The only decent thing he's done in 7 years...doesn't make up for the right-to-work-for-less middle of the night bill, though.

a bitter, choked kind of laugh.

Political hacks do it all the time. You would think I was used to it by now...but it never was this bad in Michigan until Engler.

I grew up in Muskegon and then spent my late teens to early 20s in Grand Rapids. I hear West Michigan is much more liberal now, but back then it was scary how repressive it was. De Vos and VanAndel controlled pretty much everything.

We left just as Engler was coming in, and got to watch what he did from a safe distance. Granholm seemed pretty good, but Snyder seems to really want to screw over everyone in the state.

I do really miss the lake, though.

Single mother, disabled child...no time, no money. Still, Ann Arbor isn't a bad place to be stuck. Lots to do locally, and services for the Kid. And there's a good pool in the summer.

I got back in 1996; my family left in 1969 when I was in high school. But there's no place like home...and I am glad to be here. I didn't fit on any other coast. Or country.

My dad and one brother did undergrad there, another brother did his masters and med school there. Plus, one of my dad's law partners was a regent at UM, so we regularly got tickets to home games. Good times.

My wife and I met in school in the Berkshires (Mass). No other place has really felt like home as much as here, even when we were just visiting. (Well, technically, we're in the Taconics now, but it's close enough.)

they've only managed 23 convictions and have another 106 cases being actively investigated.

Processing the kits is a start. It's not the end. Clearly this is a priority for the state. /sarcasm