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Something Else About Which to Be Embarrassed

In this article, reference is made to the "6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals."

At one time, the intermediate federal appellate court was known as the "United States Circuit Court of Appeals." In 1948, however, the name was changed to "United States Court of Appeals." So, the reference in the article should read "6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals."

The change was made in 1948. I thought Wikipedia was more current than that.

John Paul Parks (talk) 13:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than grousing, you could be bold and fix it yourself! Perhaps you should be embarrassed for preferring to complain rather than helping. older ≠ wiser 14:24, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, he shouldn't be embarrassed for pointing this mistake out, because it was 100% bush league.

Like the article

I think this is a decent article. If you all can come to some agreements regarding the article and make the writing more consistent, this could go to GA status or higher. ludahai 魯大海 02:20, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New website for extrernal links.

Governor Granholm's leadership fund, the Granholm Leadership Fund, has a new official website at www.JenniferGranholm.com. This should be listed in the external links section as it is one of her two primary websites.

"Majority"?

In the 2006 vote summary, the number posted as the "majority" is the difference between the vote totals of the winner and the next runner-up. Isn't the "majority" the difference between the winning vote total and 50%? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drcampbell (talk • contribs) 17:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mass Exodus from Michigan

I am a born-and-raised Michigander. It is due to policies from Jennifer Granholm and other tax-happy, anti-business Michigan state leaders that we "alumni" all left. An average-sized house in Detroit has over ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in annual property tax with NO businesses entering the state to help with this. Please allow a little more additions to the controversy section of this article --especially to a native "Wolverine" such as myself-- to explore the roadblocks facing my former state and what many of us who left would like to see done about it. Alzuun 22:42, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Seal-of-Michigan.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 09:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Controversies

After a few long discussions about this article, I went through news searches to find citations to controversies. I selected three of the most prominent ones: the Wayne County contracts from her primary (which one poll I read said that 18% of voters thought it was important to their decision); the Kilpatrick memo, which was one of the most prominent controversies of the 2002 campaign particularly because it arrived in late September and early October so close to the election; and the budget cuts with the Bible verse, because it did receive a fair amount of media and related directly to one of her most significant events over her first term, namely balancing the budget. There are several other controversies that have documented supported (e.g., lowering the flag for troops as an alleged protest to the war in Iraq; a statement regarding slave reparations; two Democrats petitioning Granholm not to hold a special election because they said their counties could not afford it; her appointment of Blackwell in Highland Park after firing Pearson; her dispute with Superintendent Tom Watkins; revealing that she failed to vote in a few local school board elections; her Christmas executive order barring the state from discriminating against homosexuals; her canceled visit to Marian High School, a Catholic school inviting her as a Catholic, due to her position on abortion; hiring 12 additional new lawyers in the waning days of her position as attorney general). I didn't think it would be appropriate to include every bit of minutiae, but I thought in case someone thinks that another one of these was worth placing on the page, I could finish the research on it and include it. Zz414 22:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC) Also.....what about getting her buddy into the Detroit Medical Center and the bailout...which seemed correct to do, but Duggan is one of her lawyer friends and is obviously at her beck and call. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.245.82.144 (talk) 04:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

adding a separate controversy section is against WP policy and those sections need to be placed inline with the rest of the text, not as currently... so I will do this myself btw. 72.0.180.2 (talk) 01:27, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michigander/Michiganian

Because of a naming dispute concerning what to call a Michigan native, I decided to use the term "Michigan native" in place of Michiganian or Michigander.

Swede- Finns

"She has some Finnish and Swedish ancestors who were born in the Swedish-speaking part of Finland." If they were all born in Finland, they are not Swedish, they are Finnish. They are Finns whose native tongue is Swedish. In Finland there are two official languages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diogenes99 (talk • contribs) 03:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not only Swedish, but Norwegian too

She was born in British Columbia by a immigrated Norwegian mother and an immigrated Swedish father. She has a Norwegian grand mother. I have added the Norwegian part to the bio.

http://www.wargs.com/political/granholm.html

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=3528

https://www.mlui.org/print.asp?fileid=16816


Mortyman (talk) 11:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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