Inaction Fuels Frustration by Gongwer News Service November 20, 2009 When he published his classic novel on the Middle Eastern conflict, “The Little Drummer Girl,” author John LeCarre was accused of being pro-Palestinian by Israelis and pro-Israeli by the Palestinians. How could one choose a side, LeCarre asked, when both sides are right? So it [...]
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Was 19th the Game Changer? by Tom Shields November 16, 2009 Driving past Lansing’s Hart-Kennedy House — home of the Michigan Democratic Party — you can just make out the figure of Marty Griffin, pinned to the clothes line, left hanging out to dry. The 19th District special election had all the makings of a [...]
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Budget Aftermath: Signs, Portents and Guns by Gongwer News Service November 6, 2009 Signs and portents and guns, and all of them part of the state of affairs in the state these few days after Governor Jennifer Granholm signed the final budget bills for 2009-10 — which, as everyone concludes, finalized nothing. There are hopeful [...]
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