Pat’s Bits & Pieces- Feds really need to learn how to budget
Pat Maurer, Review Correspondent I sure wish our state and federal legislators would get their s— together. Michigan is looking at $140 million in federal budget cuts because of the automatic cuts last Friday. That means less for the Department of Defense, which I guess I would rather see than some of the other things on that so called “meat-ax” list. Specifically education. $22 million is coming from primary and secondary education; more than $20 million in funds for teachers and aids for disabled children is eliminated; Head Start and Early Head Start services will be stopped for 2,300 children; [...]
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Pat’s Bits & Pieces- Marvelous muddy March is here!!
Pat Maurer, Review Correspondent Today is possibly my favorite day of the whole year. Oh, it isn’t my birthday, anniversary or any special day at all. It is just the first day of the month that is hinting that winter weather might soon be over. February, the longest month of the year is finally over again and it will be eleven months before it rolls around again. Call me Pollyanna (only those of you in my age bracket will have the slightest idea what that means…) but I am looking forward to the next eight of those months! March, the [...]
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Pat’s Bits & Pieces- Be extra careful out there!
Pat Maurer, Review Correspondent I am tired of talking about the weather and I am sure you are tired of hearing about it, so guess I will write this week’s column about one of the effects of it. I’m talking about people – including myself – falling on the ice. I don’t ever remember so many people saying they had fallen until this year. I managed to fall under the bird feeder Monday and ended up spending about three hours at a very busy emergency room waiting for the x-rays to come back to see if anything was broken. Jack [...]
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Pat’s Bits & Pieces- OMG – It’s still February
Pat Maurer, Review Correspondent Well it is, but it’s now officially half over. If you haven’t guessed, I’m talking about February again and now there’s only 13 more days to make it through. And haven’t we had some wild weather this month? Rain, snow, ice, more rain, more snow, more ice…only the kids are loving this – they’ve had four extra vacation days already this month! The best thing I can think of about February is that there is only one month like it in the whole year. Actually there are a couple of other good things… First it is [...]
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Pat’s Bits & Pieces- No signs of spring yet!!
Pat Maurer, Review Correspondent Our winter cold snap is continuing with only a couple brief forays by the mercury up into the 30s over the past two weeks. The thermometer keeps flirting with zero, making it hard for me to justify a trip anywhere outside of this house… Although it hardly ever happens, the Tobacco, just upstream from our bridge is frozen over for about 30 feet, the second time already this winter. It has been cold. Guess we are getting paid back for a mild winter last year, early spring, and a long warm fall. One positive note is [...]
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