As a film student at MSU when I heard about the Michigan Filming Incentive, I was intrigued. I’ve read a lot about it, including the article written for The New York Times, “States’ Film Production Incentives Cause Jitters.” Let me first start by saying that I’ve lived in Michigan for 19 years, my whole life.
Start your engines, Detroit, but don’t forget to plug in your car overnight. The Big Three auto companies unveiled several electric concept cars at the 2009 North American International Auto Show as the car manufacturers attempt to keep their collective heads above water.
On Jan. 5, while most Americans traveled to work for the first official business day of 2009, some General Motors Corp. employees spent what should have been their first day back to work at home as part of the mandatory vacation time decided by the company.
I am writing in response to David Switzer’s letter of opinion Funding parks, preserves best way to maintain Mich. (SN 12/4).
You’re sitting down to take a final and stressed out of your mind as you receive the test booklet. You flip it open and staring right at you is an ad announcing that this exam is brought to you by Company X.
President-elect Barack Obama vowed to close Guantanamo Bay, but some major newspapers and politicians say the situation is a lot more complicated.
So here we are approaching the end of another semester at MSU. As I walk around campus, I can feel the stress and anxiety building. I can hear the tension in my friends’ voices and see the worry on their faces. Finals week certainly is important.
I am writing in response to the column Hunting maintains natural beauty (SN 12/2). In the column, the author appears to be arguing that hunters somehow protect animals, and hunting has a positive impact on them.
One of the more unfortunate side effects of the election of Barack Obama as president has been a rise in prejudice hate crimes across the nation. These incidents have ranged from the expected name-calling to nooses being hung to a store in Michigan flying a flag upside down — the international signal for distress — the day after Obama was elected.
The National Bureau of Economic Research made official Monday what many have known to be a fact for a while: The U.S. is in a recession. No duh, right? What many people fail to grasp is that the nature of a recession is such that it can’t be determined that we’re in one until we’re well into one. Thus, the announcement.
It’s been less than a year since the end of the last major entertainment strike, but once again Hollywood is rampaging right for the edge of the cliff, ready to do its best “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” impression. Or “Thelma & Louise,” to be politically correct. This time, it’s the actors — not the writers — who have begun threatening a strike.
MSU is keen to the economic troubles students and their families are facing, but it must be aware that such woes have a long life span.
I was very excited for awhile that there seemed to be a lively debate about LBGT issues going on in The State News.
This year or early next year, the MSU Board of Trustees could consider contracting provisions that are blatantly discriminatory.
It is undeniable that Michigan is a place of great natural beauty, and seemingly endless landscapes are something that most residents treasure.
It seems like an eon ago that President-elect Barack Obama, that mighty vanquisher of the “same old Washington,” was merely an upstart junior senator, taking on the Clinton political juggernaut. The choice back then was clear — a vote for Obama was a vote for the future, whereas support for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was a vote for the past.
It’s time to reconsider “Shop ‘til you drop.” On Black Friday — the day retailers often see their bottom lines climb out from the negative — shoppers often congregate outside their bastions of retail religion for hours upon hours in the late-fall cold. They leave their Thanksgiving dinners early or skip them altogether.
No one can deny that our current political system is plagued by a vicious partisanship that is threatening to tear this country apart. But what else is to be expected when subjective moral values are used as the basis for public policy?
In response to Dan Faas’ column, Love drives same-sex marriage fight (SN 11/24), I would like to lend my enthusiastic support to him. He is a model of Christian charity, as well as orthodoxy: a rare combination these days.