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Donor cash buys state leaders fun, trips, meals
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
JENNIFER DIXON and VICTORIA TURK - - Detroit Free Press
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm uses a state-owned plane for personal or political business, and corporations and law firms pick up the bill.
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BIG CHANGE IN A SMALL TOWN: Still in high school, teen is Hillsdale's new mayor
Friday, November 11, 2005
SHAWN WINDSOR - - Detroit Free Press
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Five days before the election, Hillsdale mayoral candidate Michael Sessions wound up in the emergency room with bronchitis. He'd spent too many nights knocking on doors in the cold, trying to convince residents to write his name on the ballot when they voted.
"I tried to tell him to wear his coat," said his mother, Lorri Sessions. "But he wouldn't."
Michael Sessions won Tuesday's election anyway, and at 18, became Hillsdale's youngest mayor ever, sending a jolt through this rolling little college community.
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QUESTIONS, ANSWERS: Bush's plan: Spend billions
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
EMILIA ASKARI - - Detroit Free Press
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President George W. Bush on Tuesday called for $7.1 billion in emergency spending to prepare the nation for a deadly flu pandemic.
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Bouchard's re-entry complicates GOP choices
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Eight months ago, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard suddenly dropped out of the running as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, citing a circulatory ailment.
Monday, Bouchard, 49, was back in the race, claiming his high cholesterol and blood pressure are under control.
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Bush apology for Libby urged, but GOP sees no need
Monday, October 31, 2005
JIM EFSTATHIOU JR. - - Detroit Free Press (Bloomberg)
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Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid called on President George W. Bush to "come clean" on the administration's role in disclosing a covert CIA agent's identity, while Republicans said the case was isolated and wouldn't do lasting political damage to Bush.
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Sheriff could join GOP race; pollster helps Butler rival
Monday, October 31, 2005
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard is expected to enter the U.S. Senate Republican primary to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
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Bill honoring Parks is complicated
Saturday, October 29, 2005
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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Rosa Parks and U.S. District Senior Judge William B. Bryant have this much in common: a Senate bill passed this week to name federal buildings for them.
That's the problem.
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CONDI'S MAN IN MICHIGAN
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
JULIE HINDS - - Detroit Free Press
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Matt May has his work cut out for him. He wants to elect the first woman president and the first African-American president. But his candidate keeps insisting she has no intention of running.
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Good-bye, Mrs. Parks
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
CASSANDRA SPRATLING - - Detroit Free Press
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When Rosa Parks refused to get up, an entire race of people began to stand up for their rights as human beings.
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GM plans to close more U.S. factories
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
MICHAEL ELLIS and JEFFREY MCCRACKEN - - Detroit Free Press
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner made it clear Tuesday the pain is not over for General Motors Corp. or its employees.
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Health expense remains burden
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
KATIE MERX - - Detroit Free Press
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General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said Tuesday that months of intense discussions with the UAW have yet to yield an agreement on how to reduce the automaker's $5.6 billion in health care expenses -- costs Wagoner said threaten GM's future.
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Democrats seek guru to set course
Monday, June 6, 2005
Dick Polman - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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The Republicans have a guru -- Karl Rove, who has guided George W. Bush since his days as Texas governor, and now charts the GOP's fortunes. So it's no wonder that the Democrats seek one of their own, a font of wisdom who can divine what is wrong and point the way forward.
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Laura Bush blossoms as an advocate for youths
Monday, May 2, 2005
WILLIAM DOUGLAS - - Detroit Free Press
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The ballroom was crammed with journalists, politicians, sports stars and entertainers, but that didn't stop Laura Bush from getting out of her dais seat and gently nudging the president away from the podium so she could let loose.
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Titles are least of worries in Butler's Senate bid
Monday, April 18, 2005
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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After announcing last week -- in very impressive style -- that he would seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2006, it seemed like a good time to find out what we're supposed to call Keith Butler. The former Detroit city councilman and leader of the Word of Faith megachurch in Southfield is routinely referred to in news stories as Rev. Butler. But careful observers of WOF and its affiliates can't miss the consistent use in official publications of the honorific Bishop Butler. So which is it?
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Granholm has plan to offer interest-free money to build small schools
Monday, April 11, 2005
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Following an education trend that smaller is better, Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants to offer zero-interest loans to some districts to build new, smaller high schools of no more than 500 students.
