honest, disappointed'.
Jones' salary broke down as $135,000 a year from Flint and $138,750 from Detroit.
It gave him a total salary higher than a senator, Supreme Court judge or even Vice President Joe Biden.
Jones told the Free Press on Wednesday that he was doing justice to both jobs, when the newspaper asked him if he could juggle the two.
'Absolutely,' Jones said.
'There are some days I go to both, some days I go to one.
Sometimes I leave out at 8, 9, 10 o’clock at night, Saturdays.
I’m a workaholic.'
Sunspot unleashes intense solar flare
Sunspot unleashes intense solar flare - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News
"AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth," the website reported.
"Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.
This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet."
The sun is in an active phase of its current 11-year weather cycle, which scientists call Solar Cycle 24. The sun's activity cycle is expected to reach its peak (or "solar maximum") in 2013, astronomers have said.
The most powerful solar flares, X-class flares, have the most significant effect on Earth.
They can cause long-lasting radiation storms in our planet's upper atmosphere and trigger radio blackouts.
Medium-size M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts in the polar regions and occasional minor radiation storms.
C-class flares, the weakest in scientists' three-tiered classification system, have few noticeable consequences.
"AR1654 is getting bigger as it turns toward Earth," the website reported.
"Not only is the chance of flares increasing, but also the chance of an Earth-directed eruption.
This could be the sunspot that breaks the recent lengthy spell of calm space weather around our planet."
The sun is in an active phase of its current 11-year weather cycle, which scientists call Solar Cycle 24. The sun's activity cycle is expected to reach its peak (or "solar maximum") in 2013, astronomers have said.
The most powerful solar flares, X-class flares, have the most significant effect on Earth.
They can cause long-lasting radiation storms in our planet's upper atmosphere and trigger radio blackouts.
Medium-size M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts in the polar regions and occasional minor radiation storms.
C-class flares, the weakest in scientists' three-tiered classification system, have few noticeable consequences.
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