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editorial: AnnArbor.com endorses Debbie Stabenow in U.S. Senate race
Michigan's U.S. Senate race features a two-term incumbent from East Lansing and a former U.S. Congressman from Western Michigan as Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow is challenged by Republican Pete Hoekstra. Of the two, we believe Stabenow is the best choice for Washtenaw County voters.
Hoekstra's stance on fiscal responsibility and job growth will resonate with voters, who nationally are prioritizing economic issues as among the top concerns in this election.
However, Stabenow is the candidate who we believe will most effectively speak for the goals of most Washtenaw County voters as she makes decisions as a U.S. Senator.
Like Hoekstra, that includes support of key business concerns. Stabenow says she prioritizes the economy: Stabenow speaks of high-speed rail and clean energy manufacturing as areas of importance to the region. Also on her list: Education, the environment and equal rights.
During her current term, she said she's been most proud of advocating for the American auto industry. The recovery of that industry includes job growth across Michigan, including in and near Ann Arbor — at the same time as it bolsters the entire U.S. economy amid ongoing concerns about the federal deficit, European financial problems and slow growth.
Auto industry growth from innovation continues to be among Stabenow's goals, which she's pursuing for Michigan via participation in the federal request for a new site for a National Advanced Battery Innovation Hub. The approval of that hub was among the key provisions of Stabenow's Battery Innovation Act, initiated in 2011.
Battery innovation remains a target for the auto industry and offers ongoing opportunity to researchers in Southeast Michigan, particularly the Ann Arbor area. The recent bankruptcy of A123 Systems and,before that, Solyndra, brought into question the federal government's role in financing the endeavors. We believe that's appropriate, given the hundreds of millions in public money that backed the respective companies. However, theopportunity to encourage and find markets for alternative energy should still be a federal goal even as we encourage it to stop that degree of financing for single entities.
Stabenow's committees also give her a key role in decision-making: She's chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; and she sits on the Senate Budget Committee, Senate Energy Committee; and Senate Finance Committee, making decisions on issues like Social Security, Medicare and trade policy.
Many elected offices will be decided on Nov. 6 by economic concerns of voters. We find Stabenow's stated concern for middle-income and senior citizen voters to be a balance with the business interests that have endorsed her, like the Detroit Regional Chamber, and environmental groups like Clean Water Action.
A politician will struggle to reflect the will of all voters, but the range of interest groups supporting Stabenow affirms our own decision that Washtenaw County will be well-represented if she earns a third term in the U.S. Senate.
AnnArbor.com endorsements are the results of AnnArbor.com interviews with candidates and reporting. The endorsement team includes Laurel Champion, executive vice president; Paula Gardner, community news director; and members of Gardner's staff, including Bob Needham, entertainment director and former Ann Arbor News editorial page editor; and Cindy Heflin, managing producer.


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How will I, with such crude means available, empart what cannot be comitted to written word? "All of Heaven", they say, "is contained in a dew-drop". Perhaps, then, it can be done.
Where do I begin? Such contrivance can hardly be reconciled with reality outside of human conventions of speech..."begin". But, yes, flowers bloom and storms come and pass. Patterns are made manifest in the sky, as if by means of a calligrapher's brush. The ink? Water, earth, fire, air, mixed indeed, but no container is to be seen anywhere. The paper? Again, none to be known. What we call "paper" is also that composite ink. Self? From where? some would say ink needs paper if there are to be patterns. the ink of a scholar indeed requires paper. But not this ink; not this calligrapher. Even this four-fold division I mentioned is a contrivance. Ah, but wonders never cease, and poems are written ever anew.
And so, we find ourselves in the midst of these poems, expressing all manner of sentiments: joy, awe, grief and all the wile we see all things written in three-versed stanzas of a short and spark-like nature; that is to say, each moment is one such stanza.
And I thus return to what one may presume to be the "main" thing. "Main"... is anything ever "main" in any story? Conjecture. Convention. What is "main" in a garden, or a house? Shall one rate the earth as "main" and plants "second"? folly. plants "main" and ground "second"? Madness. And from among plants, again, which "main" and which second? And from among doors, windows and walls and floor and ceiling, who, again , can choose?
Ink... all ink; the Ink of mystery... That mystery which is the sectretless Secret; to man alone the game of weaving secrets is dear. Forests have none and they [secrets] are strange things indeed to come across in the heavens. Everything is but a poem waiting to be read; the mere reason that we have not yet read one stanza yet means not that it is "hidden", rather it means it simply is in its suchness and awaits a reader.
All thing pervaded by this ink, by its water, by its flow; and yet its substance is neither seen nor revealed in any separate, "pure" form. It is form, and form is it. Orchids, sparrows, men, women and mountains alike arise from the calligrapher's hand, but there is no pen. Stranger still, this calligrapher is himself a verse, ink spread across a sheet of flowing vapor. The ink flows by patterns never-changing yet ever new; songs are born from its ondulations, tears flow forth from its curves and lines and dots. And so all things are made one and were one and so will they remain--nameless Wonder and sourceless Fount.
In the midst of this arcane yet ever-evident writing, who can hate and who can love? these also are stanzas; know it, and all dispute and trouble will cease.
Leaves fall into the lake,
Circles across the surface,
Ducks are fed bred.
Theere is no greater Mystery than the above.