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Fisher's son-in-law may try to unseat Stabenow
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
KATHLEEN GRAY - - Detroit Free Press
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Peter Cummings isn't a household name in Michigan politics.
But he's among a half-dozen Republicans trying to decide whether to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in the November 2006 election.
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8 Israelis go to Toronto for their gay marriages
Saturday, March 12, 2005
AP's Beth Duff-Brown - - Detroit Free Press
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TORONTO -- To the cheers of mazel tov and the flutter of rose petals, four gay Israeli couples took their wedding vows in Canada on Friday, saying they hoped to break down marriage barriers in their nation and open doors for others to have their unions recognized.
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Dean to take Dems' top spot
Sunday, February 13, 2005
RICHARD KEIL - - Detroit Free Press (Bloomberg)
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Howard Dean is coming to Washington after all. The former Vermont governor, rejected by Democrats as their presidential candidate, will be selected today as the party's national chairman.
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Symbol of faith gets a boost
Sunday, February 13, 2005
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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Taking a position practically indistinguishable from that of Christian conservatives, Gov. Jennifer Granholm endorsed Friday the display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings, including the state Capitol.
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Northwest in hot water with wholesalers
Sunday, February 13, 2005
JENNIFER DIXON - - Detroit Free Press
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Northwest Airlines is one the world's largest airlines, with annual revenues of $11.3 billion and 38,000 employees around the globe, 8,600 based in Michigan.
But the airline discovered that it wasn't a match for the power of the Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, a trade group of 75 family-owned distributors.
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Poll: Most young adults believe college is key
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
AP's BEN FELLER - - Detroit Free Press
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Young U.S. adults value college, but many haven't enrolled because of money woes, poor preparation, low expectations at home or laziness, a survey finds.
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In Detroit, Bush challenges Congress
Wednesday, February 9, 2005
KATHLEEN GRAY - - Detroit Free Press
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In one of his most direct appeals for congressional action, President George W. Bush used a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday to say that the time for debate on his ambitious domestic agenda should be over.
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Michigan to hear from Bush, Granholm today
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm and President George W. Bush share Michigan as a political stage today: she to promote her 2005 agenda, he likely to plead the case for changing Social Security.
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Kerry's Mich. chief behind in party race
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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As Howard Dean's campaign for chairman of the Democratic National Committee got a boost Monday, one of Dean's strongest opponents faced allegations that his leadership of the Michigan Kerry for President campaign was in disarray days before the election.
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Metro Iraqi voters in media spotlight
Thursday, January 27, 2005
JULIE HINDS - - Detroit Free Press
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CNN is sending one of its anchors, Anderson Cooper, to Baghdad to cover the elections in Iraq. It's sending another top star, Aaron Brown, to Dearborn.
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Some see a Senate bid for Miller
Saturday, January 8, 2005
RUBY L. BAILEY and ALEXA CAPELOTO - - Detroit Free Press
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President George W. Bush smiled Friday when he introduced U.S. Rep. Candice Miller to a crowd at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts.
The audience roared its approval for the Harrison Township Republican as she stood and waved.
"Sounds like they've heard of you," the president said.
By Friday afternoon, many may have heard the rumor that Bush came to Macomb County -- at least in part -- to tout Miller as a challenger to Michigan's Democratic junior senator, Debbie Stabenow, in 2006.
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Bush uses Macomb visit to push for limits on asbestos lawsuits
Saturday, January 8, 2005
HUGH MCDIARMID JR. and ALEXA CAPELOTO - - Detroit Free Press
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President George W. Bush came to a Macomb County stage Friday to blast what he called the crippling effect on manufacturers in Michigan and nationwide of frivolous asbestos-related lawsuits.
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Pitfalls lie in path of Bush's grand plans
Monday, January 3, 2005
RON HUTCHESON - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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President George W. Bush will take the oath of office Jan. 20 with ambitions that extend well beyond his second term in the White House.
Bush intends to reshape the United States and the world for generations to come. At home, he wants to establish an ownership society by tossing aside traditional approaches to Social Security, federal taxes and the role of government.
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U.S. legislators keep pressing their proposals
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Glenn Maffei - - Detroit Free Press (States News Service)
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Call them patient, or foolish, or determined.
But don't be surprised if in the next session of Congress:
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, introduces a bill to collect reparations for slavery. Or one to change the Constitution to allow foreign-born U.S. citizens to become president.
Again.
