2008 Woodie Awards
Editorial Articles
A money pit
Pita Pit owner jeopardizes students' finances by withholding pay
Mount Pleasant's Pita Pit seemed to be a respectable operation. The food was good. The service was good. But Curtis Turner, the shop's owner, was far from respectable, and he drove the restaurant into the ground. He went MIA on the corporate office. Last month he received notification of his numerous franchise agreement violations; he responded only with false promises, said the general counsel for the corporate office.
Children educate on alcohol
Young students take stand on drinking and driving
Mayes Elementary students are currently engaged in an eight-week, classroom-based, alcohol-use prevention curriculum called "Protecting You, Protecting Me." Over the past six weeks, students have learned a great deal about the costs of underage drinking and drinking and driving.
Subsidize party
Lansing shouldn't play favorites
The biggest legal problem for the early Michigan primary had nothing to do with the date or who was on the ballot. Instead, Michigan Democrats and Republicans wrote a cute little phrase that, for the first time, would have given the voting data to only the state Republican and Democratic parties.
