Here’s something you don’t see every day: a letter from a prison inmate complaining that inmates are treated too well.
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I’m pretty sure Steve Harry’s tongue was planted in his cheek when he asked, in an e-mail to me:
“What? We’re not supposed to use our Bridge Cards for lottery tickets? The Lottery spends $17.6 million a year encouraging us to play. We are led to believe it is a good thing. After all, the money goes to the School Aid Fund.
“Maybe the commercials should specify who should and who should not play.”
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Apparently there will be a football game in East Lansing Saturday, and Pat Letts of Ionia, God bless her, hopes all involved will treat each other with respect.
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The press release from State Rep. Brian Calley (R-Portland) came with this breathless headline:
“With budget in ruins, state decides to crack down on illegal baby sitting.”
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Volunteers: Don’t be discouraged. You really are wanted, needed, loved …
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Spurned BoarsHead player Kristine Thatcher is launching her own professional theater. Right here in River City.
IN THIS ECONOMY!
How’s that for a dramatic gesture?
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OKEMOS — Go ahead — try to tell Mary LaPorte that it was an overfed domestic cat she saw in the vacant field across from Soldan’s, on West Grand River Avenue.
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Are we too quick to beat up on the disadvantaged? Do we look for excuses to withhold compassion? Has the current economic hardship in this country spawned a climate of suspicion and scorn toward those who ask for help?
Continue reading "Poor-bashing: The new national pastime?" »
How long would it take you to use all those return-address labels that arrive, unsolicited, in your mail box?
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