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Democracy Tree: How Gov. Snyder pitted city vs. city in water wars

by Amy Kerr Hardin The uncertainty created under Gov. Snyder’s emergency manager model of governance fostered dangerous fear-based public policy decisions — Michigan municipalities were pitted one against another —…

Editor January 25, 2016

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Barry Hastings: This means war between the ‘rabble’ and the GOP

By Barry Hastings Several months ago, in a piece written for this column (The ticking time-bomb), I said, "I think this guy (Trump) just might be the fatal blow to…

Editor January 25, 2016

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Monday Moanin’: Too much slack in my JC Penney slacks

By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ If you follow me on Facebook you probably already know this, but I’ve been on a quest to lose some weight. A lot of weight. Since…

Editor January 24, 2016

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Democracy Tree: Michigan’s No. 1 budget priority should be Flint

While politicians, pundits, candidates, and the media yammer on and on about how best to help Flint, and who may or may not be doing enough — now would be…

Editor January 22, 2016

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Army Bob: Where do candidates stand on eminent domain issue?

Let’s discuss eminent domain, a topic on which everyone has an unyielding stand on one way or the other. To understand the issue, we need to dwell on a bit…

Editor January 21, 2016

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Yes It Is, It’s True: My cowardice and the tragic tale of Pat Buensch

Patricia Ann Buensch died this past week at the age of 68. She passed quietly without much fanfare, but there was a time when she was somewhat famous. Pat was…

Editor January 20, 2016

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Basura: A tragic U.S. Navy WWII tale of a swimming monkey

My dad was in the Navy in World War II, serving on a tanker ship, carrying fuel. I can't remember if he said that they were carrying oil or gasoline;…

Editor January 20, 2016

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Ranger Rick: Let’s talk about problem’s causes, not symptoms

The candidates in the presidential sweepstakes race talk, talk, talk all day long to the media about the symptoms of what is wrong with the country’s present state of politics…

Editor January 19, 2016

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Monday Moanin’: Your high school history teacher got it all wrong

By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of its bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons…

Editor January 17, 2016

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Barry Hastings: U.S. gun violence is result of GOP/NRA greed

"Obama's executive pen crosses out cooperation" read the untruthful headline of an editorial purported to be by Fred Jacobs, publisher of the Jan. 7 edition of the Hastings Banner. (I…

Editor January 17, 2016