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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is defending her decision to line-item veto legislation removing $10 million to compensate people wrongfully convicted. The money is needed to replenish the nearly depleted compensation fund.

The money was in a bill to legislation to improve transparency and reporting for the compensation fund.

Whitmer says the money should instead be part of a supplemental budget bill.

“We have a vehicle to actually fund it… they should put the $10 million in that supplemental and get it to my desk and we can do it right,” says Whitmer. “And respect people’s constitutional rights in this state."

The bill’s Republican sponsor is criticizing the Democratic governor's line-item veto. 

Rep. Steve Johnson accuses Whitmer of "playing politics" to gain leverage for other spending she wants in supplemental budget legislation.

Whitmer points her finger at Republican lawmakers, accusing them of playing politics with those seeking compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned.

“They’re being victimized by a legislature that’s not doing it right,” says Whitmer. “They know how they’re supposed to be appropriating money. They know there is an accountable way of doing it. And there’s a vehicle. They could do it tomorrow.”

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1. Locate the Return Form you received with the merchandise and separate it from the Order Summary. Keep the Order Summary for your records.
2. On the Return Form enter the reason return code to the left of each item returned.
3. Detach the Return Label. Please make address corrections if necessary.
4. Fill out the section telling us how you would like your return processed (refund, gift card or exchange.)
5. Enclose your Return Form with the merchandise in a sealed box. You may pay for the postage yourself, or attach the Easy Return Label. This pre-paid form allows you to put the package in your mailbox, USPS drop box or take it to the Post Office. We will deduct $8.95 from your return credit. Sorry, returns are not accepted at Sears Stores

To much messing about,get in the car,go to the store,buy the right thing in the first place and not have to keep revisiting spending all that time on a lousy shirt.

Depends on how one values their time verses the actual savings by purchasing online,sure if the right thing arrives the first time and you do not have to return it,but how much are you really saving when you have to spend time messing about with returns.

Even more so if one has a day job and cannot just drop into the local post office.

My favorite is,we will charge your account and send you another one then refund the difference when we receive the original back.

You screwed up and now want to play with my money for 3 weeks while i spend even more time and money sending an item back for replacement.

Imagine the interest they are making on that,you get 500,000 customers sending you money that you bank and collect interest on for a couple of weeks before you send the item back.

As of late I am finding Amazon to be in most cases double priced of what I can buy it locally,so that convenience seems to come at a price.

Armed with very little financial flexibility last summer, the Detroit Pistons were able to sign former Indiana Pacers small forward Glenn Robinson III to a modest 2-year, $8 million deal with a team option in the second season.

Robinson was coming off an injury-plagued season in which he only played 23 games. In those games, he shot a blistering 41.2% from three, albeit in a small sample size (14/34 shots).

Robinson, the winner of the 2017 NBA Dunk Contest, came to the Pistons ready for a fresh start and a return home to the state where he played his college ball at the University of Michigan.

The move made sense both financially and strategically: bring in an affordable shooter and athletic defender to shore up the depth behind starting small forward Stanley Johnson.

Glenn Robinson III started the year playing frequently, averaging 15.3 minutes in the first three months of the season and even starting a few games. But he had an awful December, posting a net rating per 100 possessions of -27.1.

His poor December performance appeared to be his undoing, and he was quickly yanked from the rotation. But from January on, in limited minutes, he actually posted a halfway decent defensive rating average of 99.13.

But it was likely his offense that kept him off the court. With Robinson on the court, the Pistons had a 105.5 offensive rating as opposed to 110.3 with him off.

After the trades of 6’7″ small forwards Stanley Johnson and Reggie Bullock, the Pistons were left very small on the wing, with 6’4″ Bruce Brown playing at the small forward spot. This was Robinson’s chance to step in and earn more playing time by defending opposing team’s larger wing players, being the only wing player on the roster 6’6″ or taller.

Despite the golden opportunity to prove his worth, he was unable to make much of it. He did see a bit of an uptick in minutes in March when the Detroit Pistons were playing well, but most of those minutes were in garbage time.

He ended the season with 4.2 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 0.4 assists while shooting 42% overall and only 29% from three.

After an underwhelming season, what does the future hold for Glenn Robinson III?

Despite the team being very small on the wing, he was still not able to earn many minutes, leading many to believe that Dwayne Casey doesn’t have much faith in Robinson moving forward.

The Detroit Pistons have the team option to bring him back next year, but Robinson under-performing coupled with the Pistons salary situation will likely cause them to decide to move on. But there is always the chance he may return, hopefully as the player, the Detroit Pistons signed him to be.

The shop's last day was March 29, Crain's reports. Owner Megan Lewis says the decision was a personal one and had nothing to do with Sanford increasing rents. However, Nelson has purchased about 20 Eastern Market buildings over the last year and is increasing rents as he prepares to do repairs. That's forcing out a large number of longtime tenants — both residential and commercial — and some of those involved with the market say the changes mark the end of an era. Sanford is the Blomfield Hills-raised 30-year-old son of wealthy entrepreneur Linden Nelson.

Though several business owners have told reporters that Nelson's rent increases have nothing to do with their closures, others have said on and off the record that they do. Regardless, there's a clear pattern — Nelson buys a building, then businesses close and residents move out. There's almost certainly more to come.

Nelson told Crain's it's too early to say what will replace Mootown. He owns the building with Mootown, Supino, Zeff's Coney Island, and Russell Street Deli.

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