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Figebornu
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 7:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Please, tell me it ain't so. The Governor is giving her State of the State speech at the MGM Casino? If so this gives a poor and crazy message that our state has gone mad.
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Rocket_city
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

While I'm willing to look past it, I understand completely why it should not be located there. Why can't it be in Lansing where it belongs? Or how about a neighborhood city hall/center in one of Detroit's neighborhoods?

(Message edited by Rocket City on January 27, 2008)
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Mbr
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This isn't true. What on earth made you think she was giving it at MGM and not the State Capitol where it is always given?

From her radio address:

"Hello. This is Governor Jennifer Granholm. In just a few days, I'll step to a podium in the State Capitol and deliver my sixth State of the State address."

http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0, 1607,7-168--174354--,00.html
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Sharmaal
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

State of the State for the Detroit Regions Business Community. 7:30-10 a.m. Jan. 31.

Detroit Regional Chamber and AT&T. Gov. Jennifer Granholm will deliver her State of the State message live to the business community, immediately following her address to the House and Senate. After her speech, attendees will have an opportunity to participate in a moderated Q&A session with the governor.


MGM Grand Detroit, Detroit. $35 for chamber members Business Builder and above; $50 for Venture level members. Contact: Wendy Nodge, (313) 596-0336.
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Figebornu
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My bad, thanks for the clarity.
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Eastsiderules
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

your bad? where the heck did you hear/read that crap?
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Figebornu
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I did read something to the effect that the Governor was having her State of the State at the MGM, but as Sharmaal has pointed out, it is a State of the State for the Detroit Regions Business Community which Sharmaal writes "immediately following her address to the House and Senate." My question now is how can she get to Detroit from Lansing immediately?

Even still, I don't think the casinos should be used this way. They (the casinos) are a bad mark on any community - just ask the thousands who lose their paychecks weekly leaving their families empty handed (I know too many of these people who have become literal slaves to these casinos).
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Viziondetroit
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

http://www.detroitchamber.com/ events/index.asp?rcid=1656&cid =20
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Ray1936
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think what she says will be of more importance than where she says it.
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Mikeg
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 10:00 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think what she DOES is far more important than what she says and where she says it.

We all know what the real State of the State is - we are living it - while she gets chauffeured between meetings, speeches and places like Lansing, Detroit and Metro Airport. Instead, we will hear that the State of the State is such that additional government "programs" (read "tax dollars") are needed to turn the ship of state around.

I'm still waiting for some shred of evidence that the boast she made two years ago - "In five years, you’re going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan’s transformed economy" - was nothing more than just election-year rhetoric.

As far as I am concerned, she can give her speech from one of the ladies rooms at the Edward McNamara Terminal.
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Tkshreve
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 11:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mikeg....... good post.
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Andylinn
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:41 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i stand by my vote against DeVos. I'm STILL glad we don't have him. Jenny may not be the best, but we could have worse... Quit the gripin'.
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Eastsiderules
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 3:12 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Jenny may not be the best, but we could have worse..

How?
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Livernoisyard
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 6:48 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

As last year, the mole will try selling Michigan on keeping incorrigible high-school dropouts in "school" until age 18. Another obvious ploy to pay off her #2 election-campaign "donors"--the teachers' unions.

Alternative high schools in place already had a series of bad press stories last year, BTW, to nobody's surprise.
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Mcp001
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 7:20 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Didn't she try that idea last year?

If memory serves, it didn't get too much traction back then, either.
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Danny
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 8:06 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

YAY! GRANHOLM!

Tell the state that are slowing recovering from a recession.
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Crew
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 8:17 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm not sure what they mean by "immediately following." The State of the State address is on Tuesday and this speach is on Thursday morning.
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Novine
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 12:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Why is anyone surprised by the state of the state's economy? Name one other state that has gone through the upheavals and downsizing that this state has with the downsizing in the automotive industry and its suppliers. If any other state had been through the same, they would be in the same condition our state is in. The state is growing jobs, here are some examples:

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20080127/BUSINES S06/801270622/1019/BUSINESS&th eme=BUILDINGABUSINESS012008

but those areas of growth can't overcome what's happening in the auto industry. Those who pretend that any amount of government tinkering with the economy could have changed those facts are delusional.
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Johnlodge
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

South Carolina knows a thing or two about too many eggs in one basket.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s tory/story.php?storyId=1820279 7

Just replace South Carolina with Michigan, Lancaster County with Detroit, and Textiles with Automotive.
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Dustin89
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i stand by my vote against DeVos. I'm STILL glad we don't have him. Jenny may not be the best, but we could have worse... Quit the gripin'.

Right on andylinn!
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Ferntruth
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Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 12:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"As last year, the mole will try selling Michigan on keeping incorrigible high-school dropouts in "school" until age 18. Another obvious ploy to pay off her #2 election-campaign "donors"--the teachers' unions."

Even if this is true (which I doubt). Why would raising the dropout age to 18 be a bad thing?

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