MEETING THURSDAY: The next Bay County GOP meeting is this Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. at Midland St. Jack's, 604 E. Midland St., Bay City. We will be pleased to be joined by Tom Wassa, candidate for Congress.
TRIFECTA: Romney wins WI, DC, MD: Mitt Romney cruised to victories Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, adding to his widening delegate lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum trailed the G.O.P. front-runner by a wide margin in Maryland and several thousand votes in Wisconsin, after he failed to get on the ballot in the nation's capital. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich lagged far behind in all three primaries. http://on.wsj.com/HOcAps
DETROIT CITY COUNCIL APPROVES CONSENT AGREEMENT IN 5-4 VOTE: After weeks of meetings, rallies, and court battles, the Detroit City Council voted Wednesday evening to approve a consent agreement with the State of Michigan, thus potentially warding off the threat of an emergency manager to oversee the city's finances. Read the consent agreement.
Under the consent agreement, a financial advisory board whose members would be appointed by Governor Rick Snyder, Mayor Dave Bing and the City Council would advise and review all fiscal matters. The governor would appoint three members, the state treasurer would appoint one, the mayor would appoint two and the City Council would appoint two.
The 5-4 vote today came just 24 hours before Mr. Snyder’s deadline for appointing an emergency manager, who would have broad powers to cut union contracts, oversee budgets and cancel contracts with city vendors, among other powers. http://on.freep.com/H9COVc
COLUMN: EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MANAGERS PROVIDE HELP, not hurt for struggling Michigan cities: The only problem with Michigan’s controversial emergency financial manager law is that it cannot be applied to the budgeting/spending dysfunction of the federal government. The law -- in the news across the state last week with pending takeovers in the city of Detroit (where it was being resisted) and Muskegon Heights schools (where it was requested by the school board months ago) and a second go-round of state-enforced fiscal responsibility in Flint -- would make a positive difference in Washington, D.C. It would be no problem if the two political parties couldn’t work things out to balance the U.S. budget and live within our nation’s means. We’d just appoint a qualified, common-sense administrator with sweeping powers and no ax to grind to get the job done, and I bet we wouldn’t be spending more than we take in before too long. http://bit.ly/I5FJBL
APRIL FOOLS: U.S. now has world's highest corporate tax rate: As of April 1, the U.S. corporate tax rate of 39.2 percent claimed the world’s top spot, edging out Japan which recently lowered its rate from 39.5 percent to 36.8 percent. (The U.S. rate includes the 35 percent federal rate plus the average rate the states add on.) That’s well above the 25 percent average of other developed nations. Heritage’s Curtis Dubay explains the impact on companies based in the United States: http://herit.ag/yiv
THE DAY AFTER OBAMACARE: A deregulated health-care and health-insurance market can work. We can at least start by removing the obvious elephants in the room: all the legislation, regulation and interventions that needlessly keep prices up, keep competition and innovation out, shelter people from the economic consequences of their decisions, and prevent the emergence of real insurance that follows you from job to job and from health to illness and back. http://on.wsj.com/H9YTXw
Appeals court fires back at Obama's comments on health care case: "[A] federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff -- ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom. The order, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, appears to be in direct response to the president's comments yesterday about the Supreme Court's review of the health care law." http ://cbsn.ws/HHRMmt
Henninger: The Supreme Court Lands in Oz: Another possible explanation occurs. It's in one of the grandest moments in "The Wizard of Oz," when the Wizard, fumbling at the controls inside his throne room, shouts to Dorothy and the others: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Barack Obama, a wizard of another kind, has been trying with fulminations and denunciations to keep anyone from attempting what a law professor might call discovery of what the president actually has done in the past three years. We already know, for instance, that the stimulus's $825 billion went up the chimney. What else? http://on.wsj.com/I0AEWh
OBAMA'S LAW: 'it's judicial empathy if the Supreme Court agrees with me, judicial activism if it does not': On Monday, President Obama warned that any attempt by the Supreme Court to strike down the individual healthcare mandate would be “judicial activism” of the very worst kind. “I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” he said. In fact, the Supreme Court does that a lot – that’s sort of the point of judicial review. But for the uninitiated, it could sound like the Pres has embraced the noble, ordinarily conservative critique of judicial activism. Is Barack Obama a Newt Gingrich in sheep’s clothing? http://tgr.ph/HaMmSq
MICHIGAN MAY CHANGE CONCEALED CARRY LAW: People with concealed weapons permits could carry handguns in more public places if they get additional training under provisions of a measure a Michigan Senate committee approved last Thursday. The bill that would change parts of the state’s concealed weapons law advances to the Senate floor after winning approval from the Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Committee. http://on.lsj.com/GTLFw0
BIRTHWEEK: Tuesday: John Madden. Friday: Thomas Jefferson. Sunday: Leonardo da Vinci, Joe Davis (the English snooker player, not the county commissioner).
