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Good news, bad news on lifetime insurance for state legislators
February 7, 2010
By Kelly Raskauskas

There was some good news out of Lansing this week: legislators agreed to end the practice of lifetime taxpayer-funded health care for legislators who turn 55.

The bad news? The legislators decided to exempt themselves from losing this little perk.

Speaker of the House Andy Dillon says he thought current legislators should be included, but he didn’t put it in the bill because he was afraid it wouldn’t get through the Senate. (Gosh, legislating is hard!)

Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop thought about including current legislators, but it wouldn’t have been enough of a savings to bother. Last year, Michigan taxpayers spent almost...

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Brunner's opens Monday in Howell
February 8, 2010
By Maria Stuart

Maybe you can go home again.

At least that’s how it felt today at Brunner’s, which opened in the Promenade Mall on Grand River Avenue just east of downtown Howell.

Or, is it more accurate to say, “reopened”?

It was Brunner’s several years ago before sisters Jeannie Karagiorgos and Sia Kupfer, as well as Karagiorgos’ husband, Angelo, sold the business to the owners of the Holiday Grill in 2006. As first reported on Livingstontalk.com, the Holiday Grill closed in December.

Now, the new Brunner’s, with new booths, paint and menu, will serve breakfast and lunch daily, as it stays open until 3 p.m. The renovated restaurant also features wireless Internet for patrons, as well as static-free satellite radio.

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Talking Points

Life

  • Turn that Facebook frown upside down, part 2
    By Tonya Nagy

    Editor’s note: The first installment of Tonya Nagy’s very funny “Turn your Facebook frown upside down” blog ran in October. Since then, Nagy’s fans have been clamoring for more.

    Just this week, Livingstontalk.com started running a single Nagy status update daily in our new “...

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  • Too big, too fast for spiderplant
    By Gretchen Voyle

    I have a spider plant that grew rapidly and got too big for its pot. So I bought a new pot that is twice as big as the old one. The plant has quite a bit of territory to spread now. But the soil won’t dry out and the plant is getting yellow. This pot has a drain hole and I am very...

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  • What's in a name?
    By Arla McPeek

    My classical music trio has a problem. We’re ready to market our group as a band for hire, but we can’t agree what to call ourselves. If we spent half as much time practicing our music as we’ve put into thinking of a name, we’d be playing Carnegie Hall instead of trolling for wedding gigs.

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  • Beauty, brains, and black eyes
    By Gabrielle Montesanti

    What defines an individual? When I pass strangers on the street or bump into another student at school, their appearance dictates everything I quickly assume about them. As convenient as it would be to open another’s mind like a chest of drawers to examine their memories and morals, humanity...

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Maria

  • Meet the man who gave Livingston County its racist reputation
    By Maria Stuart

    There is one reason why Livingston County has long battled a reputation as a haven for racists, a place where minorities, especially blacks, should fear to tread: Bob Miles.

    Miles, who died in 1992, was a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. He lived about 10 miles north of county-seat...

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News

Buddy

  • Apple's new iPad: Worst name ever, best product ever
    By Buddy Moorehouse

    Doggone you, Steve Jobs. Doggone you. Thanks to you, I'm going to have to go out and get yet another Apple product that I didn't know I needed.

    Jobs, as you know, is the genius who runs Apple. He's the man who gave us the the iMac, the iBook, the iPod, the iPhone and a whole lot iMore. On...

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