The People’s News 8/23

Here are today’s top Michi­gan news stories…

MPRN: CMU fac­ulty ordered back to work — The judge issued the tem­po­rary restrain­ing order against the CMU Fac­ulty Asso­ci­a­tion less than 24 hours after tenured and tenure-track pro­fes­sors walked off the job… In a writ­ten state­ment, Fac­ulty Asso­ci­a­tion Pres­i­dent Laura Frey says pro­fes­sors will fol­low the order, and return to work tomor­row morning.

MLIVE COLUMN: Mem­bers of Con­gress skip­ping town hall meet­ings this sum­mer: What are they afraid of? — Mem­bers of Con­gress just aren’t into their con­stituents. About 60 per­cent of law­mak­ers aren’t both­er­ing to hold free town halls open to the pub­lic this sum­mer, accord­ing to a sur­vey by the non­par­ti­san group No Labels… So mem­bers of Con­gress aren’t exactly pro­files in courage. They take unpop­u­lar votes and don’t want to face the music from the peo­ple who elect them. That may be a safe polit­i­cal strat­egy. But it’s really ter­ri­ble for democracy.

MLIVE: Brian Cal­ley Inter­view: On NITC leg­is­la­tion, money’s impact on pol­i­tics and how this project par­al­lels the first Blue Water Bridge — Last week, in advance of the state legislature’s fall ses­sion, MLive sat down with with Lt. Gov. Cal­ley to dis­cuss the NITC’s prospects in Lansing.

FREE PRESS: Schools of Choice bill com­ing as foes gear up for fight — Oppo­si­tion is strong in the heav­ily Repub­li­can Grosse Pointes. In heav­ily Demo­c­ra­tic Detroit, three leg­is­la­tors have said they are opposed to state-mandated Schools of Choice because, they said, it will neg­a­tively impact Detroit Pub­lic Schools.

DETROIT NEWS: Sny­der to tout state in China; Granholm rep defends her mis­sion record — Sny­der is to be accom­pa­nied by MEDC CEO Mike Finney, Agri­cul­ture Direc­tor Keith Creagh and four eco­nomic devel­op­ment offi­cials, MEDC spokesman Mike Shore said. He could not pro­vide a cost esti­mate for the trip, but said no gen­eral fund money would be used. Air­fare will be paid by the Michi­gan Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Foun­da­tion, sup­ported by dona­tions, and other costs will be paid by the group’s cor­po­rate funds, most of which come from a tax on Amer­i­can Indian casi­nos, he said.

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