http://www.record-eagle.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:18:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_166095114.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_166095114.html Attention, women of northern Michigan! A friend of yours passed away last week. You may never have known her, but she had your interests at heart. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:51:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_166095107.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_166095107.html With the Michigan Merit Curriculum now affecting students throughout the state, many parents and teachers have come forward with serious concerns. They question whether this cookie-cutter approach is the best way to give our students the opportunities and options they need. Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_151095621.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_151095621.html The Washington Post says Scott McClellan, before his trumpeted tell-all book dumping on the president he once defended, "was the ultimate Bush loyalist." Now, the former press secretary for George W. Bush is the ultimate Judas. While McClellan seems to have nailed it, why, oh why, when he was resident propagandist, did he not take the honorable course taken by ex-White House Press Secretary Jerry terHorst? Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_148094730.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_148094730.html Currently, your federal government, at great expense, is prosecuting one Geoffrey Nels Fieger, the state's most flamboyant and flamboyantly successful attorney. They say he violated campaign finance laws. Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_145094011.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_145094011.html My wife and I have two boys, 12 and 14. At their age, I mowed yards, $5 a yard. My gardener charges $200 a month. Boys, meet yard work. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:05:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_079094556.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_079094556.html A hundred years from now (maybe longer if John McCain is elected president), when the history of the Iraq war finally is written, students will want to know how KBR Inc. got away with war profiteering. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_076094805.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_076094805.html Hastily passed legislation exempted the Jan. 15 presidential primary voter lists from the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, but allowed the major political parties to have access to voters' names and which party's ballot they took. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_050093112.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_050093112.html Months of economic research to determine the tax rate necessary to fund state government has been completed by top Michigan economists, ballot petition language has been approved by the Board of Canvassers and the circulation of petitions to place the Michigan FairTax proposal on November's ballot has begun. Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_037091535.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_037091535.html I would like to take the opportunity to provide Michigan residents with information about the Michigan Department of Agriculture's requirements for identifying cattle. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_001094515.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_001094515.html I would like to clarify some of the budget issues facing the Department of Natural Resources after reading your editorial, "DNR's short-term funding fix." Last year, we projected that the Game and Fish Protection Fund would have a balance of about $3.8 million on Sept. 30, 2007. We closed the books on Nov. 21, with a fund balance of $10.1 million. Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_364094717.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_364094717.html This was a year when it became perfectly clear to anybody watching closely that the political system is a mess in Michigan. And worse, that no one in power is trying to fix it. Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_363094636.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_363094636.html Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:02:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_359093228.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_359093228.html I've always had the utmost respect for historians, for I have dabbled in the craft enough to gain an appreciation for how rigorous the work is, how time-consuming a method history can be in the hands of trained experts. Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_357093236.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_357093236.html Sean Morrison, the 39-year-old director of the University of Michigan's Center for Stem Cell Biology, is a rarity among scientists. Personable, well-spoken and easygoing, he seems as much at ease with the media as he is in the laboratory. But he must be one of the most frustrated men in the state. By all accounts a brilliant young geneticist, he has the resources of one of the nation's major universities and a background in what is the cutting-edge frontier of biology: stem-cell research. Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_356093022.html http://www.record-eagle.com/opinioncolumns/local_story_356093022.html Remember when cozy family suppers were interrupted by telephone calls from sales types peddling aluminum siding or pushing credit cards or encyclopedias? Such ill-timed disturbances have come to an end since you registered your telephone number on the national Do-Not-Call Registry (DNCR) back in 2003. Or have they? You may be surprised to learn that your quiet, telemarketer-free nights are not quite permanent.