MIKE WALLACE PASSES AWAY AGED 93: Mike Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation’s best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the famous and infamous on “60 Minutes,” died on Saturday. He was 93. A reporter with the presence of a performer, Mr. Wallace went head to head with chiefs of state, celebrities and con artists for more than 50 years, living for the moment when “you forget the lights, the cameras, everything else, and you’re really talking to each other,” he said in an interview with The New York Times videotaped in July 2006. http://nyti.ms/HpzmF7
OPENING DAY—VERLANDER BRILLIANT, A-JAX WALKS OFF: Justin Verlander was brilliant on the mound and Prince Fielder drove in a key run with his bat. Still, after a rare slip by Jose Valverde, the Detroit Tigers were all tied with Boston in the bottom of the ninth. Up stepped Austin Jackson -- Detroit's strikeout-prone leadoff man -- needing only a little poke through the infield to win the game. Jackson delivered, hitting a sharp groundball past third with the bases loaded to give the Tigers a 3-2 win over the Red Sox in Thursday's opener. http://es.pn/HhWc1B
OH HOW 'SWEEP' IT IS: Alex Avila's two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning gave the Detroit Tigers a stunning 13-12 victory over Boston on Sunday, leaving the Red Sox winless in three games under new manager Bobby Valentine. Detroit trailed 10-7 when Miguel Cabrera tied the game with a three-run shot off Alfredo Aceves in the ninth. Boston then scored twice in the 11th, but Mark Melancon (0-2) couldn't hold the lead. Cabrera and Prince Fielder singled before a wild pitch sent Cabrera to third and Delmon Young's sacrifice fly cut the margin in half. Avila followed with a drive to right and Cody Ross tried to make a leaping catch, but the ball appeared to hit a restraining gate just above the wall before caroming back onto the field. http://es.pn/Hq2f48
Tigers’ Verlander Setting Expectations Ever Higher: "My goal is to be a better pitcher," Verlander said last week in a telephone interview. "And its very possible I could be a better pitcher and stll not have numbers as good as last year. I'm just trying to pitch to the best of my ability, and the best way to one-up last year is to win the World Series." http://nyti.ms/HjOxFE
TRIFECTA: Romney wins WI, DC, MD: Mitt Romney cruised to victories Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, adding to his widening delegate lead over the rest of the Republican presidential field. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum trailed the G.O.P. front-runner by a wide margin in Maryland and several thousand votes in Wisconsin, after he failed to get on the ballot in the nation's capital. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich lagged far behind in all three primaries. http://on.wsj.com/HOcAps
DETROIT CITY COUNCIL APPROVES CONSENT AGREEMENT IN 5-4 VOTE: After weeks of meetings, rallies, and court battles, the Detroit City Council voted Wednesday evening to approve a consent agreement with the State of Michigan, thus potentially warding off the threat of an emergency manager to oversee the city's finances. Read the consent agreement.
Under the consent agreement, a financial advisory board whose members would be appointed by Governor Rick Snyder, Mayor Dave Bing and the City Council would advise and review all fiscal matters. The governor would appoint three members, the state treasurer would appoint one, the mayor would appoint two and the City Council would appoint two.
