Jennifer Granholm
Source: www.wxyz.com
Editorial Director Chuck Stokes sits down with Governor Granholm to get straight talk on the state budget cuts.
Devon
Devon
There is hope, finally a government official who knows what they are doing. This message should be passed on to the treasurers of all Mi school districts. WB's treasurer used all the school aid/stimulus money in this year, and is facing budget deficit now and, even larger one next year.

You go Granholm!!!!
5 hours ago
Susan
Susan
whatever happened to all the money that is supposed to come from the lottery to fund schools?? Who is dipping into that??? I agree with Mike Haydon.....blah...blah....blah. Politicians are all the same with their own agendas.
43 minutes ago
Jennifer Granholm
Source: michiganmessenger.com
DETROIT — Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced that “millions of dollars going to hundreds of fellowships” would soon bolster the ranks of Michigan’s public school math and science teachers courtesy of a $16.7 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Pat Sarchet
Pat Sarchet
I wish California had a GOV like Granholm, sigh...
Yesterday at 8:25am
Devon
Devon
You go Granholm, it will be a sad day across Michigan when your second term is up.
Yesterday at 9:55am
Grace Wojcik
Grace Wojcik
Thank you Gov. Granholm for all you do for MI!

@ Debbie, instead of passive aggressively complaining about the Gov on her fan page maybe organize programs to accomplish the goals you don't think she's doing enough work on.
Yesterday at 5:04pm
Jennifer Granholm
In this week’s radio address, Governor Granholm announces that Michigan has been chosen for a new teaching fellowship program that will benefit almost 20,000 Michigan public school students in high-need schools. Hello, this is Governor Jennifer Granholm. ...
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm
Twenty-first century jobs require 21st century minds. If Michigan is to compete in the global economy, all our children have to have world-class education and skills. That’s why the news of Michigan being chosen for a new teaching fellowship program is so exciting. This program is going to train 240 new math and scie...nce teachers to teach in middle and high schools that desperately need teachers in these subjects – math and science. Over a period of five years, almost 20,000 Michigan public school students will receive high-quality education in science, technology, engineering and math from these new teachers. This statewide teaching fellowship program is made possible by a $16.7 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The result is the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship. Michigan is now one of only three states – the others being Indiana and Ohio – who have been chosen for this teaching fellowship.Read More

Source: www.michigan.gov
Todd
Todd
Full funding for local schools will also help. Having well-trained teachers in classes of 35 kids won't get us very far. We need a progressive income tax system. Now.
Fri at 10:50am
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm These state grants will help us grow new jobs and diversify our state's economy. The business expansions in these companies in the alternative energy and automotive industries will create almost 700 new jobs in Michigan and contribute to our economic diversification efforts.

Source: www.mlive.com
Three companies undergoing expansions in Lapeer and Manistee will split $1.5 million in Michigan transportation grants that will leverage more than $48 million in private industry investment, state officials said Thursday.
Chuck Osborn
Chuck Osborn
Keep bringing new jobs to Michigan
Fri at 12:08pm
Andrew Volk
Andrew Volk
Anything that enables Michigan to produce something makes me happy. Keep it coming!
Fri at 12:18pm
Rodney Hampton
Rodney Hampton
Every little bit helps.
Fri at 4:32pm
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm
To stand up for our schools, lawmakers of both parties will need to stand up to special interests, like the tobacco lobby and the petroleum lobby. Legislators will need to decide what's more important. Is maintaining a double tax exemption for oil and gas producers more important than funding our schools? Is protecting... tobacco companies more important than protecting our children's education?Across our state, there are tens of thousands of parents, educators and other concerned citizens who correctly see this school finance crisis as a threat to our children. It also is a threat to the kind of state we want to build in Michigan -- a state with a diverse economy, 21st-century jobs and the good education that will bring those jobs to Michigan.Every economist agrees: Education is fundamental to Michigan's economic rebirth, especially now. We cannot gut the funding to this crucial foundation for Michigan's future.Read More

Source: www.detnews.com
Last week when I signed the state budget into law, I made it clear that it is not the budget Michigan needs. It is a budget that cuts our most pressing priorities: educating our children and helping them pay for a college education; maintaining health care for seniors, children and people with disab...
Jennifer Granholm
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Chris Brown
Chris Brown
How many windmills does it take to power a state the size of MI? What happens when the wind does not blow? No such thing as clean coal? I would have to disagree. Energy plants are doing improvements on their current plants to greatly decrease emissions, and new plants would be much more efficient yet.

Nuclear power would be great as well, do... Read More you not trust the systems that are in place to protect nuclear facilities?

Wind is a great power to harness, but it cannot be the only source of power, and currently is not helping MI on a great scale, whereas a turbine plant, fired by coal, natural gas, or nuclear, would improve our current status.
Thu at 2:11pm
James Grant
James Grant
@ CB, how many of them actually want to build latest technology coal-fired plants here in MI? Btw, I also think the term "clean coal" is a misnomer.
Fri at 1:47pm
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm “In Michigan, we’re turning the so-called rust belt into a green belt of clean energy manufacturing," Granholm said.
"We’ve got a robust and growing wind supply chain of more than 70 companies in Michigan already, doing hundreds of millions of dollars in business annually.”

