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Principles of the middle ground

We, both as Americans and Michiganians, are constantly assailed by extremist partisan rhetoric. This holds true for city council elections just as much as it holds true for national ones. Political polarization seems to be a fact of life.

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Group's lack of transparency inappropriate

Even when MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom officials don’t talk, they make news. This time, they’re remaining mum about how they fund their notoriously controversial speakers, who have included British National Party Chairman Nick Griffin and Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. president and co-founder Chris Simcox.

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Birth control good idea for middle schoolers

When I was the ripe age of 11, what I looked forward to was playing kickball during recess and drinking chocolate milk at lunch. It definitely wasn’t getting my next round of birth control pills, which are now available to middle school students in Maine.

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Supporting Ron Paul is a new fad

I never thought so many of my liberal friends would vote Republican. Ron Paul’s $4.7 million online fundraiser last week proved him an online, if not actual, presidential heavyweight.

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MSU alum upset by lack of upkeep throughout campus

I love and take pride in being an MSU graduate and regularly come back to campus to cheer on the various Spartan teams. But my recent visit left me disappointed. It had nothing to do with the on-the-field and on-the-court results — I can enjoy even a hard-fought loss. I met and shared a tailgate with some great MSU students before the football game.

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City lost opportunity to set example for state environment

I think it’s safe to say that the world as a whole has come to the consensus that pollution is a bad thing. With that being said, could someone please explain to me how it was one of the reasons the East Lansing City Council unanimously rejected Meijer’s proposed green gas station?

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Politicians planting questions not surprising

In what could be a potential blow to the Clinton presidential campaign’s credibility, a Hillary Clinton campaign staffer was caught planting questions during a public question-and-answer session — not once but twice since April.

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Writers should be paid for work

“Grey’s Anatomy.” “The Office.” “Heroes.” These are just a few of our favorite TV shows that may be in reruns within the next few months. Scribes from the Writers Guild of America, or WGA, traded in their pencils and pens for picket signs and megaphones last week, striking against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, for the first time since 1988.

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Welcoming the new E.L. City Council members

The results are in, and we’ve all had a little time to adjust to the changes to the East Lansing City Council. Fresh, new faces will replace an incumbent and the mayor. Nathan Triplett, who received 26.8 percent of the vote, is a legislative aid in the Michigan House of Representatives. At 24 years old, he’ll be the youngest person on the council, and he’s a former MSU student.