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@boolificent❤️ | Senior Reporter @MichiganAdvance | Borinqueño 🇵🇷 Mexicano 🇲🇽 Slovák | Long-suffering Cleveland sports fan

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I just wrote a 5-tweet eulogy for @OzzyOsbourne but then decided that the Prince of Darkness would have thought that excessive and bougie, so allow me to just say: THANK YOU, for everything, Ozzy. Your music changed my life.
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The House budget bonanza gets going late in the third quarter, but better late than never. Full story updated from our breaking news hit.
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The long-awaited Michigan House of Representatives budget landed Tuesday, moving the showdown over how to fund the state in a renewed time of divided government into its next phase – negotiations on...
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Bollin: "We've said to the gov and the Senate -- show us your roads plan. They said we can't show you a roads plan until we see your budget. Well guess what? They have our budget now.". To Bollin's point, the ball is now in the Senate's court on road funding.
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Bollin said they've also been hounded by the press (our jobs) and the Senate all through the process, so transparency was there.
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Bollin said her approps committee didn't start by asking departments how they could increase their budgets, they held numerous hearings delving into current projects and programs. She said they dug in to see if those programs were actually delivering, which informed the budget.
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Rep. Ann Bollin on question if the budget process they engaged in was truly transparent given that the budget passed today was discharged from committee on the floor: "We approached this very differently.".
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RT @janusfilms: Or never do it.
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RT @kylemooney: new thing
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RT @JohnSellek: Considering that many Duggan endorsements were Wayne County folks at the nonpartisan mayoral level, former electeds, or the….
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First off, what's with these uncanny valley AI avatars?. Second, the answer: probably Madonna or Michael because I've already seen Prince once and he only had half a catalog then; Springsteen's 80s material was weird; I don't think Whitney, George or Phil would be worth it live.
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RT @DavidEggert00: Democrats are in caucus. All Republicans in attendance - 57 - and 2 Dems have voted yes. 15 more Dem votes would be need….
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.@TimSkubick is an OG, but he dunked on my hat today. I told him that I'm in my Brian Johnson era.
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A knee kick was the best way I could describe what happened yesterday regarding the non-timeline announced by a key member of the House, which was contradicted hours later by the chamber's leader.
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A key Republican legislator announced Tuesday that the Michigan House of Representatives’ full budget plan could land as soon as next week, but hours later, Republican House Speaker Matt Hall gave...
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One the best things about my current job is that I get to write stories from angles/through lenses that few other outlets touch or consider, and I don't feel like the end product conflicts with my values. Proud of this one.
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The LIV Golf team championship is set to host professional stars and international music acts this weekend at The Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth, Michigan – but with it comes criticism...
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State Rep. Ann Bollin says the House's full budget plan could be completed as soon as next week. (Reposting because Twitter continues to be a broken social media platform and it ate my previous link).
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After months of infighting and barbs thrown at the opposite respective chambers of the Michigan Legislature, the state’s House of Representatives appears poised to release the rest of its budget plan...
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Happening soon: @MMLeague will be joined by legislators, local leaders, developers, and home builders from across the state to announce a bold strategy to build and rehab more attainable housing in Michigan.
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"Mejor morir de pie que vivir arrodillado." . Emiliano Zapata.
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RT @AbdulElSayed: Lansing knows it just shouldn’t be this hard. Lansing is ready to take money out of politics, put more money in folks’s p….
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Ben Solis
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I've seen enough. #StartSanders.
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Can’t throw that ball.
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