Friday's Wall Street Journal has a piece by Eric Felten on a "dark skies" movement seeking to define outdoor lighting as a form of "pollution," and pass laws to boss people around regarding their choice about how to light up their own property. Fortunately, Michigan's political class is immune to such misguided notions.

Oh, wait a minute . . .

2004 Senate Bill 1250 (Create light pollution study board )

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Ironically, a special tax break offered by the State of Michigan to a for-profit arm of the SEIU labor union was offered in part to address the union's complaint that it is at a disadvantage due to Michigan's "high labor costs," compared to two other states SEIU was supposedly considering (one of them with a "Right to Work" law reviled by the union). This according to a document obtained by Detroit News business writer Daniel Howes (State tax credit to labor union is baffling, November 20). 

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The Michigan Economic Growth Authority is a discriminatory tax credit program sold as a way for Michigan government to "create or retain" jobs here. ...more and comments

Paul Kersey discusses MEDC-SEIU deal on Frank Beckmann's show. ...more and comments

At a press conference Tuesday announcing several new recipients of discriminatory state tax breaks, Gov. Jennifer Granholm repeated a number of false or misleading statements about this state government's policy of picking winners and losers, and its effects as a substitute for genuine labor, regulatory and tax law reforms.

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