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  • Detroit takes right step with council

    (11/08/2009)
    Last week voters in Detroit elected a new City Council and passed an initiative to change the way the members of the City Council are elected.

  • Stem cell opponents defying voters' will

    (10/19/2009)
    Last fall Michigan voters approved Proposal 2 which lifted harsh and outdated restrictions on stem cell research and provided for strict ethical guidance.

  • Foreign Olympics show off world

    (10/05/2009)
    Last week despite a buzzer shot by Chicagos dream team starting lineup Michelle and Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey the Windy City lost its bid to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Rio de Janeiro.

  • Diverse voices fuel democracy

    (09/23/2009)
    With the state of Michigan in the middle of a very difficult budget crisis with no clear long-term solution on the horizon news media outlets are full of differing views about what our states leaders must do to secure Michigans financial footing for the future.

  • Leaders must live up to obligations

    (09/07/2009)
    Of the millions of books articles lectures and Web sites that aim to define leadership and how one best demonstrates such there are a few simple themes that emerge time and time again.

  • Detroit can pave future for Mich.

    (07/05/2009)
    Speramus Meliora Resurget Cineribus is the official motto of the city of Detroit. Translated from Latin it means we hope for better things it shall rise from the ashes. I hope it is true that better things will come as the city has been a smoldering fire for years now and we are up to our knees in ash.

  • Michigan blurred under media lens

    (05/25/2009)
    The past few years have obviously been bad ones for Michigan. Thousands of auto-related jobs have been and continue to be eliminated the financial crisis poured salt in our wounds and our largest city is giving Chicago a run for its money in the competition for the most corrupt city government award.

  • Columbine revives questions, lessons

    (04/26/2009)
    Last week marked the 10-year anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton Colo. People across the country marked the solemn date in different ways and survivors remembered the peers they lost on April 20 1999.

  • Run for governor will be quite the race

    (04/19/2009)
    Though its more than 18 months away the 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election has taken its place among the top political stories in our state.With Gov. Jennifer Granholms term limited making her ineligible to run for a third time the race has drawn a broad field of prospective candidates from both parties.

  • MSU helps put Detroit in positive light

    (04/05/2009)
    Leading up to this past weekends Final Four I had the opportunity to speak with a few individuals tasked with making sure the NCAA Tournament is a huge success for Detroit and Michigan.

  • Cure for diabetes finally in sight

    (03/15/2009)
    Almost two years ago I wrote a column in The State News about a few days I spent in Washington D.C. with 150 kids and teens with type 1 diabetes who were advocating for federal funding for a cure.

  • Funding needed for nonprofits

    (03/01/2009)
    The economic recession that has the nation and world reeling right now has been felt in Michigan for most of the past decade. During the past six months in particular news stories have focused on the fate of the automobile manufacturers that we used to call The Big Three.

  • Those who served time deserve chance

    (02/15/2009)
    With last week8217s news that Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos Jr. hired former Detroit mayor and recently released prisoner Kwame Kilpatrick as a salesman for his Texas-based health care software subsidiary Covisint perhaps now is an appropriate time to look at what faces those leaving prison who don8217t have billionaire friends.

  • Engage in stimulus package conversations

    (02/01/2009)
    Over the past few weeks public chatter about the so-called stimulus package has grown louder with each passing day and each minor development as Congress wrestles over the particulars of an enormous federal expenditure. This shouldnt surprise anyone as the public has plenty of reason to be paying attention.

  • Bipartisan leaders essential for Mich.

    (01/25/2009)
    It seems that every incoming president speaks of 8220cleaning up Washington8221 getting rid of 8220politics as usual8221 and 8220reaching across the aisle8221 to move the nation forward. However these promises tend to be limited to words and speeches not sustained effort and actions.

  • Stem cell victory positive for Mich.

    (11/17/2008)
    On Nov. 4 the citizens of Michigan sent the state Legislature the Michigan Catholic Conference and Right to Life Michigan a clear message 8220You won8217t keep us from cures.8221 Despite several popularly supported bills to change the state8217s archaic laws on embryonic stem cell research the state legislature had failed the people of Michigan by not moving these bills to law. So citizens organized collected thousands of petition signatures and got the issue on the ballot as Proposal 2.

  • Proposal 2 could bring new cures

    (10/26/2008)
    In my time as a columnist for this paper I have written on a number of occasions about stem cell research largely focused on embryonic stem cell research and the need for a revision of Michigan8217s severe and archaic laws that restrict it. I also have looked at the issue on a national level such as when I wrote about standing on the Capitol lawn in Washington D.C. with 150 diabetic children singing 8220Promise to Remember Me8221 on the day before President Bush vetoed the bipartisan Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act for a second time.

  • Debates exclude some candidates

    (09/29/2008)
    What is a debate supposed to look like anyway Dictionaries tell us by definition a debate is an argument where different opposing viewpoints are deliberated usually in the format of a formal discussion.

  • Learn about Mich. government now

    (09/18/2008)
    At the beginning of the school year I find myself reflecting on my experience as an undergraduate student at MSU from 2001 to 2005. Though I am now a graduate student at MSU I take my classes in the Detroit area where I work full-time and seldom find myself in East Lansing.

  • Some candidates not represented

    (08/25/2008)
    You might not know it by watching the news on TV or reading a newspaper but there are far more than two candidates running for president this fall.
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