I’m getting a bad feeling about those gift cards for the defunct All Seasons Bistro gift cards.
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The story about a strike in India crippling GM’s Delta Township plant fit nicely with a recent e-mail in which Fred Greene of Dansville questions the whole concept of domestic versus foreign:
Continue reading "A foreign concept" »
The facts, as presented to me by certain MSU basketball fans, are as follows:
- Coach Tom Izzo promised the Izzone faithful that if the basketball team won the Big Ten title outright last spring, he would shave his head.
- They won.
- Izzo still has hair.
Continue reading "Why won’t Izzo shave his head?" »
Are you a member of the institution formerly known as Capital Community Credit Union — now a lump in the gullet of DFCU financial?
Continue reading "When financial worlds collide … " »
Rachael Hilliker of Owosso was indignant — “outraged,” actually — to discover over the weekend that an area cider mill was using perfectly good apples as projectiles in a target-practice game.
Continue reading "How do you like these apples?" »
To the 5,000 or so people who have asked me in the past few weeks why lottery revenues aren’t plugging the gaping holes in the state school budget: Be sure to check out Kathleen Lavey’s story in Sunday’s LSJ.
Meanwhile, the condensed version …
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Remember the mysterious brief case scenes in the movie “Pulp Fiction?
That’s what I think of as I follow the story of the bizarre home invasion and robbery on Cogswell Drive Sunday night.
Continue reading "‘Pulp Fiction’ — Lansing style" »
The Sears appliance-repair ad in the phone book says “In your neighborhood,” but the guy on the phone clearly wasn’t in my neighborhood — and probably not even in my hemisphere.
Continue reading "As in ‘global neighborhood’?" »
My recent column about former “Onlooker” Jim Hough’s imminent relocation beneath the bridge raised the perennial question: Are yoopers and trolls born, or made?
Continue reading "Is a troll who moves to Escanaba a ‘trooper,’ or a ‘yoll’?" »
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