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Snyder's gift?

Less benefits = more cops

by James Leonard

posted 12/21/2011

In their radical reinvention of Michigan, governor Rick Snyder and the Republican-controlled legislature have passed plenty of laws that have riled local governments, including expanding the power of emergency managers to take over failing cities. But you'd think that the new law making public employees pay at least 20 percent of the cost of their benefits and

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