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Dickering Over Dillon

Today, the West Shore Community College Board of Trustees met at four o'clock to talk things over with their attorney, J. Patrick White of…

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47 Nov 19, 2014
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Irony Strikes Twice in Hart Fire

First Irony Chris Arquette was at Mason-Oceana County 911 doing what most new firefighters do a lot of: train.  Arquette had recently join…

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1 Nov 18, 2014
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Open Meetings Act Set to Meet 21st Century Standards?

  The Open Meetings Act (OMA) was initially passed by most state legislatures just after the Watergate fiasco exposed the importance of tr…

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2 Nov 16, 2014
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Wisconsin Wind Turbines Declared Health Hazard

A small wind farm in Wisconsin, one-seventh of the size of Mason County's Lake Wind Energy Park has been declared a human health hazard by…

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2 Nov 15, 2014
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Gas Prices Go Down, Michigan Senate Votes for Gas Taxes to Go Up, Up, Up

 Earlier this year in June, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and a Republican-led legislature foreshadowed a potential raising of the states g…

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1 Nov 15, 2014
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Michigan Defense of Marriage Act Gets Affirmed in Federal Appeals Court

 The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned a March ruling from a federal judge who found Michigan's Defense of Marriage…

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14 Nov 12, 2014
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Property Rights Under Assault by Government-Corporate Partnerships

Background:  Kelo Sets Bad Precedent  Nine years after the Supreme Court’s Kelo v New London (2005) decision gutted the right of American…

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2 Nov 11, 2014
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Manistee Settles Circuit Court Lawsuit Day After City Attorney Saylor Loses Circuit Judge Election

On November 4, 2014 over 11,000 voters of Benzie and Manistee Counties went to the polls and voted for the 19th Circuit Court Judgeship.  O…

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6 Nov 9, 2014
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Grand Rapids Term Limits Imposed; Mayor in Shock

The simple website set up this year to counteract a popular movement has a simple plea: "Join us.  On November 4, a small group of despe…

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3 Nov 7, 2014
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Voter Disenfranchisement in Ludington November 2014

On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, in an otherwise quiet election cycle where the most interesting race was between two judicial candidates runn…

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12 Nov 7, 2014
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