It wasn’t too long ago that I sat down and wrote a piece lamenting the lack of letters to the editor. My exact words were, “Unfortunately, no one writes letters anymore. I don’t only mean in the traditional pen-and-paper way, I mean letters to the editor in general.”
Nicknamed “black out in a can,” Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks have been banned from Michigan vendor’s shelves. Like other recent Michigan bans, it does little to address the problems in a community with an entrenched binge drinking culture.
In his response to a recent letter on the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, MSU alumnus Phil Letten makes statements about his view of animal agriculture — statements that are biased, have no factual background and are untrue (“The plight of farm animals extends far beyond antibiotics,” SN 11/3).
As Election Day results dominated the headlines of newspapers across the state of Michigan this week, I couldn’t help but flip directly to the sports section.
The Republican tsunami swelled through Michigan on Tuesday, and cost the Democrats at least one seat on the MSU Board of Trustees. Although we welcome our new Trustees Mitch Lyons and Brian Breslin with a big “Go green, go white,” it’s a shame that Colleen McNamara cannot return for another term
Tuesday’s results should come as a surprise to no one. Republicans firmly are in the driver’s seat in Michigan. If one is a Democrat, Tuesday’s result probably stung more than a little, but really it should be an anger tempered by inevitability. The bad economy had “backlash” written all over it.
For some, asking for help produces the most demeaning and vulnerable feeling possible. It’s difficult to admit we might not know everything, that we aren’t experts in all subjects and to admit fully and publicly that sometimes we simply do not know.
Last week, The State News published a letter written by Dan Schmidt in which he criticized the protestors at the Izzone Campout for “ignor(ing) facts in the attempt to prove a point” (“Protestors at Friday’s Izzone Campout were in the wrong,” SN 10/26).
Joel Sparks did make some good points in his article, “Zoology students’ letter was misleading, accusatory” (SN 11/1). However, he never mentioned why farm animals need antibiotics to stay alive. Virtually all farm animals live out their lives on what are considered factory farms.
I was deeply saddened and shocked to read Mitch Goldsmith’s rail against our local public zoo in Tuesday’s paper (“Vote ‘no’ on zoo millage extension” SN 11/2). As a zoology student — with the goal of becoming a zookeeper in just such a zoo — I hate to think this is the image the general public holds about these facilities.
Arizona’s infamous new immigration law was written and paid for by private prison corporations. The law — SB 1070 — requires law enforcement officials in Arizona to detain anyone who cannot prove his or her citizenship.
The stiffer penalties for those who drive with a blood alcohol content, or BAC, of .17 or above are the kind of distinctions that are important when it comes to how our society deals with DUIs.
Today voters will decide whether to support a millage for Lansing’s Potter Park Zoo. The proposed millage would extend the current Ingham County property tax and raise millions for the local zoo. Without those millions “the Potter Park Zoo cannot survive,” according to Potter Park Zoo Board President Rick Kibbey.
For the most part, this editorial is a summation of the endorsements made by the editorial board throughout the past four issues along with a paragraph that best describes the rationale used for the choice.
In a letter to the editor published Oct. 28 (“Improperly used antibiotics threaten humans and livestock” SN 10/28), a group of Zoology 445 students expressed their thoughts in regards to the use of antibiotics on livestock farms.
As we get closer to Election Day and the rate of political gaffes and scandals peaks, the voting public has been given the opportunity to observe more reasons why no one on the face of this earth ever should vote for a Tea Party member.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder might need to spend some time studying Michigan education issues if he is voted into office on Tuesday, but for the pressing budget and tax issues, he’s ready to go.
There are two open seats on MSU’s Board of Trustees, with two Democratic and two Republican candidates running for election. No matter who wins, the majority of board members will be Democrats. Even if that is the case, MSU needs to be made priority.
Nine college students in the state of Washington ended up in the hospital earlier this month. Allegedly, they were so sick hospital employees believed they had been drugged. But as it turns out, they had not been drugged at all but had been drinking Four Loko — and evidently way too much of it.
These are the first words of an advertisement posted in July by a 31-year-old Grand Rapids nursing student at her church: “I am looking for a Christian.”