Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 11 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 7:51 pm: | |
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. |
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 557 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:00 pm: | |
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) |
Mbr Member Username: Mbr
Post Number: 282 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:12 pm: | |
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 |
Sharmaal Member Username: Sharmaal
Post Number: 1274 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:44 pm: | |
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. |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 12 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 8:54 pm: | |
My bad, thanks for the clarity. |
Eastsiderules Member Username: Eastsiderules
Post Number: 1 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:09 pm: | |
your bad? where the heck did you hear/read that crap? |
Figebornu Member Username: Figebornu
Post Number: 14 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:16 pm: | |
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). |
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1393 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:17 pm: | |
http://www.detroitchamber.com/ events/index.asp?rcid=1656&cid =20 |
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2619 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 9:31 pm: | |
I think what she says will be of more importance than where she says it. |
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 1429 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 10:00 pm: | |
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. |
Tkshreve Member Username: Tkshreve
Post Number: 263 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 11:46 pm: | |
Mikeg....... good post. |
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 698 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 2:41 am: | |
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'. |
Eastsiderules Member Username: Eastsiderules
Post Number: 3 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 3:12 am: | |
Jenny may not be the best, but we could have worse.. How? |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 4966 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 6:48 am: | |
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. |
Mcp001 Member Username: Mcp001
Post Number: 3221 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 7:20 am: | |
Didn't she try that idea last year? If memory serves, it didn't get too much traction back then, either. |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 7054 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 8:06 am: | |
YAY! GRANHOLM! Tell the state that are slowing recovering from a recession. |
Crew Member Username: Crew
Post Number: 1398 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 8:17 am: | |
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. |
Novine Member Username: Novine
Post Number: 397 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 12:43 pm: | |
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. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 4835 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:10 pm: | |
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. |
Dustin89 Member Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 195 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 1:48 pm: | |
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! |
Ferntruth Member Username: Ferntruth
Post Number: 315 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 12:50 pm: | |
"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? |