Or if U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a Dearborn Democrat, calls upon the House to create a national health insurance program.
Again.
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Mich. farmers advised to heed federal pollution laws
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
AP's JOHN FLESHER - - Detroit Free Press
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Every Tuesday for more than a decade, Branch County hog farmer Pat Albright has left work and driven 15 miles to town for the weekly Rotary Club meeting.
Sometimes it's a hassle, he says. "But it probably pays when it comes to building relationships with the community -- and whether somebody's going to sue me or not."
Albright and other operators of big livestock farms figure they have good reason these days to worry about lawsuits from neighbors over noise, smells and pollution.
They also complain about government regulations that drive up business costs and threaten hefty fines for violations, although many environmentalists say the rules are weak and poorly enforced.
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Detroiters asked to help city spend federal money
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
M.L. ELRICK - - Detroit Free Press
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Detroiters will have three more chances -- including one tonight -- to help the city decide how to spend more than $200 million in their neighborhoods.
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Wine shipments face their day in high court
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
JENNIFER DIXON - - Detroit Free Press
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Terry Speizer wishes he could sell the wines he makes in the cool Edna Valley of California directly to Michigan consumers.
But Michigan law says he can't.
And Michigan's beer and wine wholesalers are doing all they can to keep it that way.
The standoff has led to a legal clash between out-of-state wine makers and wine distributors. It will play out today in the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear arguments on whether Michigan's laws for wine shipments are legal.
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Pension funds take a role in U.S. politics
Monday, December 6, 2004
AP's Jim Wasserman - - Detroit Free Press
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On issues from global warming to corporate reform, public pension funds controlled by union officials and Democrats in states carried by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry increasingly see themselves as counterweights to Republican control of the nation's political agenda.
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VOTE IN IRAQ: Thousands of miles away, Michigan could be pivotal
Monday, December 6, 2004
NIRAJ WARIKOO - - Detroit Free Press
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Inside his Dearborn mosque, the Muslim cleric clutches a copy of a faxed fatwa from the leading cleric of his native land.
"All Iraqis, men and women, who are eligible to vote must register," read Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy, translating a religious edict in Arabic written by the Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior Shi'ite cleric in Iraq. "Notice he's saying, 'must.' "
Indeed, for as many as 150,000 Iraqis in the United States, including 80,000 in Michigan by one estimate, voting in their motherland's upcoming elections is as serious as religion. For decades, they've waited for a chance to elect their own leaders. And now, from Dearborn to West Bloomfield, Michiganders of Iraqi descent are mobilizing to get out the vote.
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Die was cast back in Iowa for Kerry defeat
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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With all the finger-pointing and recrimination among Democrats over losing the presidential race and the dissection of John Kerry's candidacy, it may seem petty and spiteful to blame Iowa.
But what the heck, why not?
Iowa's Democratic caucus launched Kerry's Vietnam-laden campaign. It's where the soaring Howard Dean self-destructed and where party pedigree Dick Gephardt fell behind like a man overboard.
Then, it's where voters decided they'd really had enough of Democrats and went for George W. Bush.
In other words, it's where the die was cast for another heartbreaking loss for Democrats.
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Kellogg chief picked for Bush cabinet post
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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Carlos Gutierrez, a Cuban immigrant who began his career delivering Frosted Flakes and went on to become the chief executive officer of the Kellogg Co., was nominated Monday by President George W. Bush to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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Probe of Conyers to run into '05
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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The results of an informal inquiry into whether U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., used members of his staff for political campaigning during their working hours likely won't be completed until next year.
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Winner certified in Ukraine; concern rampant
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Mark McDonald - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Ukraine's government ignored reports of widespread electoral fraud and certified Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday as winner of the presidency while his pro-Western challenger, Viktor Yushchenko, called for a nationwide strike.
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Abraham fills up with job chances
Friday, November 19, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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Former Michigan governor John Engler knew that his old friend Spencer Abraham would be a hot property on the job market when he suggested that the U.S. Energy Department chief consider changing jobs at the end of President George W. Bush's first term.
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Why Kerry lost: Too lame, too liberal, too unlovable
Monday, November 8, 2004
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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I've spent much of the last week reading analysis of the campaign and election that just ended. And it has left me in a state of near complete confusion. Fortunately, opinion writing doesn't require the level of clarity needed to fly a commercial jetliner or run a business.
