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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Lenawee Doesn't Deserve This.

Lenawee County’s jobless rate leaped to 11.2 percent in July, the county’s highest rate since 1991. The statewide jobless rate is 9.1 percent.

The jump into double-digit unemployment last month resulted from annual temporary layoffs in the auto industry being combined with a slow construction season and weakness in the leisure and retail business climate, said a state government analyst. Lenawee County’s jobless rate was 9.5 percent jobless in June. All counties in Michigan saw an increase in unemployment in July.

Lenawee County was particularly hard hit, moving from 60th place in employment among Michigan’s 83 counties in June to 65th place in July. Lenawee County’s 11.2 percent jobless rate is the county’s highest since it reached 12.7 percent in March 1991

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The good people of Lenawee don't deserve this.

If there were alternative businesses in Michigan they could trade up on careers.

But alas Michigan has kowtowed to the auto industry for so long we are crippled by it's inevitable disappearance.

We have virtually no public transportation, no taxi service, no train service, no subway...that's what the auto industry has brought to Michigan, exclusion of all possible competing business models.



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Jennifer Granholm - Excuse Tool


Dems tap Granholm for alternative energy session

Gov. Jennifer Granholm will play a role in the Democratic National Convention in Denver after all: She'll moderate a town hall meeting Tuesday night on alternative energy, one of her favorite topics.

The governor was contacted late Thursday by the Barack Obama campaign about leading the energy discussion, and unveiled the plans at a news conference Friday.

"Michigan was selected for that because we have been focused on alternative and renewable energy," said Granholm.

Details of the energy session -- time, place, participants -- haven't been determined, the governor's office said.

Granholm has been pushing an energy package that includes a mandate that 10 percent of the state's electricity be generated by renewable sources by 2015. But the legislation hasn't passed the Senate. She has said the location of alternative energy businesses here depends on passage of the bills.

She blamed Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, for blocking the measure.

"Who's holding this back? It's one man. His name is Mike Bishop," Granholm said. "We got a bipartisan package out of the House."

Matt Marsden, spokesman for Bishop, said the senator has been available all summer to work out a compromise on the energy package.

"He hasn't heard from the governor since June," Marsden said. "It's the governor's failure to step up and lead that's the problem here despite what she says to her buddies in Denver."

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The governor again declined to say whether she would like Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to attend the convention -- he, like she, is a super delegate by virtue of his high standing in the party -- and refused to field any questions about the mayor's legal problems or the Sept. 3 removal hearing in Detroit that Granholm will conduct.

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I agree with Matt.


I don't know about all this jazz, I haven't seen Granholm do one thing positive for the state during her whole tenure...now she is going to blame someone else...try and get everyone on the "party card"

She can't even decide to dethrone Kwami Kilpatrick when the whole state cries out for it.

What alternative energies?

Farts?

We have jack squat for alternative energy policy, progress or projects in this state who is she trying to kid?

Oh yeah....you and I.



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