Christine Barry

Because well behaved women seldom make history

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Report shows Shiawassee unemployment rate down

The Michigan League for Human Services has issued a report (pdf) that shows some good news for Shiawassee. The unemployment...

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Thanks Again, From The Bottom Of Our Stomachs

Just want to give another shout out to our awesome commissioners. From the AP:

The number of Michigan households getting food stamps has risen 53 percent in the past five years, with one in eight state residents now aided by the nutrition assistance program, authorities say.

In all, 590,600 state households got food stamps in March, the Michigan Department of Human Services says. The households include 1.26 million people, or 12.5 percent of the state’s 10.07 million residents.

Nationwide, 27.7 million people received food stamps in January — or 9.2 percent of the nation’s 300 million people.

So now is a great time to cash in on hunger.

3 comments to Thanks Again, From The Bottom Of Our Stomachs

Rachael

May 14, 2008 at 1:22 pm

Christine, I just found your blog via MLive blogs – that’s AWESOME that you’re blogging from Shiawassee County.

I grew up between Byron and Bancroft, and even though I live north of Flint now I still consider myself a country girl.

Adding you to my feed reader now.

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christine

May 17, 2008 at 9:04 pm

Hi Rachael, great to have you here! I also blog state level issues over on BFM … bloggingformichigan.com.

Most of my Shiawassee stuff stays here though. And you might like our forums as well … shiawasseecounty.net/forum. Jump in anytime!

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christine

April 12, 2009 at 6:54 pm

As I’m going through my old posts, adjusting them for the new software & theme, I found the link to Dan Stewart’s blog – http://web.mac.com/danthemanstewart/http%3A__web.mac.com_danthemanstewart/Blog/Blog.html

From his Feb 14 article:

Excitement, relief & gratefulness are but a few of the emotions I have now that HB 5992 has passed. PA 375 gave local commissioners the ability to waive fees for non-profit groups. This was a long hard fought battle for me. This process took over a year to accomplish but in the end “justice was served”.

The commissioners passed the waiving of the fees unanimously on 2-12-09. The waiving of the inspection and licensing fees were made effective 1-1-09 so that retroactivity allows non-profits who have already paid this year to obtain a refund.

I’m glad the matter is settled, and I appreciate the work that was put into this. But, I still say that they were cowards for not doing the right thing to begin with.

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