Archive for September, 2009

Sep 30 2009

Williams lifts Brighton golf — Her 36 paces Bulldogs past Hartland in division meet

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HARTLAND — Many times in high school golf, when a team’s fourth golfer shoots 50 or over, that team is going to have a hard time winning.

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Sep 30 2009

Local shops need customer support

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It is so sad that another downtown Brighton store, Homespun, is closing. We need to support our downtown businesses. How many times have you walked in this store and loved everything but bought nothing?

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Sep 30 2009

Gretchen Voyle: The trees won’t die by fungus

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Q: I have three maple trees in my yard, and they are big and beautiful. I am really worried about them because there are black, dime-sized round spots on some of the leaves that look like they are leathery and raised above the surface. I scratched and scratched to remove them and tore a hole in the leaf. My neighbor’s maple died last year, and I think this might be the same thing. I must save my trees.

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Sep 30 2009

State workers know pain of sacrifice

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I would like to clarify a quote in a article by reporter Christopher Behnan that was published in the Daily Press & Argus last week (“Response to state worker health revamp is lesson in division,” Sept. 24″).

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Sep 30 2009

Policy should rely on accurate data

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To elaborate on Douglas Beilharz’s Sept. 27 letter to the editor (” ‘Single-payers’ will number 300 million”), the oft-quoted statistic of 47 million uninsured is actually a gross overestimation of the problem, as recent research suggests the number of Americans who cannot currently afford health insurance is much lower.

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Sep 30 2009

Phil Power: Budget not the same as a solid financial plan

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For weeks, news from the state Capitol has been dominated by our lawmakers’ battles to balance the state’s budget before a threatened government shutdown. Unfortunately, they — and the media — have missed what should have been the main point.

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Sep 30 2009

School leaders face challenge on bond plans

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School financing in Michigan has always been complex. Even today, in an era with state-established foundation grants, the amount allocated per child still fluctuates by about $1,000 from one school district to another. In Livingston County, all school districts are at or near the bottom rung, within a few hundred dollars of one another.

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Sep 29 2009

‘Dogs spikers stay perfect in West (with photo gallery)

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HOWELL — As the high school volleyball season goes on, one can spot trends as the season marks the halfway point.

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Sep 29 2009

Brian Dickerson: Tapping Twitter’s unrealized potential

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In a country that recoils at the thought of sinking another dime into prenatal care, crumbling highways or tuition assistance, Twitter — a company that produces nothing, employs approximately 60 people and is still lolling in what the financial press euphemistically describes as its “pre-revenue” phase — is poised to raise $100 million in the next few weeks simply by offering investors a share of its as-yet-unrealized potential.

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Sep 29 2009

Budget frenzy something of a tradition now

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This editorial first appeared in the Lansing State Journal.

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