Chris Bedford

Providing healthy local foods to school lunch programs can stimulate sustainable economic development, Chris Bedford, co-founder and president of Sweetwater Local Foods Market in Muskegon told people at the Ninth Annual Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference in Grayling last weekend.

29-JAN-08 Map, Dem Primary results, Florida

Source:  Google Maps

"It's like the Grapes of Wrath out there."

Photos by: Celeste Whiting

28-JAN-08 MRSA infection study twisted to stir fears of homosexuality, gay activists warn /Todd A. Heywood

MRSA infection study twisted to stir fears of homosexuality, gay activists warn
Todd A. Heywood

28-JAN-08 State of the Union -- chat with MiMsg

Join us tonight and chat about the SOTU
LoRayne Apo-Joynt

Cuts to preschool program avoided with supplemental budget bill

Cutline:Research shows that children who are provided with a high-quality preschool experience show significant positive developmental improvement, and that’s why parents are fighting for full funding of the Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP). Former Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus reads to young students at a Livingston County elementary school.

Saginaw Wetlands

Nayanquing Point
photo by: Celeste Whiting

26-JAN-08 SC Primary - 09:13 pm Results by County

Results by county, Democratic Primary in South Carolina as of 09:13 pm (source: South Carolina Election Commission)

Slug: Pressure for action on popular smoking ban goes high tech

House panel approves renewable energy requirements

24-JAN-08 Immigration foes say study links illegals and disease, but study's author denies it / Todd Heywood

Immigration foes say study links illegals and disease, but study's author denies it
Todd A. Heywood

24-JAN-08 Local Land Banks Fight Urban Decay / Mary Kane, Washington Independent

Local Land Banks Fight Urban Decay

Q&A With Founder of Flint Land Bank That Saved Homes From Speculator Neglect

by Mary Kane at CIM affiliate WashingtonIndependent.com

Homeland Security in Higher Education

SCOTUS seal

18-JAN-08 611 horsepower biofueled V-12: Detroit auto show's ironic glitter / Alan Fisk

611 horsepower biofueled V-12: Detroit auto show's ironic glitter by: Alan Fisk

18-JAN-08 Ford's EcoBoost engine praised as "green" development / Eartha Jane Melzer

Ford's EcoBoost engine praised as "green" development
Eartha Jane Melzer

Clinton Edwards Obama

ABC News photo

17-JAN-08 B H Moore at DePauw U.

Photo of student Moore

15-JAN-08 Google Map, primary data, Republican candidates

Google Map, primary data, Republican candidates
Source: http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://www.google.com/mapfiles/mapplets/elections/2008/primary/primaries.xml

15-JAN-08 Rosien Towers

Signage, Rosien Towers - home of Precinct 18 polling place

Judy Houts, Clerk of Fife Lake township in Grand Traverse County, reads off the election results in the Michigan primary. Just over 10 percent of registered voters participated.

15-JAN-08 Precinct 13 sign

Saginaw Township Precinct 13

Uncommitted for Gore in Willow Run

15-JAN-08 Map of Michigan and reporting locations

Map showing assigned reporting locations of Fellows for the presidential primary.

Several members of the press corps asked McCain what his placement in the Michigan primary would mean. He said that the significance of the race would be determined by the media.

15-JAN-07 LiveBlog: screensnap of Yahoo! News

Screensnap as captioned

"Climate change is real," McCain said, "water levels are low and getting lower."

"The Great Lakes states only will determine what happens to the water in the Great Lakes."

McCain visited the Detroit Auto Show on Monday night. In Traverse City he told the crowd that Michigan's manufacturing sector saved the world during WWII and that Michigan manufacturing would rise again.

Students from Traverse City West Senior High head back to school.

McCain called the veterans health care system "inadequate" during his speech in Traverse City.
He also said that he would follow Osama bin Laden "to the gates of hell" and that we will see many more casualties from the war in Iraq.

McCain at the Grand Traverse Maritime Academy in Traverse City on the morning of the Michgian primary

kucinich event

Traverse City West High School students (left to right) Nell Cunningham, Michael Zimmerman, Corrina Ulrich and Hannah Stone discuss the '08 presidential election at a Kucinich campaign event at Horizon Books in Traverse City.

Elizabeth Kucinch campaign events Traverse City

Fred Thompson

Primary FAQ

Fwd: 09-JAN-08 Mine Opponents Sue the State / Eartha Jane Melzer

Mine Opponents Sue the State
Eartha Jane Melzer

09-JAN-08 Mine Opponents Sue the State / Eartha Jane Melzer

Mine Opponents Sue the State
Eartha Jane Melzer

Mitt Romney file pics (with snark)

Mitt pic "It Was This Big" -- attribution: www.itchmo.com

Mitt and his Troopers -- attribution: www.boinkme.com

Mitt and his laser pointer -- attribution: American.com via ZDNet

Mitt "Shiny Hair" -- attribution: blog, The Heretik, www.theheretik.us

Science icon

08-JAN-08 "Uncommitted" is a vote for Obama, in Michigan // Celeste Whiting

"Uncommitted" is a vote for Obama, in Michigan
Celeste Whiting

07-JAN-08 What's next for Dow and the dioxin cleanup? / Eartha Jane Melzer

What's next for Dow and the dioxin cleanup?
Eartha Jane Melzer