For the fifth year in a row, CEOs rated Texas as the #1 state in which to do business and California as the worst, according to a Chief Executive magazine survey. North Carolina maintained its #2 rank, while Tennessee rose two positions to the #3 spot. Virginia was up three slots from last year to [...]
Texas Top State for Business, California Worst
May 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Objectivity Distant Memory at ABC News
April 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
“Live from a remote cave in Afghanistan, this is Osama Bin Laden reporting.” Upon hearing an ABC News reporter using that name to sign off, the average American would probably receive anything the reporter said with a healthy dose of skepticism. Why? Because most Americans recognize the name of the Al-Qaeda leader and would not [...]
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Michigan Governor Sides Against Meat, Calls for One-Day Boycott of State’s Billion-Dollar Industry
March 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments
March 20 is National Ag Day, but you wouldn’t know about it by visiting the web site (right) of Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm (D-Mich.). Instead of showing support for an industry generating more than $1 billion of revenue annually, Governor Granholm is touting Michigan Meatout Day and encouraging residents of the Great Lake State “to [...]
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Airport Security Breach in Detroit! (Update)
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments
A security breach at Detroit’s Metro Wayne County Airport resulted in the arrest of a man just before 8 a.m. Eastern today. It also prompted re-screenings of hundreds of passengers. The man apparently walked through the Transportation Security Administration screening area, according to a Michigan Public Radio report, ignoring repeated orders to stop, and proceeded [...]
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Controversy Swirls Around Dearborn Imam’s Death (Update)
January 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Controversy is swirling three months after the death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah (right), a Muslim imam who died in an Oct. 28 shootout with federal agents in Dearborn, Mich., trying to arrest Abdullah and others on charges related to stolen goods. The Detroit Free Press is reporting on the results of an autopsy alleged to [...]
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President Obama’s Double Standard Disgraceful
September 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
President Barack Obama has been silent about the weekend murder of a pro-life advocate outside a high school in a small town near Flint, Mich. And he’s said nothing after a white student was beaten by black students on a school bus in Belleville, Ill., a few miles southeast of St. Louis. It’s as if [...]
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University of Michigan Places Restrictions on Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Due to Flammability
September 1st, 2009 · 7 Comments
If other colleges and universities across the country choose to follow the University of Michigan’s lead, a recent decision by officials at the Ann Arbor school could put a huge dent in the bottom lines of several companies in the $100-million hand sanitizer industry. It could also make centers of higher education across the country [...]
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