Lobbyists and Legislators

April 5, 2006

Lobbyists have a $51 a month limit per legislator for gifts they can lavish (influence) upon lawmakers. Like all suspect individuals, Michigan’s lobbyists and legislators have found a way around this. Lobbyists have been pooling their funds together to go above the $51 monthly limit. I will not point the blame at just the lobbyists. [...]

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Increase the State’s Marketing Budget?

April 4, 2006

An interesting editorial in the Detroit Free Press makes the case for Michigan to increase it’s marketing budget to gain more tourism dollars. It would be great to see more tourism dollars spent in Michigan as a result of an increased marketing budget. However, I would like to see funding for this to come from [...]

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Gas is Expensive – What Else is New?

April 4, 2006

It used to be that you could count on your local filling station to raise their prices on Friday to catch all of the weekend travelers. Then, Thursday became the chosen day to raise prices. Next, it was Wednesday. I really believe they skipped Tuesday and now the price of gas goes up on Mondays. [...]

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Metro Detroit Traffic Blog

April 3, 2006

Matt Helms of the Detroit Free Press has a Traffic Blog with all of the details and headaches of metro Detroit’s traffic snarls and construction. I checked it out this morning and he had blow-by-blow reports of the traffic backups on I-696, Northwestern Hwy, and Telegraph due to the huge I-696 and Northwestern Highway construction [...]

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Travel by Bus From Detroit to Chicago for $1

April 3, 2006

Later this month, by using megabus.com you will have the chance to purchase a bus ticket for as little as $1 each way from Detroit to Chicago. There is always a catch to all unbelievable deals. Only a handful of these cheap seats will be available on each bus and you will have to purchase [...]

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Don’t Forget to Adjust Your Clocks

March 31, 2006

Yes, it is time once again to wake up to darkness and have an extra hour of light in the evening. You will need to set your clocks forward an hour before you go to bed Saturday night unless you want to stay up and change them at 2a.m. when the time change officially takes [...]

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List of Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes

March 31, 2006

Since tomorrow is April Fool’s Day (beware of the pranks) I thought I would share a link to a website containing the top April Fool’s Day hoaxes/pranks of all time. At Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes you can peruse the hoaxes and chuckle at how gullible some people can be. A brief history of [...]

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U.P. Paper Stops the Presses

March 31, 2006

Bill Westerman, Ironwood Daily Globe press foreman, never had the chance to shout, “Stop the presses!” The motor that runs the presses started up on its own Wednesday and then quit as quickly as it began. The Daily Globe had to use the presses in Ashland to produce Wednesday’s paper since their press could not [...]

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Protesting Detroit Students Arrested

March 30, 2006

32 Mackenzie High School students were arrested or “detained” on Wednesday during a protest of the school’s conditions. About 200 students staged a walkout yesterday afternoon to draw attention to the school’s poor conditions and supposed lack of textbooks. The protest turned ugly with students reportedly began swearing and blocking traffic. The article in the [...]

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Today is Beautiful, go Outside!

March 30, 2006

If you haven’t been outside yet today, you had better get out there now. It is the best day of the year as far as the weather goes. Temperatures are hovering around the 60s (downstate anyway) and there is plenty of sunshine. I was actually able to do some gardening with my 19-month-old son this [...]

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