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Bait And Twitch Vice Magazine Suicide Glamour And Not Staying Quiet
Magazine unveiled a fashion spread featuring images based on famous women writers who killed themselves. To call it merely tasteless would be to understate how calculated it was as well as how revolting it was -- it literally created an image based on a real writer who really hanged herself with a pair of stockings, and then it told you where to buy the stockings. And because it was ...
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Is Lansing serving the people
Readers are disappointed that state Sen. Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, abandoned talks on road and education funding. (Dale G. Young/The Detroit ...
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Wanted Kids with manners
Illustration by Donna Grethen Summertime brings us parents into much closer contact with the kids in our children’s’ lives. Play times that normally happen during the school day or in after-school programs are now front and center. I take a hands off approach to choosing my son’s friends. We talk about the need for honest, supportive friends. He can spot a bully a mile off. And ...
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Rutherford appeal
["Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal of $1 verdict in SPD case," NW Tuesday, June 18.] Is security worth more than the $50,000 they seek? Daily, I am bewildered as to why people on the street seem unconcerned about illegal activity around them. Could it be because of how Rutherford's attorneys and the court system handled this ...
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Boeing considers moving parts of business to South Carolina
["Editorial: The value of Boeing's Puget Sound workers," Opinion, June 18.] The editorial board does the public a disservice by using simplistic reasoning. The attraction of states such as South Carolina is much more complex. Workers in South Carolina are free to organize; however, they don't have to join labor unions, depriving these unions of coerced money to influence ...
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Marijuana pesticides and mold
Here is a study from Cannabinoids, 2006, by Arno Hazekamp of Leiden University, the Netherlands . The study compared samples from the unregulated coffee-house trade with official Dutch medical marijuana. The coffeshop marijuana had most of the market because it was cheaper, and some users liked it better. But it was also contaminated with bacteria and mold, so that the regulated cannabis was ...
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Giving up on Mastros and still digging for Hoffa
Searching for Hoffa in Oakland Township, Mich.(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) The U.S. Department of Justice has a curious set of priorities. In the wake of the nation's most serious economic collapse in decades, the federal government is giving up on pursuit of a Seattle businessman suspected of bankruptcy fraud. Yet the FBI still can find the resources and sustain the inclination to search for ...
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Graham Illegals net Americans’ jobs with amnesty
Hey, you - the guy with a real job. You know, a "make things/break things/get your hands dirty" job?Here’s what the political class now pushing immigration amnesty thinks of you:"There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just ...
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Tick Tock Make The Serve Pitch Putt Or Shot
who swallowed a clock and shadows a terrified Capt. Hook. Somebody has to scare athletes into playing faster. In baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowwwwwwly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. The pretentious preparation is interminable. In baseball, the pitcher holds the ball, pondering what to throw as if his decision -- a two-seamer or breaking ball -- would ...
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James Clapper’s ‘least untruthful’ answer
Ron Wyden doesn't want to call the director of national intelligence a liar.The Oregon Democrat is too seasoned a politician for that -- and James Clapper's self-assessment, that he answered in the "least untruthful manner" when the senator asked whether the National Security Agency was collecting data about millions of Americans, speaks for itself."No, sir . . . not ...
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Heartfelt thank you from Chanse’s family
Heartfelt thank you from Chanse's familyThe loss of our beautiful boy Chanse Drew was the epitome of sadness and pain for our family. At this time we would like to extend our heartfelt thank you for all the calls, visits and acts of compassion to help us in this most tragic moment. We would like to extend a special thank you to those of you that donated to the Chanse Drew Benefit Fund. We ...
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Tough job facing Colorados new prison chief
Rick Raemisch was named head of the Colorado Department of Corrections last week. (Denver Post file) ( | ) Rick Raemisch, the incoming director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, has a tough job ahead.The former head of the Wisconsin prison system says he took the job because of, not in spite of, the death of Tom Clements, the corrections director believed to have been shot to death by ...
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An open look at killing of Lakewood police officer
Lakewood Police officer James Davies was shot and killed by another officer on Nov. 9, 2012. For cops, it doesn't get a whole lot worse than accidentally shooting and killing one of your own.Tragically, that's exactly what happened in Lakewood seven months ago during a tense hunt for an armed suspect.In response, the Lakewood Police Department opted to commission ...
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A Supreme Court victory for simplifying voting
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a reading of election law used by Secretary of State Ruth Johnson (in red), which vindicated Gov. Rick Snyder's veto of Johnson's effort to add to the voter registration process. (Dale G. Young/The Detroit ...
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Bond issue too broad costly
The Farmington Public School District has a $222 million bond proposal that looks great on paper, and a website full of information that is fashioned to convince residents to ...
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A Kings dream not yet realized
Anniversaries remind us of how far we have come and how far we still have to go. This weekend an important milestone is coming up in Detroit, and I urge everyone to think about what it means to the city, our state and our nation. Some people do not realize that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the first version of his ...
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Water Detroits regional jewel
Metro Detroit relies on Detroit's water system. Some readers would like to see the control of that system regionalized. (Ricardo Thomas/The Detroit ...
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My view People deserve rights at our borders
The policies and practices of our harsh immigration system violate human rights: basic respect, dignity, safety and needs of ...
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Letters Act on Alzheimers
Alzheimer's disease is becoming the most expensive malady in the country. Coupled with the numbers in the baby boom generation, the costs of treating it will skyrocket at a rate rarely occurring in chronic diseases. Utah will have the highest per capita prevalence increase of Alzheimer's among all states — a 127 percent increase by 2025. As a result, the "Health Outcomes, ...
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In our opinion New leader in Iran but changes not likely to come overnight
Hassan Rowhani isn't likely to dramatically change the face of Iran overnight. While his campaign speeches promised better relations with the West, he has set strict conditions for those relations, including for the United States to back away from efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ...
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Stalking The Elusive Worthy Apricot
Cheryl's Apricot Fragipane Galette . Apricots are the finest of summer's fruits, with dense, juicy flesh and delicate, velvety skins. Piled in baskets in farmers market stalls, they seem to glow in the early morning light. The prettiest ones have a celestial blush and a sweet, floral fragrance. That's why it is so disheartening when you bite into one only to find it ...
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Ugly EBT truth wins out
A House oversight committee got an earful from state Auditor Suzanne Bump about the apparent inability - or unwillingness - of Patrick administration welfare officials to do the most routine of checks to fight fraud in the EBT program.The governor continued - as recently as yesterday - to insist that there was an element of "exaggeration" in the reporting on claims that 1,164 ...
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Pols U.S. workers ‘can’t cut it’
Hey, you - the guy with a real job. You know, a "make things/break things/get your hands dirty" job?Here’s what the political class now pushing immigration amnesty thinks of you:"There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just ...
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Snowden’s a fool for ideas but unlikely spy
Last, there’s the nature of the disclosures. The initial story broke at precisely the moment President Obama was meeting with the new Chinese president, undermining Obama’s effort to press the issue of Chinese hacking (a practice Snowden seems mysteriously indifferent to). Soon thereafter, Snowden went from "whistle-blowing" on alleged domestic data-mining abuses to leaking ...
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June 19 Letters To the Editor
Abolish the BRAThe Boston Redevelopment Authority cannot be improved; it cannot be made more transparent or responsive; it cannot be broken up to separate planning and development ("BRA’s independence has eroded, critics say," June 7). It was created and structured to be exactly what it is and do exactly what it does, which has included throwing people off their land. The BRA is ...
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