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Democracy Tree: Big box store bullies hurting communities
by Amy Kerr Hardin The 'Dark Store' bait and switch — A corporate scam Big box stores across Michigan are gaming the system on property taxes — threatening the core…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Martin Twp. may be stuck with pot exchange
The more I do the research and think critically about the situation, the more I believe Martin Township is skating on thin ice regarding the marijuana exchange site in Shelbyville.…
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Army Bob: It is racist not to believe that ‘all lives matter’
In this column I have railed against prejudice in all its forms; to prejudge anyone, to judge anyone by the group is just plain wrong. Unfortunately we have politically correct…
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Ranger Rick: Do the science — Mother Earth is starting to cool
President Obama, armed with the speculation of “thousands of scientists” with scientific “consensus” the world is coming to an end because of Global Warming, er, Global Climate Change, or whatever…
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Democracy Tree: Do-nothing legislature’s approval ratings tanking
by Amy Kerr Hardin Blame, only where blame is due As predicted, the dog and pony show known as the Courser-Gamrat Affair is slated to suck all the oxygen out…
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Monday Moanin’: College good investment only if you’re a bank
By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Michigan high school juniors, like my grandson Auston, will be the first to take the SAT college admission standardized test next spring instead of the ACT. The switch,…
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The Muck Starts Here: Brits search for answers 12 years late
It has been six years since British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked civil servant Sir John Chilcot to conduct an investigation into how Britain was led to join us in…
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Yes It Is It’s True: What should we do with sick predators of children?
I watched the 1998 film “Happiness,” which won a lot of acclaim in Europe, but got a cold reception in America. The reason was obvious — the film took up…
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Army Bob: Let’s have open, simple, less bureaucratic government
by Robert M. Traxler I received one of those chain emails, you know the ones with the please forward on the bottom. One of the points in the email was…
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Democracy Tree: It’s time to shut down the Enbridge pipeline
“Water is the blood of our Earth Mother.” – Cecil Pavlat of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians by Amy Kerr Hardin For all those kayaktivists and walkers who are attending…