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The Notes of a North County Newsman

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Junior high Christmas caroling with Jay Buck: Deck the halls with buckets of slaw

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Jay, Aaron and I practiced singing the Christmas carols a few minutes in Jay’s basement before heading out into the freezing neighborhood....
Monday, October 29, 2012

Jay Buck: An L-Town Elegy

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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A new year, a new life

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The classic image of the New Year is a baby. A smiling, cherubic baby with a 2012 banner around its body, signifying the promise of the year...
Monday, October 17, 2011

A suspense bridge: Leaving my man-card in the U.P.

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Like every good American man, I ain’t afraid of nothing. I eat steaks, drink whisky and scoff at danger. If I get a nail in my hand, I take ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Working stiffs: The Great American Job is dead and gone

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Someone who is unemployed is watching television in their parents’ basement right now. There are thousands of them. And they’re not young an...

Another Ice Age or Dark Age?

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As a child, I used to go to the Outer Banks of North Carolina this time of year on family vacations. We had planned on going again this year...

“All changed, changed utterly”: A view from Chicago on 9/11

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Ten years ago I was 23 and living like most do at that age: desperate, impoverished, wildly irresponsible. I had graduated from Wayne State ...
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John Counts
Whitmore Lake, Michigan, United States
I am a newsman and a writer in Michigan. Most of this blog features the award-winning weekly column I wrote at the Manistee News Advocate between 2009 and 2012. From 2012 to 2016, I was a crime reporter at The Ann Arbor News. I'm currently a writer on MLive.com's statewide Impact team.
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