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June 7, 2013: State Budget / Kevyn Orr & Detroit / Whole Foods

Topics of Discussion: Wayne County Jail State Budget Kevyn Orr / Creditors of Detroit John Dingell’s 57 years of service Henry Payne, editorial cartoonist for the Detroit News steps in for Nolan Finley this week on MIWeek. The MiWeek panel discuss the new Wayne County Jail which is running over budget, how the money in [...]

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May 31: MiWeek Team at the Mackinac Policy Conference

This week the MiWeek team headed to Mackinac for the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference.  1500 business leaders, politicians and educators came together to talk about the future of Michigan. Christy McDonald is the host for the conference coverage, and MiWeek contributors Nolan Finley and Stephen Henderson were around to analyze the events of [...]

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May 23, 2013: Mackinac Policy Conference / Tax Surplus / IRS Scandal

The MiWeek panel dissects the upcoming Mackinac Conference by talking with Sandy Baruah, President and CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber. The panel discusses the extra tax revenue budget, and the IRS scandal plaguing Washington. DPTV will be covering the Mackinac Conference next week. Topics of Discussion: •    Mackinac Policy Conference •    Surplus tax revenue [...]

Stephen Henderson Editorial Page Editor The Detroit Free Press
  • Stephen Henderson: A better future for Detroiters
    Services and residents will come first, according to the restructuring plan unveiled Friday by Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr. And at least for now, he'll stop making debt payments. And he'll ask workers and retirees - who, to be fair, have already sacrificed a fair amount - to give even more in the name of re-prioritizing the city's denizens. That's a fundamental change in the way government in Detroit has been managed for many decades, and it's the strongest reason Detroiters should be lining up in support of Orr's plan.
  • Stephen Henderson: Orr can give city a clean slate - but we must build on it
    Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr's work, if it's successful, will reset the template for us - get the banks off our backs and get services working for the people who live here. But a healthy city is so much more than that.
  • Stephen Henderson: Orr can give city a clean slate - but we must build on it
    Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr's work, if it's successful, will reset the template for us - get the banks off our backs and get services working for the people who live here. But a healthy city is so much more than that.
  • Stephen Henderson: Someone has to lead Michigan's schools away from the financial brink
    Increasingly, the state's funding formula for schools, combined with the heavy overhead of many districts and ballooning legacy costs, is being outed as inadequate to maintain the system as is. And it's hitting urban and suburban districts alike. Michigan needs someone - like Gov. Rick Snyder - to drive the change we need for public school finance. We need someone who can convene stakeholders around the problem, produce a set of solutions and push to get them enacted.
Nolan Finley Editorial Page Editor The Detroit News
  • Column: In Detroit, searching for Kwame
    Where's Kwame K? No, not that one. We know that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is locked securely away in Milan prison awaiting sentencing on his federal corruption conviction.
  • Obama breaks trust in government
    The Obama administration sees no limit on its presidential powers. It bends the Constitution to get and do what it wants. So why wouldn't we worry that it might collude with its Silicon Valley sycophants to gather embarrassing tidbits on its opposition?
  • Column: Let's get rid of the IRS
    Why would anyone give a federal agency caught in an outrageous abuse of its considerable power even more authority to meddle in the lives of Americans?
  • Nolan Finley: Finley: Political gentleman a straight shooter in Congress and out
    John Dingell points to the out-sized antlers covering a wall of his Dearborn congressional office. "Those are from the biggest elk I ever shot," he says, and then goes on to recount the long-ago hunt in riveting detail.