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Projects for water quality monitoring eligible for grants
The Water Resources Division of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) will be offering close to $500,000 in available grants for water quality monitoring projects this year.…
Power, not representation, at crux of GOP redistricting bills
Political power for the next decade in Oakland County is at stake as the county’s Reapportionment Commission — which is now controlled by Democrats — does its work to redraw…
Residential permits in county more than doubled in 2010
After several years marked by the crash of the housing market nationwide, preliminary figures from the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) show that people are slowly but surely looking…
Reconstruction of intersection moved up a year
Due to the surge of complaints involving a delay in the Pontiac Trail and West Maple Road intersection reconstruction project in Walled Lake, the county’s Federal Aid Task Force Committee…
DWSD sewer and water rates move toward approval
A recent stipulated order handed down by a federal judge won’t impact current proposed changes in Detroit water and sewer system service rates now working their way toward final approval…
County looks to tap panel to study Web transparency
In yet another move to study an issue that has caused some head-scratching in Pontiac, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners General Government Committee has reported out a measure that…
Bills would allow for 'clean slates' in service mergers
Local governments would no longer be required to honor existing labor contracts for public safety or transportation unions when two or more municipalities seek to merge police, fire or public…
Schools may have to contract out for certain services
Like slowly boiling a frog, lakes area school districts are taking small, gradual steps towards utilizing more private sector services in non-instructional areas. However, one Kent County lawmaker wants to…
Bears moving into state's southern Lower Peninsula
Throughout the past few decades, black bears have moved deeper and deeper into southern Michigan. Although the majority of the population remains in the Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower…
Squeaky wheel gets grease
It wasn’t quite the news many had hoped for — no, demanded — but the recent decision to rebuild the roadways in and around the Pontiac Trail and West Maple…
March 9, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More