Posts Tagged ‘district’

Every vote counts!

August 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Think your vote doesn’t count?  Look at this: COUNTY  TOTAL BY COUNTY Jason Allen  Dan Benishek      01 ALCONA 2,052 559 545 54% 02 ALGER 1,859 527 469 54% 04 ALPENA 4,912 1,293 1,424 55% 05 ANTRIM 5,547 2,549 910 62% 06 ARENAC 2,089 498 450 45% 07 BARAGA 1,195 159 497 55% 09 [...]

Let them eat cake?

December 18th, 2007 | No Comments

This is pretty amazing to me: A 10-year-old Florida girl faces felony weapons charges after bringing a small steak knife to school to cut up her lunch, according to a report on WFTV.com. Thinking this story was blown out of proportion or something, I read on: “She did not use it inappropriately. She did not [...]

It’s the economy, stupid

October 17th, 2006 | 3 Comments

From MSNBC: On a long list of issues, including Iraq and “ethics/corruption,” 23 percent cited the economy as their top concern, up from 17 percent in May. I have been the firm believer that all politics is local. it’s not my idea, but I sure do believe it. I have said so repeatedly. I listed [...]