Feature Columnists
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Kathy Gibbons: Worth 1,000 words
It was my last day of restaurant ownership. I'd started the business not quite a year before, full of hopes and dreams and ideas. But as time went on, it became clear to me that I was underfunded and overtaxed -- literally and figuratively.
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On Poetry: First thought, full bloom
It's the rainy season here in Traverse City. After the winter we've had, spring makes me a little goofy, which may be why I like this poem about rain and mud and love by Paul Valery, the French poet, essayist and philosopher.
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The View from Sunnybank: Resurrection
The transformation was stunning. The long row of windows sparkled. The walls and ceiling had been scrubbed. The upholstered furniture, parked outside in fresh air, had been whacked with industrial strength rug beaters, then thoroughly vacuumed, then shampooed.
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Op-Ed: There may be hope for Detroit
The wonder of it was not that Dave Bing, basketball star-turned businessman-turned-politician, won last week's election to become Detroit's third mayor in less than eight months. The amazing thing is that Detroit had what was pretty much a normal election.
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Op-Ed: Not first time history's shuffled
The Bureau of History, including the state archives, was a part of the Department of State well before the Engler and Granholm administrations. Woe is a governor who rules that the state cannot afford to preserve its own archives.
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