Category Archives: Lawyers & Legal Services

Time to rewrite Michigan's Constitution?

December 14, 2006 – 9:42 am

Capitol Reflected by Apocaplops
An article in yesterday's Freep reported the latest on the recommendations by Citizens for Michigan regarding our state's Constitution. Citizens for Michigan is a self-appointed, volunteer group includes the likes of former AG Frank Kelley, former publisher Phil Power, Oakland County CEO L. Brooks Patterson and other former legislators, legal experts, business [...]

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Water, water everywhere … now about those rules

December 5, 2006 – 9:28 am

White River by curlyson
The Muskegon Chronicle is reporting that Nestle (bottlers of Ice Mountain water) is seeking state permission to pump 70 million gallons of spring water annually from the headwaters of two of Michigan's finest trout streams: the White River (a state Natural River) and Pere Marquette River (a federal Wild and Scenic River). [...]

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Protecting Lake Michigan's Shoreline Dunes

November 20, 2006 – 8:25 am

Michigan has laws to regulate development and activity in our geologically unique shoreline dunes. The question for today is: are those laws working?

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We do love our cars: Southeast Michigan

August 4, 2006 – 11:01 am

TheStrip by Hemicuda82 We do love our cars in Michigan, as this photo of the Summer Classic Car Show in Flint demonstrates. For a century the automobile has defined Michigan and now the demise of the auto industry is redefining us. At Absolute Michigan, we're trying very hard to fight past the "we lost a [...]

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Rosa Parks

November 1, 2005 – 3:51 pm

On October 24, 2005, Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," died in Detroit. She had earned that appellation fifty years earlier when she refused to move from her seat on a segregated bus in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama.
It was December 1, 1955. Parks was coming home from a long day as [...]

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