Tag Archives: Joseph Harris

Michigan continues to dismantle valuable community infrastructure, shift tax burden to working class, in order to pay for tax breaks for business owners

By Mark | February 13, 2012

As you may have read on Eclectablog a few days ago, Joseph Harris, the Emergency Financial Manager installed by the Governor’s office to oversee the dismantling/privatization of Benton Harbor, recently put the City’s small, in-house radio station up for sale on Ebay. Well, Rachel Maddow just picked up on the story. Here’s her report. Visit […]

Posted in Media, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Benton Harbor, community assets, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ebay, Eclectablog, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Homestead Property Tax Credit, Michigan Business Tax, pensions, privatization, Rick Snyder, shifting the tax burden to the working class, tax policy, Tax Time Bomb, taxing the poor, threats to Democracy, WBHC | 29 Comments

Could the takeover of Benton Harbor have been motivated by a real estate deal?

By Mark | April 21, 2011

I know it’s kind of old news at this point, but, a few days ago, Rachel Maddow touched on the recent state-sanctioned takeover of Benton Harbor, and the beachfront land grab that might be behind it. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy For more on how the recent actions […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Benton Harbor, Czars, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Fred Upton, golf courses, Harbor Shores golf resort, Jean Klock Park, Lake Michigan, race, Rick Snyder, St. Joseph, threats to Democracy, Whirlpool | 10 Comments

And so it begins… Benton Harbor’s EFM becomes first to invoke new powers, dissolve elected government

By Mark | April 16, 2011

Invoking the powers recently bestowed upon Michigan’s emergency financial managers by the Republican legislature, Joseph L. Harris, the Granholm-appointed emergency financial manager for Benton Harbor, yesterday dissolved all elected bodies within that city. (His official order can be seen below.) This, I believe, is the first instance of an emergency financial manager exercising the bold, […]