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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Maple Fest at Marilla Museum & Pioneer Place

This is the sort of place that oozes history like sugar sap.  You truly have to go there and explore the dense museum in the basement of the community center, and to wander through the barns and houses.  We invite you to do so.


The Marilla Museum & Pioneer Place is at 9991 Marilla Rd., within Manistee County.

Google map here:





Thursday, April 16, 2015

Proposal 1 presentation (League of Women Voters, Kathy Ling)

Updated 4/19/15

This online presentation was produced in association with the League of Women Voters--Manistee County.  Special thanks to Nancy Behring.





One-page primer (mentioned in presentation):


Specific links regarding Proposal 1 of 2015 (mentioned in presentation):

Estimate of funding for local road commissions (MI Dept. of Transportation)
http://michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_BallotProposalDistLocals_481857_7.pdf

Detroit Free Press article (Paul Egan, March 2, 2015)
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/03/02/michigan-roads-proposal-1-sales-tax/24283535/

Other specifc links:
Ballotpedia.org's analysis of Prop. 1, including links to legislative text (i.e. the 10 bills that would go into effect, if passed)
http://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_Sales_Tax_Increase_for_Transportation_Amendment,_Proposal_1_%28May_2015%29

General links (mentioned in presentation):

Voter registration - https://vote.michigan.gov/mvic

Voting location - http://www.michigan.gov/vote

LWVMI - http://www.lwvmi.org

LWV - http://www.vote411.org

MI House Fiscal Agency - http://www.house.mi.gov/hfa

MI Senate Fiscal Agency - http://www.senate.michigan.gov/sfa

Citizens Research Council - http://crcmich.org


Originally published 4/16/15

Our live broadcast from Manistee High School went fairly well.  It was our first attempt from a remote location. 

A partial recording of the broadcast, as heard online, can be heard right away, here:

http://mixlr.com/three-pines-gander/showreel/lwv-prop-1-presentation-april-15-2015/

A complete recording, along with the LWV's explanatory graphics, will be available on this website by this weekend.