Archive for the ‘Shiawassee County’ Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I have just received (unconfirmed) word that Les Schneider will be running for commissioner in district 4. He filed his papers today and is running in the primary as a write-in Democrat.He faces incumbent Jon Micheal Fuja.
From Commissioner Jack Johnson:
Les will bring the veterans perspective and ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
I just saw the Re-elect Sheriff Jon Wilson site, and I have to say that it is one of the worst sites I've ever seen.
I'll give the man credit for the attempt; it has a donation link, a volunteer link, and all the other good links that you want in ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Just want to give another shout out to our awesome commissioners. From the AP:
The number of Michigan households getting food stamps has risen 53 percent in the past five years, with one in eight state residents now aided by the nutrition assistance program, authorities say.
In all, 590,600 state households ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Cross posted at BFM
One lesson I keep learning over & over again is that I should never blog when I'm angry. That lesson just doesn't seem to stick with me.
So yesterday our Board of Commissioners voted to indefinitely postpone the amendment to revert the food licensing and inspection fees ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Commissioner Dan Stewart (D-1) is under fire for changing his mailing address to a location outside of his district.
Commissioners are required to reside in the district they represent. Stewart left his home a couple of weeks ago, when he and his wife agreed to end their marriage. ...
Posted in Announcements, Shiawassee County | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Greg Shire.
If you're from here, you've heard his name. You've read about him in the paper, or you've talked about him with a friend. You might not remember exactly who he is, but you know you've heard the name.
For most of us in the area, we first heard ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
(Late notice, sorry ...)
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY DEM MEETING
APRIL 22, 2008
DOORS OPEN 6:30 PM
BUSINESS MEETING CONVENES 7:00 PM
MEETING PLACE CHANGE
OLMSTEAD MEETING ROOM
LOCATED AT THE BACK OF THE
CORUNNA-CALEDONIA DISTRICT LIBRARY
210 E. CORUNNA AVE, CORUNNA
RIGHT BEHIND THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE
PARKING LOT
ENTRANCE AT THE NORTH SIDE OF THE LIBRARY BUILDING
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Commissioner Dan Stewart has just published his March / April newsletter. You can download the 908KB pdf newsletter here.
And you can visit Dan's website at http://web.mac.com/danthemanstewart.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Good news! The May 4, 2007 letter that is supposed to exonerate Wilson, has been leaked to a blogger.
Chet Zarko reports that he received two copies of the letter, anonymously.
This letter was first requested via FOIA in December. At that time, the county simply ignored the request for ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
I was going through my old posts, and reflecting on everything that's happened recently, and it occurred to me how really crappy our county government is.
I tend to blog about the things that I think are wrong, so I am almost always complaining about something. It may lead people ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I hate it when bloggers blog about themselves, but this experience might help someone out there.
Ok. So I get my propane from McBrides / Northwest, and I just paid $3.59 a gallon.
This did not seem right to me, so a friend of mine called them to check on it. ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Argus, that's a bit of a slam to blogs.
Don’t give us half of a year-old story that you picked up from reading blogs. That does not seem very professional as we all know blogs are anonymous and self-serving.
First of all I'm ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I received a newsletter from Commissioner Dan Stewart yesterday. It looks like he's going to try to publish these monthly. It's a summary of what he's been working on and what's coming up.
I've converted it to pdf, and you can download a copy here - http://christinebarry.com/downloads/stewart_feb.pdf
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
There are a couple of threads over on the Shiawassee forums that should be of interest to anyone with kids in the OPS system. They revolve around the lawsuit brought against OPS by Jim McAvoy, former Technology Director for Owosso Schools. If I'm reading the info correctly, the ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
If you recall, there was a ballot issue regarding the consolidation of the Perry and Morrice school districts, back in January. The consolidation was defeated with 73% voting against it. I didn't follow the issue that closely, and I didn't realize that the MEA was such an important ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I see that Owosso Public Schools Superintendent Greg Gray is going to stay in Owosso. Not by his choice, of course ... he had been hoping to become the next Superintendent for Grand Ledge Public Schools.
“Me and my wife (Chris) are both from Grand Ledge,” Gray said. ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article on my hometown Sheriff, Jon Wilson. The Argus also ran an article on the Sheriff, based partially on my investigative work. At the time, Sheriff Wilson told our local paper that they would not get any more information from ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Cross-posted at bfm.
The Sheriff leaned in close to the door and strained to hear the conversation on the other side. If he was quiet enough, he could just make out what they were saying. He knew them all well enough to identify them by their voices. If ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
If you recall, I wrote a little about the Sheriff earlier this year; here and here. I never got anywhere with my inquiries into what's going on in that department, because I couldn't get any info from anyone. But the Sheriff's recent complaints about his $3,000 raise seems ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
I was talking to a County Commissioner last night, who told me that he recently had some questions about the invoices being submitted to the county by a particular attorney. These were reasonable questions; for example, one document included a note "see attached", but there was no attachment.
So he ...
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