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Updated: January/29/2010
Michigan Democrats are out of tune, out of touch
Twelve years ago, the Michigan Democratic Party establishment and its chairman, Mark Brewer, had a great idea. They would anoint a candidate for governor early, Larry Owen, the husband of their top fund-raiser.
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Updated: January/03/2010
Personal details in fatal-crash story went too far
A number of readers were outraged by a story about the tragic death of Sarah Heator, a Bay Park Community Hospital nurse, whose life ended in the wee hours of the morning the day after Christmas. She died, through no fault of her own, after she was struck by a wrong-way driver on I-475.
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Updated: January/01/2010
2010 could be make-or-break year for Michigan
For Michigan, last year began with everyone in the state wondering if Chrysler and General Motors would be around at the end of the year. They were, but with thousands fewer employees, and death sentences for Pontiac, Saab, and Saturn.
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Updated: December/18/2009
Threatened manual of Michigan facts worth keeping
For Michigan, this has been a year of losing things that were deeply interwoven into the fabric of the state's history. General Motors and Chrysler went bankrupt, and though they survived - at least for now - famous automotive models and brands died.
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Updated: December/13/2009
Story about climate change e-mails should have run
David Haase of Whitehouse has a beef with The Blade. Why, he wonders, hasn't the newspaper covered the story about the stolen e-mails from climate-researchers in Great Britain?
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Updated: November/01/2009
No 'cover up' of ACORN on the agenda
Several weeks ago, I wrote about The Blade's coverage of ACORN, the controversial social welfare organization. (The name is actually an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.) I noted that The Blade has run a number of wire stories about the alleged ACORN scandals in recent months.
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Updated: October/30/2009
Michigan Senate aims to ignore people on stem-cell research
A year ago, the most intense campaign in Michigan was not the race for the presidency but the battle over whether to change the state constitution to allow research using stem cells taken from human embryos created in fertility clinics.
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Updated: October/23/2009
Michigan governor balks at her responsibility
LANSING - Here's one small example of how badly the system of government is broken in Michigan. For weeks, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been vigorously complaining about budget cuts to the schools. Then, this week, she shocked everyone.
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Updated: October/16/2009
Jack Kevorkian's legacy was mostly unintended
They are filming a few scenes in Michigan this week for the soon-to-be-shown HBO movie, You Don't Know Jack, about the apostle of assisted suicide, Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
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Updated: October/11/2009
ACORN vanished from Toledo before '08 vote
Even editors and ombudsmen don’t always get everything right the first time. In my last column, three weeks ago, I discussed The Blade’s coverage of the national controversy surrounding ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
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Updated: October/09/2009
Michigan lawmakers need courage, political will
Every economist agrees that Michigan badly needs a better-educated work force. Yet if the Legislature's actions in this year's budget battles are any indication, Lansing seems determined to not only fail to solve that problem, but to make it worse.
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Updated: September/25/2009
Legislature breaks promise to Michigan's students
LANSING - Michigan made a promise to high school students a few years ago. Work hard, do well in school, and the state would provide you with a $4,000 "Michigan Promise Grant" to help with college tuition. This week, the legislature broke that promise.
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Updated: September/20/2009
No, The Blade is not covering up for Obama
Americans have been fighting about politics since before we won our independence. Lately, however, there has been a degree of bizarre nastiness out there unlike any I've ever seen. Far too many critics of President Obama seem to think that he is not misguided but evil, and I am deluged with calls and e-mails attacking The Blade for not sharing in this belief:
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Updated: September/18/2009
War's path leads him to direct Holocaust center
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - Guy Stern, who has been known to generations of students as a warm, witty, and somewhat elfin German professor, started a new career this winter, one he never expected.
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Updated: August/30/2009
Errors on flu vaccine bring quick response from reader
Sometimes, everyone, even the best reporter and editor, has an off day. Brian Harrington, a clinical professor of public health at the University of Toledo, was strongly irritated by a story The Blade ran on Aug. 7, 2009, about the swine influenza A H1N1 vaccine.
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Updated: August/21/2009
Freshman lawmaker takes on billionaire Goliath
You might call it the case of Rashida vs. Goliath. She is the daughter of Palestinian refugees, a 33-year-old Detroiter who is the eldest of 14 kids. Rashida Tlaib's father came here because he got a job working on the line for the Ford Motor Co.
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