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Hoekstra Defends Super Bowl Ad
FOX 17 News ReporterU.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra is defending a campaign ad that ran during the Super Bowl portraying a Chinese woman in broken English in a rice field. “We knew we were taking an aggressive approach on this,” said Hoekstra in a conference...Tags: Elections, Politics, Super Bowl, U.S. Senate
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Senate candidate Hoekstra looking to reverse the country's direction
EDWARDSBURG — Looking for improvement in the economy? It’s not likely to happen over the next 14 months, as President Barack Obama and lawmakers occupying U.S. House and Senate seats focus their attention on keeping their jobs, says Pete...Tags: Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rick Snyder, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Senate panel will investigate MF Global collapse
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat and Republican on a key Senate panel say Congress should look deeply into what led to the collapse of MF Global, a trading firm run by one of their former colleagues. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the chairman of the...Tags: MF Global, Financial Markets, Bankruptcy, Washington, DC, FBI
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Listen up, hired hands
It just might be that no one takes Congress too seriously because its members take themselves so seriously. How else do you explain a public approval rating of only 9 percent and still not one hint of any change in the collective behavior that has...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Politics, Agriculture, White House
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Senator Joins Fight Against Imitators Stealing Jeweler's Designs
FOX 17 NewsLisa Lehmann creates handcrafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry. Recently, she found herself the victim of online fraud. More specifically, Lehmann found cheap imitations of her designs on a Chinese website called alibaba.com. According to Lehmann the site...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Theft
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Not just M.I.A.: Super Bowl political ad using Asian woman decried
Nation NowIt wasn’t just singer M.I.A. who got into hot water for her actions during Super Bowl XLVI. Republican senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra stirred the pot with a political ad that featured an Asian woman speaking broken English which sparked... -
Hoekstra makes campaign stop in Bay View
Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra,R-Holland, met Monday with local Republicans at Stafford's Bay View Inn to discuss his vision if elected.
The Emmet County Republican Women hosted the former Congressman, who hopes to challenge incumbent Sen. Debbie...Tags: Human Interest, Education, Charter Schools, Mitt Romney, Government Health Care
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Stabenow to speak at Marquette Economic Club
MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow is delivering the keynote address at the Marquette Economic Club during a daylong visit to the Upper Peninsula. The Lansing Democrat is the chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture,...Tags: Forestry and Timber
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Will the next farm bill be written by budget cutters?
The biggest activity in Washington between now and Thanksgiving is the focus on the so-called “super committee,” those 12 Democrats and Republicans charged with reducing the deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. Lobbyists,...Tags: Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Jon Kyl, Patty Murray, John Kerry, Collin Peterson
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Lawmakers announce funds for Michigan airports
DETROIT (AP) — Lawmakers from Michigan say projects at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and MBS International Airport will be getting millions of dollars in federal funding. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin announced Tuesday that Detroit Metropolitan Airport...Tags: Carl Levin, Justice System, Detroit
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Bipartisan Agriculture research bill to spur innovation, strengthen American agriculture
Washington, DC – Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator John Thune (R-SD), a Member of the Committee, today introduced a bipartisan bill that will spur new...Tags: Ron Wyden, Forestry and Timber, Medical Research, Thad Cochran, Washington, DC
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Tea Table Community Notes Friday, Sept. 16, 2011
Births A daughter, Zoey Elizabeth Henson, was born to Amber and Michael Henson of Boyne Falls at 12:05 p.m. Sept. 2, 2011, at Northern Michigan Regional Hospital, Petoskey. Zoey weighed 8 pounds, 1.2 ounces at birth. She has a brother, Kaydin Henson, 5,...Tags: HIV, Ameriprise Financial Incorporated, Pharmaceuticals, Entertainment, Health Treatments
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