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Monday Moanin’: Some perspectives about class clown behavior

September 27, 2015

By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com First off, being a child once… and a class clown, I speak from experience. Plus, I was in therapy for several years. Let me just say this: All children act... they act OUT… or they act IN. Only a handful just ride the waves of their...

Yes It Is It’s True: Solving our broken down 2-party election system

September 26, 2015

I’ve been railing against our broken down and “rigged” two-party electoral system, perhaps prompting some readers to ask what a smarty-pants such as I offer for solutions. As a public service to readers, I hereby identify problems and offer my proposals. These are the problems: The state house and senate...

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Army Bob: The tyranny of the big box store is just a myth

September 24, 2015

The "tyranny of big box stores" or mega-stores is a subject increasingly in the news. Indeed, a progressive columnist for this esteemed publication recently waxed eloquently about corporations that demand concessions in the form of roads, intersections, traffic lights and tax breaks from townships, cities and counties. In doing so...

Ranger Rick: An interesting story about 2 different (?) ‘Bills’

September 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton is showing her hand in the game of political poker. Mrs. Clinton is losing support, so what does she do? She pulled a real knee-slapper — pushing for programs for rape victims. This from Mrs. Clinton, of all people! Not that rape is a laughing matter – it...

Democracy Tree: Bill would ban banana for condom use practice

September 21, 2015

by Amy Kerr Hardin Lansing: The good, the bad, and the just plain silly While Michigan’s roads aren’t getting fixed, here’s what Lansing’s been up to. Starting with the silly — The Bananarama Bill Rep. Thomas Hooker (R-77, Byron Township), joined by his social conservative buddies — 9 out...

Monday Moanin’: What parents need to know about financing college

September 20, 2015

By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Dear Parents, Stop worrying about funding your kids' college education. You need to fund your own retirement. Pay off your house and shed all long term debt. Contribute to your tax-deferred retirement savings plan. Then give your adult kids the best gift ever: Move yourselves into...

The Muck Starts Here: What were Bush, Cheney roles in Sept. 11?

September 20, 2015

Here's what happens when you elect right-wing religious nuts to positions of (self-perceived or real) political power and/or influence. At the very time the legislature was catching-on (and catching-up) to the Jamrat and Coarser (and some of it certainly represents "the pot calling the kettle black"), a story broke about...

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Army Bob: A sort of ‘dream’ Sanders-Trump matchup won’t happen

September 19, 2015

Senator Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump, a match-up that probably will never happen. But if it did we could answer a number of questions as to the direction the nation wishes to be taken. Senator Sanders, a self-identified Democratic Socialist, and Mr. Trump, an unapologetic capitalist, would present the most...

Democracy Tree: Are private toll roads coming to Michigan?

September 18, 2015

by Amy Kerr Hardin Now that the Courser-Gamrat scandal has been put to bed, albeit in the signature junior high fashion expected out of Michigan’s 98th Legislature, they can forthwith move on to the larger issue of roads. Columnists across the Great Lakes State are spending their days silently writing...

Yes It Is, It’s True: Gamrat’s song could be ‘The Cat Came Back’

September 17, 2015

The news about ex-State Rep. Cindy Gamrat filing for the seat from which she was expelled prompts a few famous quotations: “They thought she was a goner, but the cat came back, the very next day.” — Children’s camp fire song “How can we miss you when you won’t go...

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