http://www.record-eagle.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_132093559.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_132093559.html The Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards encourages everyone to band together to promote awareness of mental health and developmental disability issues and combat stigma. Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_131095012.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_131095012.html We are Michigan's road and street motorcyclists, and we are at your mercy. Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_130100032.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_130100032.html For the uninsured, lack of access to health care isn't something they have to deal with just one week a year -- it's a year-round struggle to literally stay alive. Michiganders would no doubt be shocked to learn that many of the 1 million residents of our state without access to health care are themselves health care workers. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_129095558.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_129095558.html Type 2 diabetes is one of the most prevalent, dangerous, yet preventable diseases in Michigan. It is estimated that nearly 8 percent of Michigan residents over the age of 18 have this disease, making it the state's sixth leading cause of death. Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_128095103.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_128095103.html Recently the taxes here at the farm increased greatly -- most of the farmers in Leelanau County are facing this. They are taking farms that have always been agricultural and rezoning them 401 Residential, even if the land is a "swamp." But don't try to build there or fence it, because the state Department of Environmental Quality says you can't! Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_127094602.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_127094602.html The fight for equity in school funding is about to get much more difficult as schools around the state that have never experienced the drastic budget cuts to which we have become accustomed, start having to trim their budgets. As evidence of this fight, you need only read a recent forum written by a Birmingham School Board member Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_125095155.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_125095155.html There is no need to re-hash all the machinations about how we ended up with the new Michigan Business Tax (MBT). It's time to focus on how to fix a tax that desperately needs fixing. Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_121095608.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_121095608.html "He died after a long battle with a chronic illness," someone suggested as an obituary for my 46-year-old son, who committed suicide in a New Mexico desert last fall. It was his fifth attempt. While it was essentially accurate, I found it so understated as to be offensive. As his mother and a mental health educator I must expose, not cover up, the invisible disease that took his life. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_120095828.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_120095828.html A recent Traverse City Record-Eagle editorial incorrectly states that Birmingham Schools get $12,303 per student in state funding. That statement is so blatantly incorrect that it's either an exhibition of astonishing ignorance or purposeful manipulation. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_118094116.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_118094116.html When I was a child, my father took me fishing on the Detroit River, where we caught plenty of perch and silver bass, but no whitefish. I might catch one in 2008 because whitefish are reproducing in the Detroit River for the first time since 1916. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:07:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_116100718.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_116100718.html This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. If you have never heard of DARPA, you are not alone. But some of the innovations it has supported are familiar to all of us, and the work they are doing today will shape the way we live tomorrow. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_115095552.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_115095552.html In July 2006, at the age of 56, I became the recipient of a 21-year-old heart. Since my transplant, I have been advocating for organ and tissue donation and became a volunteer area leader with the Gift of Life Michigan Organization. The number of people needing an organ or tissue transplant continues to increase faster than the number of donated organs. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_110094623.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_110094623.html To understand the current situation concerning the retirement health program, we have to go back to 2004, when the new board was elected. These "dragon slayers" had an agenda -- get rid of the retirement health program. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_109100019.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_109100019.html April 22 is the day that symbolizes when women workers finally "get out of the red" and their 2007-2008 earnings finally equal men's earnings from last year alone. Why do women work an extra 113 days to keep pace with men? Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_106093118.html http://www.record-eagle.com/forums/local_story_106093118.html In a recent case meant to control the spread of invasive species from large commercial ships, a California court made a rash decision that could doom recreational boating.