The States: Maybe A National Divorce Is A Good Idea After All

[MissThundercat]

Bill Schuette, R-Midland, says that free school lunches are bad because they create more trash.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-go...s-curb-imports

Code for "we shouldn't be letting THOSE people eat!"

[bronconick]

Bill Schuette, R-Midland, says that free school lunches are bad because they create more trash.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-go...s-curb-imports

Someone voted that ******** back into office?

Edit: Oh, it's his spawn. That makes more sense.

[ScoobyDoo]

So happy we let the morons bring measles back. Congratulations.

[Spartanforlife4]

Bill Schuette, R-Midland, says that free school lunches are bad because they create more trash.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-go...s-curb-imports

[Swansong]

... to which they reply with "nuh uh" and then grumble about freedom or something.

[French Rage]

https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/06/...scact-details/

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But in Florida, where 10 residents and at least four non-residents have been diagnosed with measles in the past month or so, the Department of Health has released scant information about those cases. The seeming reticence to speak openly about measles leaves in the dark anyone in the public who might be concerned about whether they may have had an exposure. Likewise, people considering vacations to Florida who want to avoid measles exposures have almost no information on which to plan their trips.

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Public health experts elsewhere see all this as of a piece and worry that the state’s approach could fuel spread of the virus. Part of that approach involved Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, telling parents of unvaccinated children that they could choose whether to send their kids to school or not during the ongoing outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementary — a move that has drawn widespread criticism within the public health sphere.

“Very little information is available,” Scott Rivkees, Florida’s former surgeon general, told STAT by email, adding it is “very unusual to have such sparse information for the public, especially when the onus is being put on parents to make decisions.”

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Giving people the information with which to make decisions like that is an important part of containing measles, said William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “It is very important for public health officials to be very proactive about one, promoting vaccination, which we’re not seeing in Florida, and …. two, in the event of a potential exposure, to make people aware of that, so that individuals have an opportunity to protect themselves and their children,” he said.

Informing the public of sites where measles exposures could have taken place is especially critical when it comes to events in health care settings, which have the capacity to turbocharge both the size of an outbreak and the amount of work that curtailing it will entail.

When people infected with measles visit doctors offices, clinics, or hospitals, they can expose large numbers of people to the highly contagious virus. Some of those people may be infants too young to be vaccinated; the first shot in the two-dose measles regimen is given at between 12 and 15 months. Some may be people who are immunocompromised. Some may be among the rare group of vaccinated people for whom the vaccine didn’t induce protection.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I actually can’t believe there were consequences

[MissThundercat]

South Dakota deserves the government they elected.

https://www.thedakotascout.com/p/sou...dRedirect=true

[rufus]

Dunno. Why do we bail out Floriduh every time there's a hurricane?

[Drew S.]

This really irritates me https://www.pressherald.com/2024/03/...winter-storms/

If businesses are underinsured why should taxpayers bail them out?

[Spartanforlife4]

Soo Tech was created at a time when post-WW2 demand for enrollment at the Houghton campus couldn't be met by the existing infrastructure. They took over a decommissioned fort and set up Soo Tech primarily as a transfer school for returning soldiers using the GI Bill. Students would knock out freshman and sophomore coursework, and if they survived academically, they transferred to Houghton to complete their 4-year degree. I don't think this model is efficient or profitable today unless you have a statewide "system" for all public universities and colleges like Wisconsin/UW does, where each satellite campus is also effectively the local CC.

It's probably not a viable idea. Plus, the way I'd hope to see it operated is likely out of alignment with the current MTU administration's vision and drive to increase the prestige and international renown of the school's existing programs.

LSSU does offer associate degrees already, so it could be turned into a CC and keep a school in the Eastern UP. There's already another one in the Soo, but it's tribal run.

Downstate each school seems to have at least one major it has a specialty in, but there are geographic clusters were a school could close and the others could adsorb, and I think some are already planning for the future. SVSU's biggest program is nursing and CMU just happened to start a nursing program this year. In that triangle between CMU, SVSU, and UM-Flint it would make the most sense to close SVSU since it's in the middle of the two and doesn't have that many more students than Flint.

[LynahFan]

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread-the rich as well as the poor.” -Anatole France

Republicans are so self-unaware they don’t even know they are parodying themselves.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

How much does having a satellite campus actually save versus closing it? There's still a campus and all the costs associated with having classes at that campus to deal with.

Soo Tech was created at a time when post-WW2 demand for enrollment at the Houghton campus couldn't be met by the existing infrastructure. They took over a decommissioned fort and set up Soo Tech primarily as a transfer school for returning soldiers using the GI Bill. Students would knock out freshman and sophomore coursework, and if they survived academically, they transferred to Houghton to complete their 4-year degree. I don't think this model is efficient or profitable today unless you have a statewide "system" for all public universities and colleges like Wisconsin/UW does, where each satellite campus is also effectively the local CC.

It's probably not a viable idea. Plus, the way I'd hope to see it operated is likely out of alignment with the current MTU administration's vision and drive to increase the prestige and international renown of the school's existing programs.

[RaceBoarder]

The writing has been on the wall with LSSU for a while now... They have long had the smallest student population of all the MI public universities. And other than Fisheries/Outdoor Conservation, I don't think there are any super unique majors available.

[Spartanforlife4]

We will definitely be having that conversation in Michigan within the next decade. I do not see how 15 public universities can be sustainable past 2030 unless we can start to reverse our population outflow (not likely until climate change forces the issue in a few decades).

When the time comes, I wonder if MTU would ever consider re-absorbing LSSU and turning it back into MTU-Soo like it was in the 60s.

How much does having a satellite campus actually save versus closing it? There's still a campus and all the costs associated with having classes at that campus to deal with.

In the UP, I would think Tech and NMU would survive. Tech is keeping stable enrollment and I don't think you could leave the UP without a non-engineering school.