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FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: McCain's Vice Presidential choice

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday

As McCain continues his march to the far right, who might help balance out the Republican presidential ticket?

FREE PRESS ENDORSEMENTS: Best choices for Oakland County state House seats

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday

Oakland County voters will see sizable turnover in their legislative delegation with seven seasoned state representatives swept from office by term limits at year's end. Besides choosing candidates for those vacancies, county voters have choices to make in the Aug. 5 primary in four other races, including two where incumbents are being challenged.

FREE PRESS CARTOONIST MIKE THOMPSON: Animated cartoon: Michigan power grab

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Amazing what people will stoop to in the name of "good government."

FREE PRESS ENDORSEMENTS: The best choices for Wayne County state House seats

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Wayne County has spirited primary contests under way in most of its open seats in its 23 state House districts. Although some incumbents have challengers, particularly in Detroit, only two appear to face some difficulty.

Larry Lanting on the Today Show…

Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 49 minutes ago

Breaking story from Toledo Free Press: NBC’s “Today” is expected to run a segment Thursday morning on controversial videos posted on the Web that show individuals impersonating police officers and abusing homeless persons, among other things, a local radio producer confirmed Wednesday afternoon. Jeremy Baumhower, producer for “The Troy Neff Show,” which airs weekday mornings on WCWA-AM [...]

Let’s talk about “Uncle Ted” the Rib Off and Selectivity…

Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

This recent Toledo Free Press article alludes to part of Ted’s feeling: Uncle Ted loves to raise hell. The outspoken, conservative singer-guitarist will offer advice on how to fix America’s problems in his book, “Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto,” due in August. “The ‘Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto’ is an enormous crowbar of [...]

TIGERS AT ROYALS: Follow our live blog to see if the Tigers can sweep the Royals

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Free Press special writer Anthony Fenech analyzes today's Tigers-Royals game from the best seat in the house -- his couch.

Former auto writer dies; covered beat for 50 years

Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Albert Fleming, who covered the auto industry for a number of publications, including the Detroit Free Press, has died. He was 78. Eric Lawrence of the Free Press writes, “David Smith, a former business editor at the Free Press and currently editor at large of the monthly Ward’s Auto World in Southfield, remembered Mr. Fleming for [...]

Fight Over Couple's Smelly Farmland Goes to Higher Court

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Amber Hunt, Detroit Free Press Jul. 22--A Macomb Township couple told the Free Press a judge's order to send them to jail over the stench of their farmland flat-out stinks -- and they're hoping the state Supreme Court will agree with them.

Fight over couple's smelly farmland goes to higher court

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Macomb Township couple told the Free Press a judge's order to send them to jail over the stench of their farmland flat-out stinks -- and they're hoping the state Supreme Court will agree with them.

A three-time Loeb winner talks about how he does what he does

Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Charles Fishman is a editor-at-large of Fast Company magazine, where he’s been on staff since 1996. He’s currently on leave from the business magazine to write a book about water, to be published by Free Press of Simon & Schuster. The book idea came from a story Fishman wrote for the magazine about bottled water. He’s taken a magazine article [...]

Comcast sets the record straight

The Navel of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

In the course of pursuing its grievance with the FCC over broadband traffic management, Free Press and its allies have developed annoying tendencies to overstate the qualifications of its “experts” and to make wild technical assertions unsupported by empirical data. They pass Robb Topolski off as a “network engineer” when he was, while employed, a [...]

City launches investigation of Port Authority

Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Toledo Free Press has the breaking news story, City Launches Investigation of Port Authority on their website. Some of the recommended article: The City of Toledo has launched its own investigation of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority and the agency’s president and CEO James Hartung, according to a July 21 public records request from the [...]

• City launches investigation of Port Authority - Toledo Free Press

US Moral Sniping At China Is Insane

Culture of Life News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

The United States has become totally unglued from reality. Today's insane editorial from the New York Times attacking China over police matter and free press is a typical example. The US resembles more and more the worst aspects of the...

Tuesday morning news digest: construction delays ahead edition

A Bluestem Prairie (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

The Pioneer Press reports City officials: Road upgrades in southern Minnesota lose under 20-year plan. Highway 14 improvements west of Mankato look to be the big loser. The Free Press says in Road upgrades lose to 20-year plan: "Mankato-area highway...