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Catching up

Catching up

We apologize for our silence the past few days. It's not for a lack of things to discuss, however. It's just that we're on an academic calendar and have been caught up with sundry back-to-school tasks and responsibilities. That said, we're doing a little catching up...

On Enbridge and exemptions, Part 3

On Enbridge and exemptions, Part 3

Over the past several days, we've been commenting upon Christopher Behnan’s Daily Press & Argus story, an article (in our opinion) that advances Enbridge's claims that they are exempt from seeking local consent. This morning, a similar story by Eric Lawrence...

More from the NTSB report

If, like so many of our state elected officials, you have yet to read the NTSB report on the Marshall spill, we urge you once more to do so. But if you are understandably disinclined (or just don't have the time) to pore over more than 100 pages of federal...

On Enbridge and exemptions, part 2

On Enbridge and exemptions, part 2

We mentioned this morning that we have quite a lot to say about Christopher Behnan's Daily Press & Argus story this morning. If you missed part 1, discussing whether Enbridge is, in fact, "exempt" from the Howell Township ordinance, it's here. On that question, we...

On Enbridge and exemptions, part 1

If you haven't seen it yet, the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus has (finally, at long last!) published an article about the Howell Township ordinance, which we've been mentioning for weeks. We have so much to say about it, we're going to address it in...

Exempt from local ordinance?!

We have a LOT to say about Christopher Behnan's article this morning about Enbridge and the Howell Township ordinance. It is deeply disturbing, even more disturbing (if you can believe it) than Behnan's article yesterday about Enbridge's cozy arrangement with the...

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