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Local leaders attend chamber event

By Art Aisner
On the
RAIL
Special Writer

More than 200 area leaders in business, gov-

ernment and education got a glimpse of the
issues and people that will dominate the Nov. 2
general election at the Impact 2010 conference
Friday in Ann Arbor.
“This year’s election is a watershed election,
possibly the most consequential of this decade,”
said Phil Power, founder and president of the
Center for Michigan. The nonprofit organiza-
tion partnered with the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti
Regional Chamber of Commerce to host the
annual public-policy forum at the Kensington
Court hotel in Ann Arbor.
During his keynote speech, Power outlined
how voters will elect an entire new leadership
team, from governor to the secretary of state.
Half of the House of Representatives and 29 of
38 state senator positions also will be filled by
newcomers this year. The impact is enormous
and could define the state for the next half
century, Power argued, as those elected officials
will be tasked with redrawing congressional
districts following the 2010 U.S. Census. They
also could have a hand in rewriting the Michigan
Constitution and tax policy.
“The people who come into office are going to
be largely inexperienced. That may be good; that
may be bad,” he warned.
To help leaders from all professional disci-
plines learn about the issues that voters will
decide at the polls, the organizers assembled
panelists from across the political spectrum and
even provided visits from high-profile candidates
at the top of each major party’s ticket.
The Constitutional Convention Sports
Michigan law dictates that every 16 years vot- The Gabriel Richard football
ers get the opportunity to vote on whether to team is heading to the play-
Dr. Rob Steele (left), the Republican candidate for the 15th offs for a second straight year.
redraft the state Constitution. For the first time Congressional District that covers eastern Wastenaw County,
talks about the issues with a Saline resident last week during Page 1-B
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Men face ON THE WEB

charges
after pot
clinic
robbery
By Art Aisner
Special Writer
The trio of men that attempt-
ed a bold robbery at a medi-
cal marijuana dispensary in
downtown Ann Arbor last week
watched traffic at the building
for some time, investigators
said.
Terrence Robinson, 34, Andre
White, 32, and Marcus Bailey,
18, were not too forthcoming
with details about how they
planned the Sept. 30 heist, said
Detective Sgt. Pat Hughes of the
Ann Arbor Police Department.
But it’s clear they were watch-
ing activity at the Liberty Clinic
for an unknown period of time.
“These individuals were
coming in from out of town and
deliberately planned this out
over some time,” Hughes said.
All three were arraigned over
the weekend at the Washtenaw
County Jail on charges of
armed robbery, conspiracy to
commit armed robbery and
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White, of Royal Oak, and
Robinson, of Detroit, received INDEX
$150,000 cash bonds. Bailey’s
bond was set at $25,000, and Second Front Page 7-A
he remained in custody as of Editorial Page 8-A
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Preliminary hearings for all
three armed robbery suspects
are scheduled for Oct. 13 in
Washtenaw County District
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by a lawyer at arraignment,
but Ann Arbor- based attorney
David Goldstein could not be
reached for comment. Different
public defenders were assigned
to represent both White and
Robinson.
Ann Arbor police said they
arrested the three men after a
brief scuffle inside the clinic/
dispensary, located in the 200
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By Austen Smith
A2 Journal
When Michigan residents in
2008 voted in a measure approv-
ing the use of medical mari-
juana for qualified patients, the
state suddenly found itself on
the front lines of a national legal
and ideological battleground.
Residents, elected officials,
planners and attorneys for
many local municipalities are
embroiled in debate and confu-
sion over the Michigan Medical
Marihuana Act, which was
approved by more than 63 per-
cent of the state’s population.
It is an emotional struggle,
pitting those who are trying
to understand and reasonably
enforce the law against those
who see it as a basic healthcare
and human rights issue.
And for the time being, there
seems to be little, if any, light at
the end of the tunnel.
In the city of Ypsilanti, the
Politics aside, it is local gov-
first medical marijuana dispen-
ernment and residents caught in
sary in the entire state opened
the trenches of this struggle as
in January, thrusting into the
the legal nuances of the medical
hands of local officials the com-
marijuana law will invariably
shake out in the courtroom.
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