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Big Pharma Controls Lansingnew

Michigan grants all the big drug companies total immunity from being sued if their products, say, just happen to kill you or make your baby daughter grow a beard, as long as their product is FDA-approved -- but that may soon change.
Metro Times  |  Jack Lessenberry  |  02-27-2007  |  Business & Labor

The State We're Innew

For the first time since the Great Depression, Michigan has lost jobs for six years in a row.
Metro Times  |  Jack Lessenberry  |  02-13-2007  |  Commentary

What's the Scoop on Impeachment?new

The word was that Rep. John Conyers had been leaned on by the leadership and asked to cool it.
Metro Times  |  Jack Lessenberry  |  02-06-2007  |  Politics

How Gerald Ford Held the Roadnew

He was as different from the out-of-control chucklehead now in the White House as night from day.
Metro Times  |  Jack Lessenberry  |  01-09-2007  |  Commentary

Should We Bring Back the Draft?new

Our professional army increasingly doesn't look like America -- in turn, America doesn't pay much attention to it.
Metro Times  |  Jack Lessenberry  |  03-22-2006  |  Commentary

Vietnam War Was a Brilliant Idea Compared to Iraqi Messnew

Regardless of your theology, Bush Two is right indeed to point out that someday we will all be dead; what he left out is that thanks to his idiot policies and political cowardice, many of us are likely to be impoverished first.
Metro Times  |  Jack Lessenberry  |  08-07-2004  |  Commentary

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