Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm recently created commissions to coordinate activities commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Idlewild resort community in Lake County, the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the bicentennial of the War of 1812 – all designed to increase awareness of Michigan’s cultural heritage and to support cultural economic development opportunities in the state.
A small store on Detroit’s southwest side, People’s Bakery, is the kind of building that can be easily overlooked if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
One of the questions I ask parents at our Power Paren-T-een workshops is, “What are you training your son for?” As you might guess, the answers vary per household. For various reasons many parents are in reaction mode most of the time when it comes to training. What I mean by that is training begins because some situation caused it to.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice study, nearly 25 percent of surveyed women said they were raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabitating partner, or date at sometime in their lifetime. According to these estimates, approximately 1.5 million women were raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually.
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