Bernero Forms 'Financial Health Team' for Review, Recommendations
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero wants more 'blue ribbon' input on the city's shaky financial future.
View ArticleCiting "Perfect Storm," Panel Will Explore Lansing Revenue Overhaul
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero calls it his "most serious and important endeavor." He is urging a new 'Financial Health Team' to explore whether the time has come for a new model of city finance.
View ArticleSnyder, Treasurer: Review Should Spur Detroit To Move Quickly To Fix Finances
Governor Rick Snyder says the Detroit mayor and city council are operating under some tight deadlines if they want to avoid a state takeover. A formal state Treasury review of the city’s finances is...
View ArticleLansing police respond to budget cut pressure
Police and firefighters in the city of Lansing are under pressure to make concessions to improve the city’s short and long-term budget woes. Last week, a long-awaited report from the city’s blue...
View ArticleLansing's Financial Empowerment Center one of five in nation
In January, the city of Lansing announced that the city had been awarded a $1.5 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant to establish a Financial Empowerment Center. Lansing’s center opened yesterday.
View ArticleShiawassee County gets its first business incubator
Start up companies between the Lansing and Flint metro areas have a new resource to help them get off the ground. Baker College in Owosso is the site of a new business incubator known as the “REV”...
View ArticleMore freedom or less democracy? Sorting out ramifications of the McCutcheon...
The U.S. Supreme Court last week came out with another controversial ruling on our nation’s campaign finance laws.In the case McCutcheon versus the FEC, the Supreme Court struck down the limits on the...
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