So here's a quick rundown on why I think Kerry lost:
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ANALYSIS: Many Bush supporters almost voted for Kerry
Saturday, November 6, 2004
RON HUTCHESON - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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Nearly one-fourth of President George W. Bush's supporters in Tuesday's election considered voting for Sen. John Kerry, but they stuck with the president because of concerns about terrorism and moral values, postelection polls show.
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Antibiotic may stop preventable blindness
Thursday, November 4, 2004
AP's JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA - - Detroit Free Press
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British researchers working in an East African village say a single dose of an antibiotic appears to stop infections that cause trachoma, the world's leading preventable cause of blindness.
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The smart young voters instill hope
Monday, November 1, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Much is made about the large number of young people who have registered to vote this year. It's partly the result of a get-out-the-vote industry -- like MTV's Choose or Lose campaign -- and the political parties' need to tap every vote they can this year.
But besides registration drives, young people are simply more interested in this year's election, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE).
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U.S. HOUSE: Incumbents expected to breeze to re-election
Thursday, October 28, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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Political experts predict that the 14 incumbents running for Congress in Michigan on Tuesday will win re-election. Little money has flowed from key sources into the campaigns of the challengers.
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Miller has momentum, but opponent believes in self
Thursday, October 28, 2004
ALEXA CAPELOTO - - Detroit Free Press
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Candice Miller has nearly everything going for her in her bid to return to the U.S. House of Representatives.
She built buzz and brought dollars home to the 10th District during her freshman term, and she's the face of the George W. Bush campaign in Michigan.
Factor in the 96-percent reelection rate for House incumbents and the Harrison Township Republican looks to have a lock.
But she and Democratic opponent Rob Casey refuse to see it that way.
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Iraqi Americans waver on Bush
Friday, October 29, 2004
NIRAJ WARIKOO - - Detroit Free Press
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In a photo that hangs in a Dearborn mosque, a Muslim leader is pointing at a crowd, his jaw jutted as he pounds home why President George W. Bush's plan to liberate Iraq is the right one.
It's a still frame of Sheikh Husham al-Husainy, a reminder to him and visitors that not too long ago, he passionately supported Bush and his Iraq war. Two years ago this week, al-Husainy organized dozens of local Iraqis on a trip to Washington, D.C., to counter one of the largest antiwar protests in the United States since Vietnam with their own pro-Bush rally.
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EYE ON POLITICS: Vietnam veterans in 'Stolen Honor' deserve to be heard
Monday, October 25, 2004
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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In the long run, it probably won't make much difference that the Sinclair Broadcast Group didn't show the documentary film about John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activism as a primetime news show.
"Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" is not first-rate television drama, just a series of interviews with middle-age men who were decorated soldiers and prisoners of war before their hair turned white. Mixed in are not-very-revelatory archival footage of the war, war protestors, the Hanoi Hilton and a young Lt. Kerry in Vietnam Veterans Against the War pose.
Still, it's too bad it didn't air. These guys deserve to be heard.
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Catholics split statewide over moral choices
Monday, October 25, 2004
PATRICIA MONTEMURRI - - Detroit Free Press
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The tense, passionate fight for the Catholic vote arrived Sunday morning on the sidewalks around National Shrine of the Little Flower church in Royal Oak.
About 50 Catholics from peace groups and the liberal Catholics for the Common Good passed out flyers and carried signs reading "War is a Life Issue, too" and "Health Care is a Life Issue."
Art Cairo emerged from mass and rebuffed a handout, which asks Catholics to consider the range of positions besides the church's teaching against abortion when choosing a candidate.
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10,000 pack Warren center to see Kerry
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
KATHLEEN GRAY and ALEXA CAPELOTO - - Detroit Free Press
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He was nearly drowned out by the repeated chants of "Eight more days," but Sen. John Kerry's message in Warren on Monday night was loud and clear.
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Gays fear marriage ban will end benefits
Saturday, October 23, 2004
TERESA MASK - - Detroit Free Press
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Sherri Stetten was added to the health benefits plan held by her partner, Julie Stetten, a webmaster at the University of Michigan, when her new employer, a small family-owned business, didn't provide coverage.
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Your vote counts big in this unsettled state
Saturday, October 23, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF, KATHLEEN GRAY, and PATRICIA MONTEMURRI - - Detroit Free Press
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If you're on the fence or uncertain whether you'll find the time or motivation to vote Nov. 2, watch out.
