Monday, September 23, 2024

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Commentary

COMMENTARY

Powerhouse Gym move is unfair to customers

If you are planning to work off the fat from mom’s fresh holiday cookies, the opportunity will be a little farther away than you think. In fact, you might burn more fat walking to the new Powerhouse Gym location than actually exercising there.

COMMENTARY

Cab drivers must be responsible

From party to party we hopped. The gusting winds swirling in East Lansing that night — my very first night as a college student — had blown my buddies and I square across the city.

COMMENTARY

Plastic bags bad for environment

Consumer waste comes in all shapes and sizes, but perhaps the most damaging has come from a generally unnoticed source — plastic shopping bags. According to GOOD Magazine, the U.S. uses 60,000 plastic bags every five seconds, which adds up to some heavy environmental consequences.

COMMENTARY

Venezuelan vote a victory for all

This week, the best editorial opinion in any newspaper on the Hugo Chávez election defeat was in The State News. I simultaneously want to praise my fellow college students and chastise our mainstream media “big brothers” for focusing attention on far more parochial issues of the day.

COMMENTARY

Sex scandals rock GOP leaders

Hypocrisy and American politics go hand in hand. The process of superficially pleasing a diverse and disparate constituency, while stealthily prioritizing the interests of wealthy campaign donors, necessarily creates an atmosphere of duplicitous insincerity.

COMMENTARY

Icy, snowy sidewalk fines expensive, necessary

The first snow of the season has fallen, and it’s likely a few people have as well. Hours of raining sleet and wet snow during the weekend blanketed sidewalks with slush and ice — especially in residential areas, where many renters and homeowners are responsible for shoveling snow and salting walkways around their houses or apartments.