The 5-4 vote today came just 24 hours before Mr. Snyder’s deadline for appointing an emergency manager, who would have broad powers to cut union contracts, oversee budgets and cancel contracts with city vendors, among other powers. http://on.freep.com/H9COVc
COLUMN: EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MANAGERS PROVIDE HELP, not hurt for struggling Michigan cities: The only problem with Michigan’s controversial emergency financial manager law is that it cannot be applied to the budgeting/spending dysfunction of the federal government. The law -- in the news across the state last week with pending takeovers in the city of Detroit (where it was being resisted) and Muskegon Heights schools (where it was requested by the school board months ago) and a second go-round of state-enforced fiscal responsibility in Flint -- would make a positive difference in Washington, D.C. It would be no problem if the two political parties couldn’t work things out to balance the U.S. budget and live within our nation’s means. We’d just appoint a qualified, common-sense administrator with sweeping powers and no ax to grind to get the job done, and I bet we wouldn’t be spending more than we take in before too long. http://bit.ly/I5FJBL
APRIL FOOLS: U.S. now has world's highest corporate tax rate: As of April 1, the U.S. corporate tax rate of 39.2 percent claimed the world’s top spot, edging out Japan which recently lowered its rate from 39.5 percent to 36.8 percent. (The U.S. rate includes the 35 percent federal rate plus the average rate the states add on.) That’s well above the 25 percent average of other developed nations. Heritage’s Curtis Dubay explains the impact on companies based in the United States: http://herit.ag/yiv
THE DAY AFTER OBAMACARE: A deregulated health-care and health-insurance market can work. We can at least start by removing the obvious elephants in the room: all the legislation, regulation and interventions that needlessly keep prices up, keep competition and innovation out, shelter people from the economic consequences of their decisions, and prevent the emergence of real insurance that follows you from job to job and from health to illness and back. http://on.wsj.com/H9YTXw
Appeals court fires back at Obama's comments on health care case: "[A] federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff -- ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom. The order, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, appears to be in direct response to the president's comments yesterday about the Supreme Court's review of the health care law." http ://cbsn.ws/HHRMmt
Henninger: The Supreme Court Lands in Oz: Another possible explanation occurs. It's in one of the grandest moments in "The Wizard of Oz," when the Wizard, fumbling at the controls inside his throne room, shouts to Dorothy and the others: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." Barack Obama, a wizard of another kind, has been trying with fulminations and denunciations to keep anyone from attempting what a law professor might call discovery of what the president actually has done in the past three years. We already know, for instance, that the stimulus's $825 billion went up the chimney. What else? http://on.wsj.com/I0AEWh
OBAMA'S LAW: 'it's judicial empathy if the Supreme Court agrees with me, judicial activism if it does not': On Monday, President Obama warned that any attempt by the Supreme Court to strike down the individual healthcare mandate would be “judicial activism” of the very worst kind. “I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” he said. In fact, the Supreme Court does that a lot – that’s sort of the point of judicial review. But for the uninitiated, it could sound like the Pres has embraced the noble, ordinarily conservative critique of judicial activism. Is Barack Obama a Newt Gingrich in sheep’s clothing? http://tgr.ph/HaMmSq
MICHIGAN MAY CHANGE CONCEALED CARRY LAW: People with concealed weapons permits could carry handguns in more public places if they get additional training under provisions of a measure a Michigan Senate committee approved last Thursday. The bill that would change parts of the state’s concealed weapons law advances to the Senate floor after winning approval from the Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Committee. http://on.lsj.com/GTLFw0
BIRTHWEEK: Tuesday: John Madden. Friday: Thomas Jefferson. Sunday: Leonardo da Vinci, Joe Davis (the English snooker player, not the county commissioner).
MIKE WALLACE PASSES AWAY AGED 93: Mike Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation’s best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the famous and infamous on “60 Minutes,” died on Saturday. He was 93. A reporter with the presence of a performer, Mr. Wallace went head to head with chiefs of state, celebrities and con artists for more than 50 years, living for the moment when “you forget the lights, the cameras, everything else, and you’re really talking to each other,” he said in an interview with The New York Times videotaped in July 2006. http://nyti.ms/HpzmF7
OPENING DAY—VERLANDER BRILLIANT, A-JAX WALKS OFF: Justin Verlander was brilliant on the mound and Prince Fielder drove in a key run with his bat. Still, after a rare slip by Jose Valverde, the Detroit Tigers were all tied with Boston in the bottom of the ninth. Up stepped Austin Jackson -- Detroit's strikeout-prone leadoff man -- needing only a little poke through the infield to win the game. Jackson delivered, hitting a sharp groundball past third with the bases loaded to give the Tigers a 3-2 win over the Red Sox in Thursday's opener. http://es.pn/HhWc1B
OH HOW 'SWEEP' IT IS: Alex Avila's two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning gave the Detroit Tigers a stunning 13-12 victory over Boston on Sunday, leaving the Red Sox winless in three games under new manager Bobby Valentine. Detroit trailed 10-7 when Miguel Cabrera tied the game with a three-run shot off Alfredo Aceves in the ninth. Boston then scored twice in the 11th, but Mark Melancon (0-2) couldn't hold the lead. Cabrera and Prince Fielder singled before a wild pitch sent Cabrera to third and Delmon Young's sacrifice fly cut the margin in half. Avila followed with a drive to right and Cody Ross tried to make a leaping catch, but the ball appeared to hit a restraining gate just above the wall before caroming back onto the field. http://es.pn/Hq2f48
Tigers’ Verlander Setting Expectations Ever Higher: "My goal is to be a better pitcher," Verlander said last week in a telephone interview. "And its very possible I could be a better pitcher and stll not have numbers as good as last year. I'm just trying to pitch to the best of my ability, and the best way to one-up last year is to win the World Series." http://nyti.ms/HjOxFE
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