
83-year-old Alice LaDuke of Potterville has entered a new phase in her protest against the 600 percent surcharge Auto-Owners added to her homeowner’s policy. She calls it “Road Sign 1,” which suggests its only the beginning.
She planted this sign, which measures about 2 feet by 5 feet, on her front lawn.
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The subject of Kendra Northrup’s email to me: “McDonald’s doesn’t like animals.” But all you have to do is look at the menu to know that’s not true.
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Jack Nicholson as “the old man”? Ralphie in “Iron Man”? What you may not know about “A Christmas Story.”
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What possesses people in positions of authority to say/post/blog these things?
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Surrendering to bigots, Lowe’s pulled its ads from a reality TV show about American Muslims — and will, no doubt, live to regret that decision.
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Is presidential candidate Rick Santorum the last guy on earth to understand the connection between cheap food and obesity?
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Tim Colonnese of Haslett found one.
“In the wonderful world of professional sports,” Colonnese wrote, “we read numerous accounts of the boorish, the selfish and, in the recent NBA strike, the poor millionaires (players) versus the poorer billionaires (owners). But last week, my wife and I witnessed something that truly stunned us.”
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Now that the Occupy Lansing folks are literally folding their tents for the season, let us congratulate both the occupiers and the occupied on a successful run.
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