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Rat on the run

Posted on December 1, 2012 by admin

Those were the days. When you could phone out for finely-prepared muskrat and have the delicacy delivered right to your doorstep. I wrote about that delicious moment in time when I was a reporter with the Detroit Free Press. A … Continue reading →

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Let them eat muskrat!

Posted on November 25, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Hey, Zlati — I’d like to cook a rat for you! And then I’d like to thank you, Zlati Meyer of the Detroit Free Press, for giving me an excuse to run those muskrat stories I wrote … Continue reading →

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Lowell’s oddball bridge

Posted on November 18, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell LOWELL, Mich. — It doesn’t attract as many tourists as Italy’s Ponte Vecchio, but Lowell’s Main Street Bridge bears a certain similarity to that 14th-century pedestrian span over the Arno River in Florence. Lowell’s bridge, barely 100 … Continue reading →

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Don’t count Matty out

Posted on November 12, 2012 by admin

Do you think the bully billionaire of Grosse Pointe’s dream of holding onto his international bridge monopoly is dead? That just because 60 percent of voters torpedoed his Prop 6 attempt at patenting his Ambassador Bridge in the Michigan Constitution, … Continue reading →

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Props 1-6: How I voted

Posted on November 2, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell No on Prop. 1 — emergency municipal managers. Michigan has had an emergency financial manager law since 1990 that has returned many local governments to solvency. The constitutional amendment would give managers power to tear up municipal … Continue reading →

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Hey, Donald — you are full of what?

Posted on November 2, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Thank God this is not a family newspaper. I can report exactly what Chrysler vice president Ralph Gilles tweeted about Donald Trump. Without resorting to #$&%! Full of shit. That’s what Gilles said. According to the Detroit … Continue reading →

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QST, CQ push MOUSE CODE

Posted on November 1, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell The American Radio Relay League sold out its first stock of my new book,  MOUSE CODE. More copies are being printed and rushed to League headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. Meanwhile, CQ Magazine and its sister publication, Worldradio, have … Continue reading →

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Little brown jug o’ lakes

Posted on October 28, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell The football rivalry between the Wolverines and the Golden Gophers over the little brown jug isn’t the only bone of contention between Michigan and Minnesota. [The game will be played at noon Eastern time Saturday, November 3, … Continue reading →

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Excuses, excuses

Posted on October 15, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Oh, come on! The Detroit Tigers defeat the New York Yankees in the first two games of the American League Championship Series, and The New York Times puts the lamest of excuses on Page One: Gray Pinstripes: … Continue reading →

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Matty & UAW in bed???

Posted on October 12, 2012 by admin

By Joel Thurtell How can this be true? Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun hustling the UAW in a swap of support, Matty pumping millions into the unions’ November 6 constitutional amendment Proposal 2 making immutable workers’ right to unions for … Continue reading →

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