Time to Revisit 9th Grade Civics

June 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments

When will we stop forcing schools to pass around the begging bowl for necessities?

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Constitutional Roulette

April 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Constitutional Roulette by Tom Shields April 16, 2010 The sheer challenge of collecting a half-million signatures and raising millions of dollars to put a proposal on Michigan’s November ballot has already done its weeding job. Michigan voters will not entertain anti-mining or the anti-insurance job proposals this year. And, unless proponents of two casino-related proposals [...]

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Roots of State Gridlock Tied to 1961-62 Constitutional Convention

April 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Roots of State Gridlock Tied to 1961-62 Constitutional Convention Con-con politics failed to resolve legislative boundary issues by Dick Olson April 16, 2010 The legislative gridlock gripping Michigan state government has its origins in the failures of our last state constitutional convention in 1961–62. Recent budget breakdowns and reapportionment impasses over the past 40-plus years [...]

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Call for a Constitutional Convention

March 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Call for a Constitutional Convention by Craig Ruff March 16, 2010 I support a state constitutional convention. Whether one will be called is to be decided this November by voters, in accordance with a requirement in the current constitution that the question be raised every 16 years. The existing document admittedly has no fatal flaws. [...]

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I’m Looking for a Lawyer

March 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Hear Rick Cole every Wednesday at 7:35 a.m. (repeated at 7:35 p.m.) with Internet radio host Walt Sorg at the new TalkLansing.net. I’m Looking for a Lawyer by Richard Cole March 16, 2010 I’m looking for a lawyer. Here’s my case. I need help stopping the oath of office from being administered to a future [...]

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