Source: www.mlive.com
Gov. Jennifer Granholm helped kick off a conference on small and community wind and supply chain issues this morning at Cobo Center in Detroit.
Robynn James
Robynn James
Gov. Granholm,

Wood burning plants such as those being sold to Michigan as "biomass" emit more greenhouse gasses than coal while compounding the damage w accellerated logging and deforestation. Please take a stand against so-called biomass burning plants and be vigilant for greenwashing in your efforts to revitalize our economy.
November 4 at 11:51am
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm Preparing our workforce for the 21st century economy is crucial for Michigan’s economic turnaround. Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind program has become a national model for workforce policy. We must continue to innovate and provide Michigan’s citizens every chance to succeed, and that’s why I am creating the position of chief workforce officer.

Source: www.mlive.com
Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday named Andy Levin as the state's chief workforce officer, a position from which he will help oversee efforts to streamline state government service and employment levels.
Jonathan Morley
Jonathan Morley
The Promise would help to prepare an educated workforce.
November 4 at 9:39am
Wil Antonides
Wil Antonides
I hope this guy streamlines the NWLB program - it's a bureaucratic nightmare!
November 4 at 10:07am
Elwin McKellar
Elwin McKellar
I pray he does more than ride the No Worker (under 55) Left Behind program. Some of us don't need re-training, but a way to convince employers to hire anyone over 55 years of age. How about a "Over 55 and Still Very Much Alive" program?
November 4 at 10:44am
Jennifer Granholm
Source: www.detnews.com
The 2009 Small and Community Wind Conference, which began Tuesday and runs through Thursday, is designed for people looking to get involved in small and community wind power -- wind energy not associated with private utilities or large-scale wind farms that feed the nation's electricity grid. This i...
Herman D. Lawson
Herman D. Lawson
You should do this throughout the State, Not everyone can go to Cobo Hall, and with all the Crime in Detroit who would want to take a Chance? You should have a Seminar at SWMichigan College, Dowagiac, Michigan, Northern Michigan University, Marquette,Mich. and so on! Enlighten all Michigan Residents not just a Few!
November 4 at 7:23am
Elwin McKellar
Elwin McKellar
This is a wonderful start. Shouldn't this event, your speech, and the presentations be streamed all over the state? Many if not most of those impacted by these ideas live in rural (and in many cases) distant communities. Teleconferencing could have expanded its reach across the whole of Michigan.
November 4 at 7:42am
Michael Loxterman
Michael Loxterman
I have not heard much about the proposal for a Wind Farm in the middle of Lake Michigan. That is something that should be looked at.
November 4 at 3:47pm
Jennifer Granholm
Source: www.mlive.com
Lake County's Yates Township will receive grants totaling $620,046 to fund projects in the historic community of Idlewild, once one of the most popular resort destinations for African-Americans in the Midwest. Gov. Jennifer Granholm Monday announced the grants made available by the Michigan Economic...
Jennifer Granholm
Source: www.uppermichiganssource.com
"I think the governor came up with a real concern of the recent cuts that have been imposed on all of the districts in our region and looking for ways to try and close that so we can go on and not look at additional cuts," says superintendent of Frankfort-Elberta Area Schools, Tom Stobie.
Kate Christensen
Kate Christensen
Don't be fooled by the rocks that she's got. She's still, she's still Jenny from the block.
November 3 at 8:54am
Devon
Devon
There goes the state?!
November 3 at 9:04am
Chris Brown
Chris Brown
Why does everything have to be a "crisis"?
November 3 at 2:07pm
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm At Monday’s press conference, the governor stated she has four goals to accomplish:
1. To solve the K – 12 cuts
2. To save the Promise Scholarship
3. To provide funding for local governments in order to avoid what she calls “extremely dangerous” police and fire layoffs
4. To avoid cuts to healthcare.

Source: www.connectmidmichigan.com
Linda
Linda
Short term fixes, and one-off solutions are not the answer. We need fundamental, structural change.
November 2 at 8:46pm
Jennifer Granholm
Source: www.wnem.com
While at Monday's roundtable discussion, Granholm told area leaders that if state legislators find targeted revenues on oil and gas companies, and tobacco companies in the next two weeks, the $127 cut per student will not take effect. Granholm said she wants to level the playing field against these ...
Jennifer Granholm

Jennifer Granholm Meeting in Saginaw with education officials and parents on the need to fund K-12 education

Mike Bauer
Mike Bauer
It is a sad time. The proposals were made in the past to try and equalize spending from the State because of disparities in spending amongst school districts as many school districts did not have the tax base or the wealth to provide good facilities, salaries, etc.

Do we rethink educational funding? If we eliminated all State funding, except the... Read More Lottery payment and that went to the students. So without regard to the District the funds followed the students woudl taht help? It would help balance the budget of course but would it help the students?
November 2 at 12:40pm
Greg Sullivan
Greg Sullivan
Jennifer,another unemployment extension that won't take effect until Mid December? Are you kidding me??
I'm finally convinced that NO political party has the welfare of the working class as a priority.
The teachers aren't the ONLY ones who feel let down.
November 2 at 8:47pm