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by Warren Liverance Of late, our legislature and
06:00 am | by Warren Liverance For the majority of my life I have watched, helpless, as the Wizards of Smart and the compassion fascists have experimented with American society and…
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11:20 pm | The New York Times recently published a feature about the 1 Percent. Reporters Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff write: “Now, the colossal gap between the very rich and…
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02:33 pm | by P.D. Lesko MoveOn.org sent out a mass email this afternoon to thousands of members of the group’s Ann Arbor email list. The first sentence of the email…
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01:05 am | by P.D. Lesko This month A2Politico.com becomes a pay-to-view site. Editor & Publisher published a feature recently titled, “How Can Newspapers Convince Content Is Worth Paying For?” I believe…
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09:04 am | by Chris Savage Michigan Rising, the group formerly known as the Committee to Recall Rick Snyder (CRRS), was unsuccessful in its bid to recall Michigan’s governor last year.…
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04:20 pm | by Pete Nicely Herbert Hoover once said, “Nothing is more important than balancing the budget.” As he was saying this, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was…
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06:00 am | by P.D. Lesko In September 2011, former Ann Arbor News reporter Tom Gantert did what he does best: published the truth. In point of fact, writing for Michigan…
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