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Those promoting the "Keep Home Care Safe" ballot proposal want people to believe the constitution changing plan would create a benefit to allow disabled people to be taken care of in their homes. The thing is, that protection and a program to ensure it continues already exists. The federal Home Help Program would continue to exist in Michigan regardless of the constitutional amendment change that's being proposed. However, passing the proposed amendment in November would lock the forced unionization of home health care workers into the state constitution and ensure that the Service Employees International Union continues to get about...

(snip)....There will never be a mainstream news media anymore," said Ken Braun, managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential and part of the five-person media panel. "It is becoming what I call a multi-stream media. That's the future we are headed to."... (snip)

Sorry — Your Film Office Success Story Was Not Found Apparently, fame can be fleeting in the movie industry, even if you are just a Michigan business trying to cash-in on it. The Oink Joint, a diner in Birch Run Township, made a public relations splash after it was featured in the 2009 Drew Barrymore movie "Whip It." The building — formerly Ken’s Diner — was part of the filming for the movie in 2008, and then the fictional diner was made into a real-life diner with the same name, using menus from the movie. Governing magazine mentioned the Oink...