Comments on: Partisan Pileup: Special Report http://absolutemichigan.com/business/partisan-pileup-special-report/ All Michigan, All the Time Fri, 17 May 2013 11:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cathleen http://absolutemichigan.com/business/partisan-pileup-special-report/#comment-14658 Cathleen Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:34:48 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/business/partisan-pileup-special-report/#comment-14658 That picture is soooo fitting.

Thanks for the laugh.

And you are right- this can’t look good to the outside world, especially Wall Street and any business thinking of coming here.

Grumble.

]]> By: farlane http://absolutemichigan.com/business/partisan-pileup-special-report/#comment-14412 farlane Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:34:14 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/business/partisan-pileup-special-report/#comment-14412 One of the most frustrating things about this whole budget mess is how it plays in the wider media. Consider this headline from my news feed:

Michigan Proposes Education Cuts
WNDU-TV – South Bend,IN,USA
Cuts could be on the way to Michigan schools to help close a 942-million dollar budget deficit. The Senate voted 20-to-18 to cut school spending by …

The person who knows little about Michigan other than -
a) It’s cold.
b) The economy is bad.
and
c) Detroit is like Iraq
- can now add the happy fact that we are cutting education.

What I believe both sides of this squabble are failing to see is that the person who knows little about Michigan doesn’t know that we are a lovely state with great people. They just know the headlines.

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