October 6, 2009
This collection of links to blog posts related to Michigan and Mid-Michigan will be published, hopefully, several times per week. If you have a blog related to Michigan that you’d like to recommend to me, please, e-mail the link to me at DougG52@gmail.com
I’ve read this blog post two different times and both times I think I instinctively grabbed an apple. Autumn is a great season in Michigan. (Blogging For Michigan: Autumn Dreams)
Speaking of apples, I spent some time on the recipes page of the Michigan Apples website. I’ve never considered apples on a pulled pork BBQ sandwich, but, looking at the picture they put with the recipe is making me reconsider. (Michigan Apples: Recipes)
Michigan Golf Blog has several entries up with Fall Golf specials for courses around the state. Sometimes summer felt like Fall this year, and golfing is never a bad answer when the question is how to fill time in an afternoon. (Michigan Golf Blog)
Michigan History: Hollywood’s First African-American Cowboy. (Absolute Michigan)
MLive.com started a Job Search blog a few weeks ago that is becoming a solid read. An entry from today that asks the question of whether Governor Granholm is too focused on green jobs. (MLive Job Search Blog)
That’s it for today, again if you have any links to Michigan related blog posts that you would like to see in this space, let me know.
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Posted by Douglas Graham
October 6, 2009
There will be plenty of time for Miguel Cabrera discussion after the Tigers season is over with. For now, he’s out there and there is evening baseball to be enjoyed. This is the second straight season that the AL Central is coming down to the a one game play-off to determine the Division champion. The AL Central might not be the best division in baseball, but it certainly has been competitive lately.
The Tigers send Rick Porcello to the mound against Scott Baker for the Twins. Porcello, being 20 years old probably will not have experienced a baseball atmosphere quite like what he will see in a raucous Metrodome. To read more about Porcello heading into today’s game, I recommend this MLive article on the confidence the Tigers are putting behind Porcello. Leyland calls it the “toughest place” Porcello will have ever pitched.
Here are a couple more links heading into the game today:
The Detroit Free Press looks back at the Twins and Tigers this season with a nice photo spread.
Tigers support being shown in-state from Michigan State Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio, as he sports a Tigers jacket to his press conference earlier today.
Detroit Tigers Weblog covers game 163.
Mack Avenue Tigers has a talk with a Twins blogger for thoughts on the game with some perspective from the opposing point of view.
Lastly, Rod Allen has implored Tigers fans, on the TV broadcasts all year long, to put aside doubts about this team and just enjoy the ride. The game today is one of the most enjoyable settings for baseball you can imagine. The one-game playoff can bring something special (I learned that all the way back in 1989 with the film Major League) and hopefully the Tigers will deliver today.
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Posted by Douglas Graham
September 30, 2009
I posted an article to Twitter this morning about a Michigan law that a state agency claims a woman is violating by watching the children of several sets of neighbors as they wait for a school bus. The article was picked up by the front page of Yahoo, so is likely getting some widespread exposure today.
Here is the core of the article:
IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood’s children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.
Regulators who oversee child care, however, don’t see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she’d be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.
According to the article, she did so because the other families were working and could not watch their children. To help out her neighbors, not to run a day-care. The situation provides an interesting look at the law and how it interacts with people on a daily basis. Specifically, in how we take situations in our daily lives to better the law.
Governor Jennifer Granholm and other state representatives look to be attacking this situation head-on, as new legislation that would exempt situations like this one is currently being drafted.
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Posted by Douglas Graham
September 29, 2009
The new term of the Supreme Court starts up this week and the Wall Street Journal has put together a solid overview of what to expect from the Court this term.
Here are a couple of the criminal cases that the Wall Street Journal says the Court will be covering this term:
U.S. v. Stevens
Can the government criminalize depiction of animal cruelty?
Congress banned such portrayals in 1999, but the law has led to just one prosecution, of a man who sold dogfight videos. An appeals court ruled the law violated free-speech protections. In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the government argues that like child pornography, depictions of animal cruelty can be banned because they contain no redeeming content and might fuel a market that encourages further harm to animals.
Dog-fighting has been a hot topic in the news recently with the return of Michael Vick to the NFL.
Graham v. Florida; Sullivan v. Florida
Is a sentence of life without parole for juvenile offenders constitutional?
In 2005, the court ruled it unconstitutional to execute juvenile offenders. In these two cases, the justices consider whether it also violates the Eighth Amendment ban on “cruel and unusual punishments” to sentence a juvenile offender to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for crimes where no one dies, such as rape or robbery.
U.S. v. Comstock
Do federal prisons have the authority to hold inmates past their sentences out of fear they will violate state law?
A 2006 federal law allows the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to keep inmates in custody after completing their sentences if it deems them to be “sexually dangerous.” A federal appeals court struck down the law as exceeding congressional powers because most sex offenses are state crimes, not federal.
This is all that was listed by the Wall Street Journal in terms of criminal law related cases that the Supreme Court’s new term will touch on. If I can find another article that covers other criminal law cases that the Court will look at this term, I will provide the link and post on it.
It should be an interesting area for criminal law in the Supreme Court as President Obama’s nominee of Sonia Sotomayor has her first term. Where Sotomayor will come down on many criminal law issues is still an unknown at this point.
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