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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…
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Ranger Rick: About real and imagined gas vapors, and hype
The recent BP (the hated British Petroleum of Gulf of Mexico oil spill fame) gas refinery breakdown in Indiana caused a spike in gas prices – pushing gas to high…
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Monday Moanin: About testing — ‘I don’t know, you tell me’
By Jeff Salisbury JeffreyLSalisbury@gmail.com Following the recent release of test-taker data for the state’s 2015 high school grads by American College Test and the State of Michigan, those who follow…
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The Muck Starts Here: Falling stars and kind words for a great man
by Barry Hastings It does my heart good to see South Carolina's "military expert" and racist U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham facing ignominious withdrawal from the GOP primacy races. I could…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Excoriated for singing ‘God Bless America’ at GVSU
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the unpublished book, “Breadcrusts,” co-written by James G. Wasserman and David T. Young. It recounts the events of Jan. 22, 1969, at…