The presidential campaigns of President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry are coming after you with a vengeance with just 10 days left before the election and a new poll showing the race for Michigan's 17 electoral votes in a dead heat.
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Marriage ban divides, unites religions
Thursday, October 21, 2004
PATRICIA MONTEMURRI and MARISOL BELLO - - Detroit Free Press
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Divisions over homosexuality that have wracked American religious groups for decades are spilling into voting booths this year.
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Bakery's Bush, Kerry treats poll customers
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
NATE TRELA - - Detroit Free Press
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John Mannino has seen it all this election season -- people buying votes, plotting to stuff the ballot box and promising to spend whatever it takes to deliver a victory for their candidate.
And he's even encouraging it.
"It's been great for business," he said of the cookie- and cupcake-based poll he's running at Mannino's Bakery in Sterling Heights. It's one of a growing number of ways people try to determine -- in unscientific, and often entertaining, ways -- which candidate will win the presidential election.
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Many couples can't escape the Bush-vs.-Kerry debate
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
JULIE HINDS - - Detroit Free Press
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The dividing line of the 2004 election runs deep. Husbands and wives are bickering over who's the best candidate. Parents and children are fighting about Iraq and offshoring over dinner.
You've heard of red states and blue states? There also are red-blue couples and families.
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Predicting a president
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
NATE TRELA - - Detroit Free Press
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Don't listen to the pollsters and the pundits. There are a handful of unscientific tools you can use to predict who will win the race between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry.
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Social Security a political weapon
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
JAMES KUHNHENN - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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After months of avoiding it, the presidential campaigns are broaching the politically sensitive subject of Social Security. But instead of offering specific solutions to the retirement system's long-term insolvency, the two candidates are using the issue as a political weapon.
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In Michigan, environment is a hot political topic
Monday, October 18, 2004
HUGH MCDIARMID JR. - - Detroit Free Press
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Presidential candidates learn the hard way not to mess around with Michigan's environment.
Case in point: Both President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry once suggested Great Lakes water diversion was worthy of discussion -- Bush in 2001 and Kerry in February.
Only once.
"There was a very quick public outcry condemning those statements," recalls James Clift, policy advisor to the Michigan Environmental Council. "They got caught blurting out general statements that could have been taken wrong."
Both candidates backtracked furiously and have consistently preached an "under no circumstances" diversion policy since then.
That environmental message and others are tailored to Michigan and other key Great Lakes swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio. It is a small anomaly in a national political landscape where clean air and water consistently rank below war, the economy and health care among voter concerns. The environment was virtually invisible in the presidential debates.
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Voters are inspired, but not by candidates
Saturday, October 16, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Kimberly Deloach voted for George W. Bush for president in 2000, but the Detroit resident said she won't vote for him again.
She said she thinks Bush lied about his reasons to invade Iraq. She said too many American soldiers have died there, as Bush diverted his focus away from capturing Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Deloach, 36, was impressed by Democratic challenger John Kerry's debating skills and said she'll vote for him. But while she thinks he's convincing on issues, she doesn't see him as someone who relates to people like her.
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Blunders, ignored warnings mire effort to rebuild Iraq
Sunday, October 17, 2004
WARREN P. STROBEL and John Walcott - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, U.S. war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina to review the Bush administration's plans to oust Saddam Hussein and implant democracy in Iraq.
Near the end of his presentation, an Army lieutenant colonel showed a slide describing the Pentagon's plans for rebuilding Iraq after the war. He was uncomfortable with his material -- and for good reason.
The slide said: "To Be Provided."
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Wedding day gift is groom's new heart
Thursday, October 14, 2004
ZLATI MEYER - - Detroit Free Press
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They went to the chapel and they got married.
And then they went to Henry Ford Hospital and got a heart.
That's how Steven Dulka III's and Deidre Jacoboni's special day unfolded. Shortly after noon on Oct. 2, Dulka, 51, who had inflammation of the heart, got a call from the hospital's transplant coordinator.
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Arabs, Muslims hold a rally for Bush
Thursday, October 14, 2004
NIRAJ WARIKOO - - Detroit Free Press
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The heated contest for Michigan's Arab and Muslim vote came to Southfield on Wednesday evening, as more than 100 supporters of President George W. Bush gathered to rally for his re-election.
