Archive for April, 2007
Shiawassee Dems Meeting Tonight
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007Shiawassee Dems next monthly meeting: Tuesday, April 24 Corunna City Hall Doors open at 6:30, meeting starts at 7:00pm Speaker: Commissioner Dan Stewart (District I) All are welcome to attend http://www.shiawasseedems.com
Press 1 If You Are Pregnant And Scared Out Of Your Mind
Monday, April 23rd, 2007So I call the health department today and got their automated system: Press 0 ... Immunization, STD testing, .... MI Child & Medicaid Insurance Program Press 1 WIC Program Press 2 Healthy Families Program or 0-3 Program Press 3 Maternal Infant Health Program Press 5 Children's Special Health Care Services Ok I paraphrased a little, ...
Is The Health Dept. Providing Required Services?
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Ok, so I've blown off some steam about the MIHP. There has also been this excellent letter to the editor in the local press: The Maternal Infant Health Program served Shiawassee County families for almost 20 years. The program's goal was to reduce infant mortality and promote healthy pregnancies and babies. To ...
Connecting With Dan O’Neil
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Lyrics from Dan's song, "Sleeping In" Last week I had the strangest dream where everything was exactly as it seemed there was never any mystery of who shot John F Kennedy It was just a man with something to prove slightly bored and severely confused he steadied his rifle with his target in the center and became ...
Bloggers, Google Owns You
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007So I was just checking out a post over at Problogger, regarding the Google Blogsearch patent application. No time now to comment on the whole thing, but here's a summary of how Google determines blogrank: [0037] Positive indicators as to the quality of the blog document may be identified (act ...
Shiawassee Commissioners To Look Into Health Dept Fees
Monday, April 16th, 2007Today at the Finance Committee meeting, the commissioners decided it would be appropriate to investigate the new Soil Erosion fee structure established by the Health Department. The first commissioner to question the Health Dept. fees was Jack Johnson, in his April 10 statement: Now, the program is under the Health ...
Dullest Blog In The World
Monday, April 16th, 2007Just popping in to plug The Dullest Blog In The World, as an example of how concept can be a good substitute for content ... Standing in the middle of the room I was standing at a central point in the room. The walls were all at approximately ...
Photo Gallery Updated
Monday, April 16th, 2007Added 5 more pictures to the Owosso Peace Rally gallery.
Everything Depends On The Lines
Monday, April 16th, 2007Well we can't win any House races because the lines are unfavorable. Now we won't keep Levin's seat in 2014 because the lines are unfavorable. Maybe we should work on changing the state boundaries so that we can keep the Gov's seat in 2012. And if the US could ...
Firing Imus Was Just Plain Silly
Sunday, April 15th, 2007Normally I wouldn't post about something like Imus. It's like posting about Bush or the war ... it's just too big for me. But in this case I'm making an exception because the situation with Imus symbolizes the worst of political theater. I'm not sure where this ...
From The Top A Smell Of Corruption
Saturday, April 14th, 2007note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. From The Top A Smell Of Corruption Even Republican partisans cannot miss the overpowering rank smell of corruption that seems to be coming from the Bush ...
Annual Shiawassee River Race
Friday, April 13th, 2007It's here again! The Annual Shiawassee River Race, through Oakland County, from Holly to Fenton .... May 20, 2007 Annual Shiawassee River Leisure Paddle and Race Paddle in Oakland County from Holly to Fenton Start: Waterworks Park in Holly 10 a.m. End: Strom Park in Fenton
Surge In Iraq (With Republicans)
Friday, April 13th, 2007note: This was written by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio. It is published here with permission of the author. The nation is deeply divided along Party lines over Bush's Iraq War policy. Republicans seem to largely support Bush and Cheney on the issue. Independents, ...
Commissioners Vote Against Lawsuit
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007In a move that will make Colbry cry for months, the Shiawassee County Commissioners voted unanimously against pursuing a lawsuit against Gary Holzhausen to compel him to return fees he collected for issuing soil erosion waivers. Commissioner Jack Johnson read a statement encouraging everyone to take responsibility for their respective roles ...
Fire In Owosso
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007In the Shiawassee forums this morning, there is a report from the Owosso City Firefighters on a fire at 315 Cass. Note: The OCFD has been criticized in the past for bringing a fire truck on ambulance calls. They do this so that there are more than ...
iPods As Body Armor
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Speaking of iPods, here's an interesting story ... iPod saves Soldiers life. Wow.
Slow News Night
Saturday, April 7th, 2007Hmph. Nothing going on in the forums. Nothing on MLive, nothing on Newscenter 25 Online, nothing on ABC12. I went after the Argus, but it turns out my subscription to the e-edition expired ... argh ... so I had to renew. The renewal hasn't kicked in yet.
iPods? How Embarrassing
Saturday, April 7th, 2007Well the Democrats have finally come up with something that I can't explain, defend, spin, or swallow. I have a friend who specializes in educational technology. Maybe she can explain it to me.
Shiawassee Health Department - Whatta Racket
Thursday, April 5th, 2007I just noticed on the 2007 budget for the Shiawassee Health Department that they are forecasting bringing in $41,300 in fees in the soil erosion program. Wow. They got lucky when the Board gave them the work. This new source of revenue will cover the salary of the lowest paid Sanitarian. ...