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Dinner Deals in Northern Michigan
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What's Happening with Music in Your Child's Life?
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Get Outside:: Week Two
It has been so beautiful Up North (and YES, I'm even talking about the rainy days....we love mucking around in puddles around here!) that I've neglected to do as promised: bring you two great ideas a week for getting your kids outdoors. So we're going to try this again...
Explore Outdoors Idea Two: Hit a Preserve!
We are so fortunate to have so many dedicated spaces Up North, places where no developers will… Continue
Posted on June 12th, 2009 at 2:25pm —
Getting Kids Outdoors: A mama-tested, littles-approved guide
With the Getting Kids Outdoors initiative well underway here in Emmet County, I thought it might be fun to spend a month focusing on specific ideas-- from planned trips to backyard playdates-- that we use time and again with our own children. We recently spent a weekend in Ann Arbor with our kids, and spent an afternoon at the U of M Natural History Museum. There is an entire floor dedicated to "Michigan Wildlife." Peering through each glass case… Continue
Posted on May 21st, 2009 at 9:10pm —
Full.
Full. That's how I'd describe our days as of late, as we rush headlong into summer with every waking moment spent outside playing and exploring and planting and eating and, well, just living. I have to admit, as much as I love the still quiet world of winter, I am humbled by the bursting energy of spring. It makes me realize (again and again) how fantastic our little nook in this world really is.... My top five reasons for loving Up North (today).… Continue
Posted on May 8th, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment
Getting a Daily Dose: Nature Walks
My good friend Molly is actively involved in this amazing initiative in Emmet County-- Getting Kids Outdoors. Watching her pour so much time and energy into this beautiful, simple, and so needed idea of celebrating and encouraging outdoor play has been a reminder of one of the things I love most about northern Michigan: the mamas I get to raise my children alongside. Instead of going on and on a… Continue
Posted on April 17th, 2009 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments
On Spring (again. and again. and again)
Having just finished editing photos from the week, I am sitting here wondering if I can write about anything other than the changing of the seasons. It seems like all the words falling from my head to the keyboard lately are about this time of transition. And even as I type this, while I want to write some philosophical, introspective question pondering the "why" of it all, I know that what I'll end up doing is writing about the fact that I spent the entirety of last week moping mud-- in the for… Continue
Posted on March 29th, 2009 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments
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The proposed Michigan FairTax would REPLACE the income tax and current sales tax, with a consumption tax (sales tax at point of retail sale). Under this plan, no more state tax will be withheld from Michigan wage-earners' paychecks. What's more, every Michigan resident-family will receive a monthly "prebate" check, in amount based on family size. This will ensure that NO Michigan family will EVEN BEGIN paying the MI FairTax on goods / services unless, or until, they exceed poverty-level spending.
Under the MI FairTax plan, points of collection are substantially reduced to just retailers, many of whom are already collecting sales tax. Because service providers must account for income tax withholding and compliance costs, their prices carry a hidden tax which a FairTax will make visible. (Business-to-business purchases would not carry the tax, as this would, again, hide the cost of taxation in prices.)
Because of the "prebate" (advance rebate calculated as .0975 x $ [poverty level spending per family size]) to ALL Michigan-resident households, the MI FairTax rate would effectively be 0% on all monthly family spending to the poverty level; thereafter it's 9.75%. A reasonably inferred average effective rate would be ~5.5% (see p.2 of pdf brochure, also review an economic analysis [pdf] on MI FairTax effects prepared by the Hillsdale Policy Group).
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