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Political signs done by hand dot roads
Thursday, October 14, 2004
NATE TRELA - - Detroit Free Press
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In an era of multimillion-dollar ad buys for presidential candidates, the politically minded are finding they can get a message out to captive audiences for the cost of a can of spray paint and some bungee cords.
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U.S. voters abroad bask in new clout
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Matthew Schofield - - Detroit Free Press
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BERLIN -- Henry Nickel and other representatives of the much-talked-about presidential swing vote sat in a basement bar, drinking German beer and small dark coffees, and enjoying their moment in the American political spotlight.
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Zogby says undecided voters are still the key
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
KATHLEEN GRAY - - Detroit Free Press
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John Zogby was flying to Miami last week for the first of three presidential debates when his seatmate on the plane stated, "I'm going to watch that thing tonight."
Zogby, founder and president of the Zogby International polling firm, asked the man how he felt about the election. The man, in his 30s, said he had voted for President George W. Bush in 2000, but just couldn't make up his mind for the Nov. 2 election.
"I told him, OK, pretend I've got a gun aimed right at your head ready to shoot. Who's it going to be -- Bush or Kerry?" Zogby said he told the man. "And without batting an eyelash, he said, 'You're going to have to kill me, then.' "
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Concerts are pro-Kerry, but many go only for the music
Monday, October 4, 2004
STEVE BYRNE - - Detroit Free Press
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Tailgating in a downtown Detroit parking lot, five lifelong friends -- and diehard Bruce Springsteen fans -- represented some of the internal tension at the heart of the Vote for Change tour that came to Michigan for six shows on Sunday night.
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Debate serves up 2 distinct choices
Monday, October 4, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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The French were apparent casualties in the wake of last week's presidential debate, at least in the path of President George W. Bush's campaign.
I thought we were over the France-bashing that erupted last year when it refused to join the invasion of Iraq. But the day after last week's debate, Bush campaigned in Pennsylvania and blasted Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry for even thinking about consulting with other nations before the U.S. pulls the trigger on a perceived foreign threat.
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Kerry puts pressure on Bush -- for now
Saturday, October 2, 2004
STEVEN THOMMA - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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With a successful kickoff debate, Sen. John Kerry managed to change the dynamic of the presidential campaign and at least temporarily put President George W. Bush on the defensive.
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Gay marriage ban headed for passage
Saturday, October 2, 2004
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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Buoyed by strong support among people who attend religious services, a proposal to amend the Michigan Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman is supported by a clear majority of voters, a Free Press poll shows.
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Filmmaker urges Kerry vote ... or else
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
PATRICIA MONTEMURRI - - Detroit Free Press
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If free underwear and Ramen noodles aren't enough to entice college students to vote on Nov. 2, filmmaker Michael Moore is trying to scare them into voting for John Kerry by suggesting that President George W. Bush will reinstate the military draft if re-elected.
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Need for more U.S. troops is acute
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
David Wood - - Detroit Free Press (Newhouse News Service)
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Nearly everyone -- generals, Pentagon strategists, politicians and soldiers -- agrees the United States needs more troops, the key to waging war against Muslim insurgents in Iraq and around the world.
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State polls: Bush, Kerry in virtual tie
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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Two of three new polls show the presidential race in Michigan is a virtual dead heat, after several months of polling gave Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry significant leads.
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Kerry sharpens focus and revives campaign
Saturday, September 25, 2004
STEVEN THOMMA - - Detroit Free Press
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After watching their candidate on the defensive for weeks and fearing that he might have blown the 2004 election, Democrats are growing more optimistic that John Kerry is back in the race.
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State voter rolls at all-time high
Saturday, September 25, 2004
DAWSON BELL and KATHLEEN GRAY - - Detroit Free Press
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Potential voters are being registered at what appears to be a record rate in Michigan this year as activists and interest groups seek every possible advantage in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 2 election.
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BATTLEGROUND IN OHIO: Nearby Toledo is a must-win
Friday, September 24, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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Indeed, Haddad and his downtown barber shop clients in Toledo are important. They are among the targets in the nation's No. 1 advertising market -- based on dollars spent -- for Kerry and third biggest for Bush, according to the University of Wisconsin Advertising Project. The project found that Ohio has six of the top 10 slots for advertising by the Bush and Kerry campaigns.
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Candidates shift from Vietnam to war in Iraq
Friday, September 24, 2004
DAVID GOLDSTEIN - - Detroit Free Press
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After weeks of attacks over who did what during a divisive war four decades ago, the presidential candidates are finally talking about the war dividing America today.
