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The Muck Starts Here: Another ‘no’ voter in May 5 election
By Barry Hastings As of April 8, polls indicate a "no" vote on the sales tax increase the legislature wants you to vote for next month (so they won't have…
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Changing sub teachers provider won’t really solve problem
I hear tell Wayland schools and the other districts in the Allegan Educational Services Agency (AAESA) no longer will hire substitute teachers through Professional Education Services Group of Caledonia. I…
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Army Bob: Equal pay for equal work for women a bogus issue?
Equal pay for equal work has been the law, some could argue, since 1920. Most would agree that the 1963 Equal Pay Law passed by Congress and then signed by…
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Ranger Rick: Calling it whatever you want doesn’t make it so
When I was a young man, 14 or 15 years old (this would be mid-sixties), an old man told me I would see and experience things in my lifetime that…
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Monday moan: All I know is what I’ve been reading on line
By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net "Well, what shall I talk about? I ain't got anything funny to say. All I know is what I read in the papers." – Will Rogers…
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The Muck Starts Here: Skeptical about past, present and future
by Barry Hastings Call me Jeremiah. . ., 'cause I'm skeptical about the past, the present and the future. The past because I suspect our national intelligence, military, and…
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Democracy Tree: Aramark employee canned for whistleblowing
“Aramark did not fire the problem, Aramark fired the employee that was reporting the problems they failed to fix.” — Jon Costa, Aramark whistleblower Last year, Democracy Tree reported on…
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Army Bob: Bergdahl not a smoking gun, but a smoking Howitzer
The report Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been read court martial charges tells only a part of the story. Article 85 (Desertion) is an intent crime the main burden of proof…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: I was workin’ for da man every night and day
I was introduced to the disturbing prevailing modern relationship between management and labor when I left the Albion Evening Recorder in 1984, when the small daily newspaper began to struggle…
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Democracy Tree: State legislator tries to fight dog discrimination
by Amy Kerr Hardin It happened quietly late last week. Republican Senator David B. Robertson (R-14) introduced a piece of legislation that would prohibit Michigan municipalities from discriminating against certain…