As you pull into a gas station these days with a car full of salt-encrusted windows, what are the odds you’ll find a working squeegee and windshield washer in a liquid form?
I’d say 50-50, and sinking fast.
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As a library promotion (www.geekthelibrary.org), the folks at the East Lansing branch want to put my mug on a local billboard, but only if I’m willing to declare what I “geek” (feel passionate about).
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Tell me this: If Gov. Rick Snyder is supposed to be the man to give us the spoonful of brutal honesty we truly need, why is he reluctant to call his proposed tax on pensions a tax increase?
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The way Sen. Rick Jones tells it, his latest brainstorm for shared sacrifice came during Gov. Rick Snyder’s recent budget presentation.
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Why, you might ask, were all the local schools closed on such a sunshiny Tuesday — after a four-day “mid-winter break” for some students and teachers — when the snow pretty much quit falling Monday morning?
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Reader Connie Peters may have a point, but do you think maybe she uses a little too much force?
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Every month Direct TV invites Zenith Pollok to become a customer.
Pollok has been dead for a year.
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As I recall, the weather forecasters were scaling back the snow totals expected Sunday — from 3-5 inches, down to 2-4 inches by Saturday night.
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In an anonymous letter I got Friday, a reader boasted that his/her daughter was a “Bridge Card violator” — with a cause.
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Contemplating a weekend field trip to FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek — a junket spearheaded by the mater familias — I phoned the casino to see if they had wheelchairs available.
Silly question.
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