MSU, as you may have heard, will ban all bags — purses, diaper bags, camera cases, seat backs with pockets, etc. — from Spartan Stadium beginning with this fall’s first home game.
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Did you happen to catch Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III speaking - or trying to, anyway - on the local news, about the Burks case, in which 27-year-old Yumar Antonio Burks has been charged in the death of his 6-month-old son?
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Jack Jameson and his ax weren’t having much of an effect on the apple tree stump he was trying to remove one recent day.
But, given the fact that Jameson is 86, and gets around with a walker, you have to give him credit for trying.
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Mark Griffin, president of the Michigan Petroleum Association/Michigan Association of Convenience Stores has an explanation as to why the price of gas can jump as much as two bits in a single day, and it’s thoroughly counter-intuitive.
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Among the many, many, many things I noticed while awash in a sea of young folk for three days in Austin, Texas was this:
Even when they are face to face, they are often not face to face.
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I’ll be on furlough the week of March 14 (and, no, I don’t expect any of you to do for me what one of Joe Rexrode’s blog readers did for him).
Continue reading "It’s the thought that counts" »
As I wrote recently, robin sightings are no proof of winter’s demise — but those gangly birds with the ratchety squawk … well, that’s another story.
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