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A not-so-secret research cacheWednesday, March 29, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Pushy Politics - DeVos/Granholm Staffers Narrowly Avoid Hair Pulling
The argument, near as could be determined, did not yield any jobs for Michigan, although it did keep sheriff's deputies briefly occupied. Nor did it resolve the question of whether DeVos or Granholm can claim the title of greater job creator, which the two campaigns are likely to bicker about right up to Election Day while thousands of Michigan households worry more about their next pay or pension checks than about who is their governor.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Feingold's Censure Resolution
An excerpt:
Whereas the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
permits the Government to initiate wiretapping immediately
in emergencies as long as the Government obtains
approval from the court established under section 103 of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50
U.S.C. 1803) within 72 hours of initiating the wiretap;
You can't find time to acquire court approval 72 hours after the fact? That's just lazy.Tuesday, March 21, 2006
By SOPHIA A. McCLENNEN": "Similar to the McCarthy period the right now claims that students are victims of indoctrination. Brainwashing and mind control in classrooms constitute a parent's worst fears. Merely accusing a professor of indoctrination sends shivers throughout public consciousness. It is, without a doubt, the most effective way to cripple the progressive potential of higher ed, because it immediately makes the public suspicious of professors. But let's consider for a moment what such charges presume, especially when they are bundled with the second claim that students need more access to conservative faculty."
Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Poorly educated black men are becoming more disconnected from mainstream society, even as other groups make gains.
But if these stats are any indication, I may be the exception rather than the rule.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Story:Grow Your Own Oil, U.S.
The United States can grow enough fresh biomass -- more than a billion tons each year -- to supplant at least a third of its annual petroleum use, according to an April 2005 study (.pdf) by the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Energy.
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Story:Grow Your Own Oil, U.S.
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Oakland County - Radio system swells water fight
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Here we go...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Besides freedom, a job and a roof over their heads, they all sought respect. But even after all these years, too many have yet to realize that to get respect, you have to give it."
Sunday, March 12, 2006
'We're not preparing our kids for the jobs of the future,' said Bill Thomas, director of governmental relations for Hampton University."
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Update - Council boosts water rates -- but not for city
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"This is an obscene action by the Detroit City Council," said Joe Munem, spokesman for Mayor Mark Steenbergh. "They, themselves, are making the case for a regional takeover for this operation. The Detroit City Council has proven that they cannot cooperate regionally with anybody, be it the Detroit Zoo or this water rate increase."
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Metro area residents whose attention was focused on the zoo issue last week may not have noticed, but the Detroit water department, like the rest of city government, is cruising dangerously close to treacherous financial
shoals.
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Detroit - Water rate hikes irk residents
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It's a rare moment in metro Detroit when city and suburban residents are on the same side, but the mere mention of yet another yearly water rate hike sends residents on both sides of 8 Mile into fits.
Macomb County - Limit on sex-themed businesses disputed in Warren
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"Here's the council secretary, Queen Latifah, and she doesn't have it on the agenda," Wiecek said Feb. 24 on the city's audio podcast, "Warren Town Talk." "What are her motives? Is she trying to do a friend a favor?"
Wiecek said at the Feb. 28 meeting that he didn't mean anything derogatory by calling Vogt "Queen Latifah" and said "she's a humorous person."
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"Failure to achieve health benefit and pay concessions from the city's unionized workers has caused much of this year's shortfall. That's no surprise since the unions have said all along that there was 'absolutely zero chance' they'd agree to taking pay cuts and picking up a big increase in insurance costs."
Monday, March 06, 2006
Campus clash on cartoon riots simply juvenile
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Wayne-County - Coleman Young's son throws hat into political arena
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"Young said he legally changed his name at the request of his father, who died in 1997.
"Wherever I've been I've always been Coleman A. Young Jr.," he said."
Editorials - Patterson serves region well as a human lightning rod
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"His battles with Detroit began with former Mayor Coleman Young, about whom Patterson has mixed recollections.
'His preoccupation with righting (racial) wrongs kept him from some important issues of economic development,' Patterson recalls. But he says 'Coleman's death left a huge leadership void. That council has a cast of characters eating their young, and they're damaging the city and the region.'
Patterson also says Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is beginning to repair the damage.
'He's got untapped potential, and I think he's a different mayor today after he almost lost the election,' Patterson told me. 'Kwame's star is on the ascendancy and someday, he may be recognized as the heir apparent to the rule of Coleman the first.'"
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
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"How we all reacted to the zoo crisis illustrated, more than anything else
in our recent history, what is in our souls, deep down".
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