Michigan Proves How Destitute It Is

by approving funds to build a $25.3 million Great Lakes Research Center.

The state is to pay 74 percent of the cost and the university 26 percent.

The 49,000-square-foot center will house laboratories, boat maintenance facilities, offices and conference rooms. It also will accommodate joint activities of researchers from Michigan Tech and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' environmental lab in Vicksburg, Miss.

I cannot wait until next year's budget debacle when hand wringing bureaucrats will lament the absence of money to keep schools open and prisoners behind bars. Nothing that a good old fashioned tax increase won't solve.