I hate to see Chrysler file for bankruptcy. I really do. And yet …
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What can Reed Bente do about the supercharged car stereos that rattle windows and shred nerves in south Lansing?
Since employing a shotgun would be illegal, the only other option apparently is to move away.
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What is this — National Telephone Rudeness Week?
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A while back a writer of a letter to the editor complained about a fellow restaurant patron whose catheter urine bag hung, in full view, on the side of her chair.
“I would think,” wrote K. Gallimore of Dimondale, “that, if nothing else at least she, or her husband, could cover it up with a blanket. I also think that the restaurant management should have said something to her about not being sanitary.”
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BATH — Kathy Aldrich swears there’s a correlation between the end of the academic year at MSU and the proliferation of stray cats around her house, near Rose Lake.
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And the Bad-Timing Award goes to ...
Gary Tarrant, who lives on Stoll Road, near DeWitt, couldn’t help but wonder why Consumers Energy picked Earth Day, which was Wednesday, to start cutting down hundreds of trees for a new gas pipeline that happens to run through his property.
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Don’t ridicule the people who get burned by employment scams; instead, condemn those who perpetrate them.
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Rumor has it that moles are in firm control of the earth this spring.
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A nun once told me, in the course of religious education, that if I insisted on tempting gravity by see-sawing on the back two legs of my chair, I surely would fall back one day and split my skull open.
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What’s your position on square butts?
“Disgusting,” writes Nancy Varner.
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