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Posthumus risky for all of Michigan
I work at the Capitol in Lansing. I watched in pain as Gov. John Engler vetoed revenue sharing July 25.
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Forced Worship
Instead of being a unifier, God stands to divide the United States, at least when it comes to the national motto and the recent Michigan legislation encouraging its placement in state government buildings.
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Huge salaries ridiculous, should be earned
As I sat in my office contemplating the conditions of the world and our country, thinking about the disasters occurring in the Middle East, children kidnapped from across the United States, terror continuously on our minds; I chanced to hear a radio commentator speaking of the horrible possibility of another professional baseball strike.
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Bad medicine
A new study shows the top three programs used to educate and prevent school-age children from using drugs - Drug Abuse Resistance Education; Here’s Looking at You, 2000; and McGruff’s Drug Prevention and Child Protection - are either ineffective or haven’t been sufficiently tested.
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Talking heads on television lousy substitute for actual information
As a dope-fiend for information, I often find my eyes bleeding and my ears aching while desperately seeking grains of worthwhile information from all of the cable news channels.
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Hitting the poles
The time has come again. The candidates have campaigned, the issues have been debated. All that remains is for voters to make their decision. But with Tuesday’s election only being a primary, it may seem as though an individual vote does not matter.
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Hippies, med students and the hip: time to finish list of campus groups
As promised, this week I have composed a second and final part to my “Field Guide to Spartan Cliques.” The first part, published in these pages two weeks ago, stirred up a veritable hornet’s nest of indignant feedback, provided that those hornets are all dead and the nest is in the trash - in other words, nobody wrote me a damn thing.
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SN endorses
With continued budget shortfalls expected in Michigan’s immediate economic future, the decision of who will be the state’s next governor is one voters shouldn’t take lightly.
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Obesity not to be blamed on food
I just read Jacquelyne Froeber’s column regarding the obese man that is trying to sue the fast food places (“ Obesity not the fault of the food chain, everybody knows burgers aren’t health food,” SN 7/29). Froeber was so right and I loved the column.
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High school sports working fine as is
While I understand the State News editorials are opinions of the editorial staff, I would think that the staff would do at least a little research on the topic of the day.
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If Sparty in trouble, many here to help
Just tell us alumni where to send our checks! With such a large alumni base, even if we only sent in $5 each, Sparty would preserved.
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Activism for everyone, best way to make sure good things happen
With a lot of people I know, including myself, activism has been something we’ve sort of stumbled into - a direction we didn’t know we were going to choose until we were already smack in the middle of it. It starts off with something as simple as having an opinion, and the next thing you know, you’re picketing at the state Capitol, demanding some sort of change and the word “now” is usually nearby. People tend to be careful when identifying themselves or others as “activists.” The word has become synonymous with angry, disgruntled, often nonstraight, hippie types, who have nothing better to do than burn flags and chant, “Hell, no!
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Enough, already
The Lansing City Council should get a move on it and approve Wolverine Pipe Line Company’s request to build a gasoline pipe within the city limits.
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Radio fun for developing conversation skills
What would you do if I promised you a column about singing drunks, spaced-out radio station listeners and know-it-alls that would put Bullwinkle J.
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Sloppy Spartan
Current efforts to clean up and repair MSU’s aging Sparty, believed to be the largest free-standing ceramic statue in the world, are necessary and, unfortunately, a regular event.
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Power Play
Lame-duck Gov. John Engler is using what’s left of his political weight in Lansing to grasp onto control of the state government - and trample the rights of the state’s residents in the process. On Thursday, Engler vetoed more than $850 million in state payments to local governments for the 2003 fiscal year, threatening to nearly bankrupt local governments if three November ballot initiatives are approved.
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Obesity not the fault of the food chain, everybody knows burgers arent health food
America is fat. It’s not just my opinion - it’s a saturated fact, and Michigan is ranked as the third highest state with overweight people. The expanding waist problem has emerged into the media’s hungry eyes, thanks to New York resident Caesar Barber, 56, who is suing McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC and Wendy’s for making him obese.
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Level playing field
The debate over the Michigan’s high school girls’ athletics seasons returns to court Thursday as a federal judge plans to rule on a blueprint to end discrimination in interscholastic sports.
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More research to do before writing story
The State News article “City probes housing with survey,” (SN 7/24), contains some serious inaccuracies about the way our co-operative is structured.
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Restricted license
On its face, plans for further restrictions to obtain IDs might seem a logical way to battle terrorism.