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Mike Lahti: Candidate for Michigan House of Representatives, 110th District 

By Mike Lahti  Posted 10/21/2006  

HANCOCK -- Mike Lahti, Democratic candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives, 110th District, shares with Keweenaw Now readers his positions on key issues for the November 7, 2006 election. "I feel the most important issues facing the western U.P. and the State of Michigan are: jobs, education, health care and clean land and water," Lahti says. Lahti believes Michigan needs to encourage a business climate that creates jobs and keeps existing jobs. To ensure that Michigan children can compete for the jobs of the future, Lahti, notes, the state must fund K-12, college and university education. He also favors legislation to provide affordable health care for the uninsured, opposes diversion of Great Lakes water and calls for reducing the amount of out-of-state and Canadian trash filling Michigan landfills. more

Walking Against Violence

By Alexandra Matiella Novak  Posted 10/15/2006  

HOUGHTON -- Alexandra Matiella Novak, a survivor of domestic violence and now a children's worker for the Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter Home, shared her experience in a talk during the Walk Against Violence on July 19, 2006, in Houghton. The Gundlach Shelter Home and the Copper Country Humane Society collaborated on this special project to raise awareness about family violence that includes pets. Participants in the event included over 95 people and 38 dogs. Matiella Novak will also participate in the upcoming Candlelight Ceremony for Survivors of Domestic Violence to be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, at St. Albert the Great Catholic Church in Houghton. Her talk at the July Walk appeared recently in Off the Beaten Path, the newsletter of the Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter. It is reprinted here with permission and with our Keweenaw Now photos of the Walk. more

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