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February 8, 2007 / Columns

Michigan Politics

Emergency Panel: Instant and Long Term Changes Needed in Fiscal Crisis

By George Weeks

There are few rabbits left in the hat. - Governor's Emergency Financial Advisory Panel Six-term Democratic Governor G. More...

Les Cheneaux

By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 mink@cedarville.net

Bitter cold weather has finally arrived with this month of February. No matter what the groundhog said, it is winter and I'm sure it will stay that way for more than six weeks. More...

Rexton-Garnet

By Linda Livermore 595-7283

Welcome to the frozen, white, below-zero Upper Peninsula. We should know better than to expect anything else this time of the year. More...

Engadine

By Julie Freeman 477-6959 engadinenews@sbcglobal.net

Brrrr... It's cold outside. As I'm sitting here, next to a warm wood fire, it's five below zero outside. Some places are seeing lower temperatures than that. More...

115 Years Ago The St. Ignace News Saturday, February 6, 1892 J.H. Browne's theatre company will probably reach here in April. Ice harvesting has commenced, the M.L. Company and D.S.S.&A. Railroad Company have filled their houses. More...

News From St. Ignace Area Schools

Keep the Pressure on Legislators To See Change in School Funding

By Mike Springsteen, Superintendent

Michigan is in a financial bind. Gary Olsen, director of the Senate Fiscal Agency, just released information that the state's deficit stands at $819 million - $442 million from the general fund and $337 million from the school aid fund. More...

Autos Across Mackinac:

Colonel Card, Colonel Pond Added to Service at the Straits

PART 5 THE FERRY TAKES OFF By Les Bagley

The 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Mackinac Bridge and the end of auto ferry service across the Straits of Mackinac is this year. More...

DeTour Area

By Barbara Buschbacher 297-8075 bbann@sault.com

How are you handling the minus zero and zero temperatures we're experiencing? There aren't too many of us out and about, as we're huddled inside near the heat. It's nice to see the sunshine. More...

DEAL ME IN

Free Trip to the Chow Line for System Player

Mark Pilarski

Dear Mark, I have been working on a system for roulette for the past six months. I have run it in practice mode for 5,000 individual spins on my computer, and 500 times on a live game. More...