About L.A.W.


  • MOTTO: Qui male agit odit lucem. ("He who does evil despises the light.")

  • PUBLISHER: Local Area Watch, Inc. ~ a Michigan non-profit corporation ~ Copyright 2002-2007

  • STAFF: William Tingley, Executive Director ~ Bridget Tingley, Editor ~ Mary Hines, Office Manager ~ Robert Harrison, Photographer

  • CONTACT INFO: Local Area Watch Inc. ~ 1009 Ottawa Avenue, N.W. ~ Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 ~ ph 616-458-3125 ~ fx 616-454-9958

Highlights

  • Bio-Tech Blather
    Watch your wallets, boys and girls. The politicians and the corporate panhandlers are about to put a big bet on the bio-tech boom with your tax dollars and charitable donations.
  • Dumping Scandal FAQ's
    Answers to the main questions about the dumping of hazardous waste at the Monroe Avenue Water Filtration Plant and other dumpsites.
  • Gutless U-M Caves on Bronzes
    Art endures, if obscured, in that grotty little fiefdom of intellectual poseurs and petty inquisitions that has become the University of Michigan.
  • Kent County Medical Examiner Compromised
    In a glaring conflict of interest, Kent County Medical Examiner Stephen Cohle whitewashes autopsies that could have revealed misconduct by Spectrum Health and Laboratory Pathologists, a staffing firm Cohle owns and operates.
  • Living Wage Kills Jobs
    City pols support a Marxist policy that, like all Marxist policies, hurt the very people they say it will help.
  • Local Prof Sez We're Bible-Beating Bigots
    Outspoken GVSU professor Ben Rudolph gets it wrong when he concludes that River City's "conservative" values are wrecking the local economy.
  • Lost Cause
    A story of how River City lost its way to a secure economic future.
  • Mayor Heartwell: The Best Investment in Town
    The mayor takes a campaign contribution from a lobbying firm and then awards it a $70,000 city contract.
  • Poison
    The nasty nature of the 26,000 tons of poison that The Boardwalk's developers dug up and then dumped upon the rest of us.
  • The Fixer
    A four-part series about the local attorney behind the demise of Autodie, Butterworth Hospital, Amway, and Old Kent. Warning: Strong accusations of corruption, greed, and skullduggery. Not for the feint of heart.
  • The Flying Monkey Brigade
    Lysenkoists now rule and dictate what citizens will and will not discuss as science in the public square -- especially, the public school classroom.
  • The Pig in the Python
    The dirty little secret behind the success and failure of every school reform that the education establishment, the public school bureaucrats, and the teachers unions will never reveal.
  • The Problem With Teachers
    Why teachers are the professionals least suited to run a school district -- or even a school.
  • Thirty-Six Bucks
    Balancing the City budget: Maybe it's time for those making a living on the taxpayer's dime to give up a little instead of sticking it to the taxpayer one more time.
  • Urban League Takes a Wrong Turn
    The Grand Rapids chapter of this venerable civil rights organization took a step backward with its dubious report finding institutionalized racism in area police forces.
  • When Will It Stop?
    Enough of the repulsive tactic of accusing everyone of bigotry who doesn't kowtow to the racemongers.
  • Who Tickets the Cops?
    State highway patrolmen flout the law on our freeways.
  • Yeah, and Summer is Hotter Than Winter
    The Grand Rapids Press ignores science to promote feel-good politics on the environment and becomes the watchdog that doesn't bark.

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Steve Smith

I agree with you 100% on Heartwell's hypocrisy, but I wonder...are all people who believe the Iraq war was a bad idea friutcakes, or just the ones who have time on their hands to march around?

GR Person

How can you group the right to life/choose with the war? The war came about because the president wanted this since the leader of Iraq threaten to kill his father. There was no WMD, and as all us Americans with more than 1/2 a brain know that the 9/11 so called terroists attrackes was an inside job. They want us to be afraid very afraid. Come on if this was all true, that the bad peole was on our door step, would this great leader of our country tell us to protect ourselves with plastic wrap and duct tape from more terriosts attackes? They are the ones using WMD to get what they want. Google Loose Change and please watch it with an open mind and get from it what you want, just please don't believe everythihng that is being fed to you.

The Executive Director

Hi, Steve.

The silly people marching around with signs are the fruitcakes.

Regards, Bill

The Executive Director

GR Person,

First, you should be ashamed of yourself for endorsing the 9/11 conspiracy theory filth of the "Loose Change" crowd. Second, your first sentence shows you missed the entire point of the article.

Bill Tingley
Executive Director, L.A.W.

Jeff Winston

If anyone were paying attention, you would have known that Heartwell did declare his pro-choice position. His endorsement by the Progressive Women's Alliance and the fact that his 'army' of volunteers consisted nearly entirely of PWA volunteers shows his Pro-Choice stance. The Life/Choice issue is their political litmus test. Rinck's campaign filled out the PWA questionnaire and refused to answer the Life/Choice question. We received a call from PWA stating that they would not consider a candidate who did not openly support choice. Therefore, Heartwell = Choice. He was simply too cowardly to say so openly on the campaign trail.

The Executive Director

Hi, Jeff.

I agree that the PWA endorsement revealed Heartwell's general position on the issue (as we have noted elsewhere). I also agree the Heartwell's concealment of that position from the general public was unprincipled.

Regards, Bill

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