http://www.record-eagle.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:55:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_311065812.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_311065812.html Moralists assert government health care is a right. Constitutionalists ask, "What is the basis for the right?" The Declaration of Independence provides the philosophical basis for the existence of a free people. It establishes that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable and endowed to the people by their Creator. The Constitution establishes the existence and the structure of a government to secure these rights consistent with the consent of the governed, "We the People." Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:50:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_310075042.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_310075042.html By JOE VANDERMEULEN: Charter will take the clean, high-value bandwidth occupied by our region's only Public Access Television station (Up North 2) and Northwestern Michigan College's Educational Access station (Channel 13) and exchange it for unused, interference-plagued bandwidth at channels 96 and 97. Surely, Charter owes this community something better than what we're now getting. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:55:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_309065541.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_309065541.html By KEN WINTER: A former Lansing-based state government reporter recently observed that state government coverage by Michigan's largest news organizations continues to diminish. Some important stories hardly surface in today's news because news organizations have dramatically reduced newsroom staffs. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:50:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_308075010.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_308075010.html By SHERRI SOLOMON: While the financial impact of repealing Public Act No. 248 can be measured, it is impossible to quantify the cost of human suffering for those wanting, yet denied resources to maintain a healthy life. Since the recession began, we are seeing an increase in activity for people dealing with the pressure of job loss, home foreclosures and lost health insurance. Now is not the time for politicians to take away access to medications. We simply can't afford it. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:25:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_307072657.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_307072657.html By TIM RANSBERGER: As the world moves from the old analog world to digital technology, most cable companies, including Charter, are carrying the over-the-air digital signals transmitted by local broadcasters and duplicating that signal into analog formats that can be viewed on older TV sets. We do that while also staying on the cutting edge of new digital technology. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:55:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_304165539.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_304165539.html In response to the Record-Eagle's editorial of Oct. 9, I take this opportunity to commend the paper for continuing to question and challenge the supposedly objective "public process" structured to "determine the fate of the Boardman River Dams." Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:25:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_303072721.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_303072721.html By PORTER ABBOTT: There are words that are like bombs -- words like capitalism, communism, fascism, Islam. They have perfectly good meanings, but are so loaded they can blow up reasonable discourse. As word-bombs, they all have the same meaning: Be Scared, Don't Think (BSDT). Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_300080044.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_300080044.html By DUNCAN CAMPBELL: Each of us has a favorite stream, river, lake or Great Lake -- the inland seas that make Michigan one of the world's most easily identifiable places. As the stewards of the world's largest fresh water reservoir, we know there is no pure Michigan without pure water. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:55:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_296205536.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_296205536.html The correlation between what we have here in Traverse City and Anytown, USA, is not only the perception of safety but in fact the reality of public safety that we have achieved here. This, however, was not accomplished by accident but rather by an aggressive, proactive versus reactive police department. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:40:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_296074039.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_296074039.html By JANICE BENSON: There's lots of talk about the abundant apple crop this year. And it appears the common message is this: too many apples. I don't know about you, but something about that just doesn't sit right. With all of the labor that goes into producing a crop, aren't farmers supposed to rejoice when everything goes well -- when they have a beautiful, juicy, bumper crop? Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:50:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_294075031.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_294075031.html By DAVE BARRONS: For more than 30 years I have studied weather and climate, and I believe human activity is upsetting our planet's well-balanced, natural systems. This is not a blind belief in some quasi-religious or ideological position. It is a matter of the preponderance of evidence. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:10:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_293071021.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_293071021.html By STEVEN FRANCIS: The freedom to publicly speak about, for, or against, any and all conceptions of God or gods must be carefully protected against slow erosion through threats of violence by militant groups, government-imposed speech codes, and anti-religious, mainly anti-Christian, regulations in educational and civic settings. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:35:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_289073513.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_289073513.html By MARILYN WARBURTON: Recently I read in a local publication: "In 78 percent of families where a child dies, a marital separation or divorce occurs within one year of the death." But people we know who had suffered a child's death had managed to keep their marriages intact; we did also. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:55:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_287075642.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_287075642.html By PAT LEWALLEN: Children's Advocacy Centers are community based, child-focused and child- friendly facilities where representatives from many disciplines meet to discuss and make decisions about investigation, treatment and prosecution of child abuse cases. The primary goal of all such centers is to ensure that children are not further victimized by the intervention systems designed to protect them. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:20:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_282072058.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_282072058.html By BRADLEY SPENCER: Filmmaker Michael Moore is our songbird in the mine. His new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," is his clarion call -- a call to activism -- a call to fight the thing that is shriveling our democracy, suborning our congressmen, tearing at the very heart of our once-great country, and turning our "good life" into a nightmare of the 1930s all over again.