As the Nov. 7 elections draw near and the gubernatorial debates rage on, a lot of well-informed and constructive citizens are debating and thinking about this year's issues and candidates.
What a shame that the young men of the MSU football team, with their talent, spirit and optimism, come out onto the field looking flat, uninspired and unenthusiastic.
Let's see … The football team struggled against Idaho, played just good enough against Eastern Michigan, uncharacteristically well against Pittsburgh, didn't come out of the locker room for the second half of the Notre Dame game and embarrassed themselves against Illinois — a team that hasn't beaten the Spartans in nine years or won a conference game since 2004. There are five ways to describe the football program this year: sorrowful, misdirected, inconsistent, tattered and haphazard. Something is beginning to smell at Spartan Stadium.
During the debate, Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm talked about needing to double the number of college graduates to bring a higher group of educated people to Michigan.
In the last few weeks, much controversy has surrounded the inflammatory statements made by Pope Benedict XVI on Sept.
The State News reported that an organization called Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, has sought endorsement from the campus Republican organization for "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" in the story "MSU, U-M plan 'Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day,'" (SN 9/21). There would be a cash prize to zealous students who uncover the one or more students with an "illegal immigrant" sign.
Before boarding a plane, remember to unload your essentials into the little plastic tray at the security checkpoint so officials can ensure a terror-free flight. Shoes?
Tom Keller tuned in and kept a running diary of his impressions of the gubernatorial debate. 8 p.m. — In his opening comments, moderator Tim Skubick says of the night's debate, "There are no rules." I excitedly contemplate the possibilities.
It's pretty ironic that a person, formerly the co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and a prominent backer of legislation that cracks down on online predators and criminalizes child pornography, is now in hot water for allegedly sending inappropriate e-mails to teenage boys. But then again, most of politics is just smoke and mirrors. It would probably seem that former Rep.
Let me start off by saying I have no affiliation to the Young Americans for Freedom or any of its opponents.
Things aren't looking good for the Bush administration. Bob Woodward's third book is out, and it's not quite as glowing as the first two.
On Saturday night after MSU's loss to Illinois, the team that hadn't beat MSU for nine years, head coach John L.
After watching that totally inept second half against Notre Dame, I think it's time the entire university, from the trustees and president on down, realize that John L.
It seems that there is an all-out assault by MSU against the right-wing activist group Young Americans for Freedom for its planned "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day." Rarely have I seen such a vehement response to a group activity.
Fried after a long weekend and even longer week, it was the typical scenario of friends lounging around a living room, exchanging lazy conversation with only half their attention on what was being said and the other half on the TV. Somehow the conversation turned to church, and my friend Jimmy declared, "I don't hate religion.
Saturday was an embarrassing day for MSU as a whole. As if the debacle on the football field was not bad enough, what was going on in the student section was just as bad, if not worse. At any point during the game, you could see a couple of Illini fans in the student section, but no one was sitting within six rows of them because MSU students were throwing so much trash at them. While I'm sure these students from Illinois expected a little bit of harassment, what was going on was completely uncalled-for.
The author of "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It" got something right when he spoke Thursday night at The Peoples Church, 200 W.
Aug. 10, 2006, was the most defining day of my life. That was the day one of my best friends, my mom, passed away from uterine cancer that spread from her uterus to her lungs.
The State News editorial "Board needs more transparency," (SN 9/21), infers that the Sept.
The city of East Lansing is grateful for the wonderful example of community pride put forward by the Community Relations Coalition, or CRC, following the Sept.