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Parties target those who just need a bit of prodding to vote
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Detroit Free Press
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Some call them "the unreliables" -- huge numbers of prospective voters who favor one party or the other but have spotty records of showing up at the polls.
Six weeks before Election Day, both parties are mounting unprecedented efforts to get these highly prized people to cast their ballots -- not on Nov. 2, but as far in advance as possible, in some cases this week.
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SWITCHING BATTLES: Anti-Bush group relocates to other states
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
PATRICIA MONTEMURRI - - Detroit Free Press
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Americans Coming Together (ACT), the political fund-raising group behind high-profile rock concerts meant to increase turnout for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, is closing all 10 of its offices in Michigan and reassigning most of its 100 staff members to other battleground states.
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Cheney says Kerry can't effectively fight terror
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Vice President Dick Cheney continued his campaign tough talk on terrorism and the Iraq war Tuesday, saying Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry has "a pre-9/11 mindset" that doesn't recognize the urgent need to attack terrorists abroad before they can acquire nuclear or biological weapons to attack the United States again.
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Contrite CBS: Bush memos iffy
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
AP's DAVID BAUDER - - Detroit Free Press
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CBS News apologized Monday for a "mistake in judgment" in its story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service, saying it was misled by the source of documents that indicated an officer was pressured in the 1970s to go easy on Bush.
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Hoekstra moves up with humility
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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If there's any hint of the approach U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra will take as the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, it's his office furniture.
Start with his desk.
It's not the typical, expansive mass of ornate wood that says, "I'm important."
"I'm not," said Hoekstra, R-Holland. "I don't want a desk that says I'm something I'm not."
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GI is finally coming home -- to be buried next to grandpa
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
MELANIE D. SCOTT - - Detroit Free Press
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As Alfeeria Johnson sat at her computer for her weekly e-mail chat with her son, Sgt. Carl Thomas, the two shared how much they looked forward to seeing each other in a few weeks and planned to celebrate the occasion with a barbecue.
"He sounded OK, and he told me to wait on making my flight arrangements," said Johnson of Inkster. "He was supposed to be home in October."
The e-mail chat on Sept. 12 was the last time the two communicated. Thomas, 29, died in Baghdad, Iraq, the next day while driving an Army vehicle over a land mine, his mother said. The Department of Defense said the incident is under investigation.
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Kerry Does 'Top Ten' on Letterman Show
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
AP's NEDRA PICKLER - - Detroit Free Press
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Democrat John Kerry joked on "The Late Show with David Letterman" about changes under President Bush's tax plan, including that Vice President Dick Cheney can claim the president as a dependent.
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Grief pours out for beheaded Hillsdale native
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
CECIL ANGEL - - Detroit Free Press
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Eugene (Jack) Armstrong's heartsick family had been anxiously waiting for news since the FBI called them last Thursday.
Monday afternoon, the waiting ended in the tragedy they had feared. Jack Armstrong had been beheaded in Iraq by militants who had kidnapped him and two other workers for the Gulf Services Co. of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.
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Kerry: Bush's term full of excuses
Thursday, September 16, 2004
JEFFREY MCCRACKEN and KATHLEEN GRAY - - Detroit Free Press
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In some of his harshest economic attacks of the campaign, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a Detroit audience Wednesday that President George W. Bush has overseen an "excuse presidency" that accepts no blame for decisions Kerry said have led to a loss of nearly 1 million jobs, higher health care costs and a record government budget deficit.
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At U-M, Nader exhorts change
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
MARYANNE GEORGE - - Detroit Free Press
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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader told an audience of about 500 people at the University of Michigan on Monday to raise their political expectations, rather than choosing Sen. John Kerry or President George W. Bush.
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Lakes a hot topic as Bush tours state
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
DAWSON BELL and CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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President George W. Bush swept through western Michigan on Monday, exhorting supporters and trading barbs with Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry over the cost of health care reform and who is more committed not to siphon water from the Great Lakes to distant states.
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Electing a President: The Debates
Monday, September 13, 2004
Carol Cain - - Detroit Free Press
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Nothing says John Kerry and George W. Bush need to square off before millions of TV viewers. But the televised presidential debates have become a staple of the campaign. The debates bring the candidates face-to-face and allow voters to size them up. The more memorable moments of modern campaigns have occurred during these matchups.
