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Let #FISA702 expire unless it is fundamentally reformed to include protections for the Fourth Amendment. Contact your representatives today!
#indivisible #KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI #WestMichigan
https://www.kentcountyindivisible.org/preparing-for-the-next-fisa-702-vote/
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Let #FISA702 expire unless it is fundamentally reformed to include protections for the Fourth Amendment. Contact your representatives today!
#indivisible #KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI #WestMichigan
https://www.kentcountyindivisible.org/preparing-for-the-next-fisa-702-vote/
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Let #FISA702 expire unless it is fundamentally reformed to include protections for the Fourth Amendment. Contact your representatives today!
#indivisible #KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI #WestMichigan
https://www.kentcountyindivisible.org/preparing-for-the-next-fisa-702-vote/
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Let #FISA702 expire unless it is fundamentally reformed to include protections for the Fourth Amendment. Contact your representatives today!
#indivisible #KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI #WestMichigan
https://www.kentcountyindivisible.org/preparing-for-the-next-fisa-702-vote/
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Do you live in #WestMichigan and have been looking for a way to get more involved in working to help make change locally and across the state? Kent County Indivisible is looking for volunteers to help us do just that.
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Do you live in #WestMichigan and have been looking for a way to get more involved in working to help make change locally and across the state? Kent County Indivisible is looking for volunteers to help us do just that.
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Do you live in #WestMichigan and have been looking for a way to get more involved in working to help make change locally and across the state? Kent County Indivisible is looking for volunteers to help us do just that.
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The hotel tax increased, so now the county has millions more $$$$ for entertainment venues, ... and everything is fine. 🤔 Something to think about. Could we raise taxes to solve actual problems and provide services for citizens? 🤔 #GrandRapidsMI #KentCountyMI
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2025/05/kent-county-hotel-tax-increase-generates-nearly-1-million-in-first-two-months.html -
Most of the article is meaningless "metro" area numbers - that's as far away as Greenville. However, there are some Kent County numbers: """the number of licensed insurance agencies in Kent County grew from 744 in 2019 to 932 in 2024, a 25% increase, . . . . The number of licensed agents during that same period grew 3%, from 6,587 to 6,783"""
Farmers Insurance Group with 3,500 employees is in the top 10 employers in West Michigan.
#KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI #Economy
https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/workforce/acrisure-put-grand-rapids-on-the-map-now-the-insurance-industry-is-flocking-to-the-city/ -
BREAKING NEWS: County government suddenly discovers it has sufficient funds to build high speed rail!
#GrandRapidsMI #KentCountyMI #satire
https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/the-kent-county-sheriffs-office-increases-patrols-to-curb-distracted-driving -
Health insurance is an employee benefit in the United States.
Should Housing Assistance be an employee benefit?More subsidy pushed into an extremely constrained market, employees of large companies getting a housing advantage over those of smaller employers or the self-employed?
#HousingKent #HousingCrisis #HousingNext #KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI
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Housing Kent has issued a new report; you can find it @ http://housingkent.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HK_SoH2024_V10.pdf
It is difficult to read these reports, with lines like: "We are on the brink of a five-year journey to prioritize cross-sector near-term solutions, ..." and not think, well, the journey that takes longest to finish is the one that never gets started. 🙁 #GrandRapidsMI #KentCountyMI #HousingCrisis -
Kent County District Library system (KDL) saw record engagement in 2024, hosting over 6,000 free programs.
Public libraries continue to be thriving third-spaces. #KentCountyMI #Libraries
https://www.rapidgrowthmedia.com/features/kdl-building-on-record-year-with-more-programs-connections-and-expansion-projects.aspx -
Updated "Affordability" tables for Grand Rapids and Kent county.
https://urbangr.org/AffordabilityTables2025#
#GrandRapidsMI #KentCountyMI #housing #affordable -
It's that time again: Survey Time! Please ensure that urban citizens are represented. #KentCountyMI
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GoKentCo -
"""of all the vacant land in Kent County that is zoned for residential use, 97.8% of it is zoned for single-family housing"""; a number which should be 0%.
Also, experts being surprised by the unsurprising findings of yet another study is getting to be an old trope. 🙄
#GrandRapidsMI #KentCounty #KentCountyMI #HousingCrisis #ExclusionaryZoning
https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/real-estate/kent-county-could-add-70000-housing-units-along-underused-commercial-corridors-study-finds/ -
The Kent county lodging tax increased passed with 54% of the vote. The intend is to raise an additional $8,000,000 which will be directed to projects like the amphitheater and stadium. #GrandRapidsMI #KentCountyMI
https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/economic-development/kent-county-voters-pass-lodging-tax-hike-for-amphitheater-soccer-stadium/ -
And in another victory for local community advocates the Turn-John-Ball-Zoo-Into-A-Parking-Lot plan is "indefinitely delayed". ✊ #JBZoo #GrandRapidsMI #KentCountyMI
https://www.crainsgrandrapids.com/news/real-estate/kent-county-indefinitely-delays-vote-on-john-ball-zoo-surface-parking-plan/ -
Kent County launching $58M affordable housing loan program! 👊😍
#KentCountyMI #GrandRapidsMI #Housing #HousingCrisis
https://urbangr.org/KentCountyAffordableHousingFund202308
