LANSING -- Michigan has paid a developer $16 million after seizing land for a highway project in metro Detroit. (Detroit Free Press, 1.2.09).

Amazing that Michigan is facing an immediate shortfall of $106 million and looking at a $1.5 billion budget shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year would now have to pay out $16 million on a court ordered settlement. Developer greed and a lawyer's greed. Case goes all the way up to State Supreme Court. State was going to pay in 1995 $2.8 million and court gets it up to $16 million. What happened the courts staying out of policy making. The state ought to give the name and email address of the developer and his lawyer to every child in every school district and university. They should email them the next time their tuition goes up or their school cuts a K-12 program. What a disaster. Just what Michigan does not need--another $16 million to have to cut from its budget. Ugh. Maybe we should start a Michigan Hall of Shame and post this type of judicial and developer activity.