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Iraq, jobs stay keys for voters
Monday, September 13, 2004
JEFFREY MCCRACKEN - - Detroit Free Press
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Sitting on the unemployment line, jobless for the first time in 40 years, former plant manager Phil Dalecki knew the economy and health care would be his top issues this presidential election.
And Vietnam veteran and restaurant owner Mike Hanna knew after seeing his country at war that he would vote based on who he thought would best manage the situation in Iraq.
Their priorities are telling. Dalecki says he has "soured" on President George W. Bush, and wants to hear what Sen. John Kerry has to say about health care. Hanna, meanwhile, leans solidly toward Bush.
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EYE ON POLITICS: Blacks' abortions tragically ignored
Monday, September 13, 2004
DAWSON BELL - - Detroit Free Press
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One of the familiar features of a political rally in any urban area in Michigan is the recitation of ills and injustice that befall many black citizens.
They are, of course, legion. Dysfunctional schools. High crime. Low employment. More African-American men in prison than college.
But there is another that almost never gets mentioned by politicians black or white. Some are even reluctant to call it an ill or an injustice. But it is hard to think of it as anything other than a tragedy.
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Catholics allowed pro-choice vote
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
PATRICIA MONTEMURRI - - Detroit Free Press
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Anti-abortion Catholics can support pro-choice candidates, as long as they agree with the candidate on a range of other issues.
That pronouncement in an Italian magazine from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's top spokesman on Catholic teachings, went unnoticed in the din of presidential election-year politics.
But it could reverberate in a close election, which pits President George W. Bush, a conservative Christian abortion opponent, against Democratic Sen. John Kerry, a Catholic who favors abortion rights.
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Baathists are thriving in secret
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
HANNAH ALLAM - - Detroit Free Press (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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By day, Iraqis loyal to Saddam Hussein's much-feared Baath Party recite their oath in clandestine meetings, solicit donations from sympathizers and talk politics over sugary tea at a Baghdad cafe called the Party.
By night, cells of these same men stage attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, host soirees for Hussein's birthday and other former regime holidays, and debrief informants still dressed in suits and ties from their jobs in the new, U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
Even with Hussein in jail, the Baath Party is back in business.
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Edwards stumps at park in Kalamazoo
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
CHRIS CHRISTOFF - - Detroit Free Press
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards stirred an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand supporters at a downtown Kalamazoo park on Monday night, attacking President George W. Bush on the economy, health care, Iraq and even Canadian trash.
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U.S. workers take a hit as pay stalls, costs rise
Monday, September 6, 2004
JEFFREY MCCRACKEN - - Detroit Free Press
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During the last three years, total U.S. compensation, including wages and benefits, has been growing eight times slower than normal, according to one new study.
Employees and economists have come up with a new term for this current trend: A joyless recovery.
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EMPLOYMENT FIGURES: Job statistics suit both Bush, Kerry
Saturday, September 4, 2004
RON HUTCHESON - - Detroit Free Press
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Pivotal jobless numbers released by the Labor Department on Friday drove campaign debate as President George W. Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry marched through crucial states to begin the two-month, cross-country sprint toward Election Day.
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Blacks don't change loyalty
Monday, August 30, 2004
RUBY L. BAILEY - - Detroit Free Press
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Just before he asked African Americans gathered in Detroit at the Urban League convention last month what the Democratic Party had done for them lately, President George W. Bush rattled off a list of black appointees he had named to top jobs in his administration.
But Bush's choices gain him little traction with African Americans who are expected to vote overwhelmingly for Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry in November.
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Events affect Bush's promise to unify
Monday, August 30, 2004
RON HUTCHESON - - Detroit Free Press
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He's a little older, a little grayer and four pounds heavier, but the changes in President George W. Bush over the past four years go beyond outward appearances.
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Lewinsky: No Regrets on Interview Money
Sunday, August 29, 2004
AP's Jill Lawless - - Detroit Free Press
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Monica Lewinsky said Saturday she has struggled to move on from her notorious relationship with Bill Clinton - but has no regrets about accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars to talk about the affair.
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Cheney woos in Waterford
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
KATHLEEN GRAY - - Detroit Free Press
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Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up attacks on Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday in his fifth visit to Michigan since June.
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ELECTING THE PRESIDENT: The Grand Old Party
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Carol Cain - - Detroit Free Press
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