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.
The Federal Communications Commission passed a rule last week that banned exclusive contracts between cable providers and apartment building owners.
No matter which side of the aisle you are on, there are few Americans who feel the best leaders are the ones who are secretive, inaccessible and who waver on the issues.
I am glad that some government agency has finally stepped in to stop the property owner and cable company dictatorship that has plagued us for so long.
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.
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.
Four students and I attended the East Lansing City Council meeting to listen and voice our opinions about the proposed Meijer gas station on the corner of West Lake Lansing Road and Marfitt Road.
After reading Jessica Byrom’s letter titled Only legally married couples deserve benefits (SN 11/5), I was completely appalled.
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.
There probably aren’t many people — if any — who enjoy phone calls from telemarketers. The calls always seem to come at a bad time and usually they’re pushing a product on us that we just don’t want.
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.
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?
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.
“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.
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.
I am writing in response to the recent article MSU right-wing groups accused of anti-discrimination violation (SN 11/6). A claim that an organization on campus has violated the MSU anti-discrimination policy should be a very serious situation.
The push for the discontinuation of domestic partner benefits is a display of bigotry and ignorance by the people of Michigan. To infer that domestic partner benefits should not be allowed to homosexuals, as they somehow pose a threat to marriage and will ultimately destroy this country, is unjust and unfounded.
If inflatable spears were real weapons, there would’ve been a bloody mess last Saturday at Spartan Stadium. And Michigan fans wouldn’t have been the only targets.
I was shocked to read Mark Dantonio’s response to how the Michigan football team handled itself after beating MSU in With Dantonio, MSU, U-M will become rivalry (SN 11/6).
After reading Jessica Byrom’s letter to the editor titled Only legally married couples deserve benefits (SN 11/5), I felt compelled to respond.