News from The Hill Michigan's waning congressional clout By Russell Berman

News from The Hill

Michigan's waning congressional clout By Russell Berman

Michigan's unlikely dominance in congressional clout is about to take a hit.

Though the state is the country's ninth-largest by population, it is tops along with California with six committee chairmen – four Republicans in the House and two Democrats in the Senate. And the two longest-serving members of the House, Reps. John Dingell (D) and John Conyers (D), hail from Michigan and carry more than a century of congressional seniority between them.

But that will change in 2015 with the retirement of Dingell, the dean of the House, and three of the men wielding gavels in the Capitol: Reps. Dave Camp (R) and Mike Rogers (R), and Sen. Carl Levin (D). Read the story here.

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Eric Knysz guilty as charged in murder of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II The Muskegon Chronicle by John Hausman

Eric Knysz guilty as charged in murder of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II The Muskegon Chronicle by John Hausman – Wednesday February 26, 2014

A hero remembered – never forgotten… End of watch in a traffic stop around 6:20 p.m. Sept. 9, 2013, on Custer Road north of Townline Road in rural Mason County’s Freesoil Township, Michigan… Law enforcement today remembers a comrade in arms, Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II. We thank him for his service. May he and his family now rest in peace as others carry-on his watch…

Justice has been served in the case of the cop-killer who took the life of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II; but it does not ease the pain or bring him back… Our hearts and prayers go out to the family of Trooper Butterfield…

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LUDINGTON, MI – It took a Mason County jury 90 minutes to find Eric John Knysz guilty as charged of the murder of Michigan State Police ...

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2014/02/eric_knysz_guilty_as_charged_i.html

LUDINGTON, MI – It took a Mason County jury 90 minutes to find Eric John Knysz guilty as charged of the murder of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II.

The panel of nine women and three men found Knysz, 20, of Irons guilty of first-degree murder of a peace officer, felony firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and unlawfully driving away an automobile (car theft).

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According to … recorded police interviews with Eric Knysz, he shot Butterfield because he was driving on a suspended license – a suspension that was due to end less than six hours later – and had concealed firearms in the truck, a felony, and feared going to jail.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2014/02/eric_knysz_guilty_as_charged_i.html

[20140226 Knysz guilty killing MI St Police] Law Order, Law Order Police line of duty death, Crime, US st Michigan, MD State Police, 

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Blair Lee: Why Baltimore is not Detroit

Why Baltimore is not Detroit

Friday, September 27, 2013 by Blair Lee http://www.gazette.net/article/20130927/OPINION/130929269/-1/why-baltimore-is-not-detroit&template=gazette

There was considerable rejoicing in Baltimore city this week when George Mason University released a study saying that, compared to Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Providence and San Bernardino, Baltimore is on “reasonably solid financial footing” and is demonstrating “financial resiliency.”

Of course those other five cities are all basket cases (two are in bankruptcy), so being best of the lot isn’t so hot.

The Baltimore Sun highlighted the parts of the report crediting Baltimore’s success to sound city management provided by a strong-mayor system which lets the city’s Board of Estimates (controlled by the mayor) write the city budget and run the city’s finances without interference from the City Council, which can only lower the spending levels, not increase them.

But if you actually read the George Mason report it tells a much different story. What’s really keeping Baltimore afloat isn’t its mayor or its charter, it’s the billions of dollars the state of Maryland pours into the city every year… http://www.gazette.net/article/20130927/OPINION/130929269/-1/why-baltimore-is-not-detroit&template=gazette

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