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Page 2 The Pontiac News January 11 - 24, 2013 Editorial Help Us Celebrate Obama Says “Everyone Must Pay Their Fair Share” Then Sticks it to Black History Month The Pontiac News will be publishing a the Poor and Middle Class Special Black History Month Issue in February By: Jim Hoft 2013 relative to 2012 – not only on high- 2013. We will focus on the political, religious, income households, as widely discussed, but educational, athletic, artistic, musical and other Remember this? also on every working man and woman in contributions made by African-American organi- Obama demanding over and over again the country, via the end of the payroll tax zations, families and individuals to the city, state, that every American must pay their fair share cut,’ said William G. Gale, co-director of the country and the world. You can contribute to this But that was sooo last week. Tax Policy Center. effort by purchasing an ad, submitting photos or Now we find out that under the new ‘For most households, the payroll tax fiscal cliff plan workers making less than takes a far bigger bite than the income tax articles. Please call 248-758-1411 or email thep- $30,000 a year will take a bigger hit than does, and the payroll tax cut therefore – as [email protected] for more informa- those making $500,000 a year. [the Congressional Budget Office] and Publisher R. Frank Russell tion. The Daily Mail reported: others have shown – was a more effective Middle-class workers will take a bigger stimulus than income tax cuts were, hit to their income proportionately than because the payroll tax cuts hit lower in the those earning between $200,000 and income distribution and hence were more Pontiac Silverdome roof deflated $500,000 under the new fiscal cliff deal, likely to be spent,’ he added. according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy It figures. ahead of 2013 renovations Center. Earners in the latter group will pay an By Associated Press Thursday January 3 will save energy costs average 1.3 percent more – or an additional Inside This Issue of and clear the way for a more efficient renew- $2,711 – in taxes this year, while workers Crews renovating the Pontiac Silverdome able alternative. The 80,300-seat stadium making between $30,000 and $200,000 will The have deflated the roof ahead of the start of was completed in 1975 at a cost of $55 see their paychecks shrink by as much as 1.7 Pontiac News work to return the former home of the million in the dollars of that time. It was sold percent – or up to $1,784 – the D.C.-based Editorial – Obama Silverdome - Burch Ad .2 Detroit Lions to use. Silverdome events at auction in 2009 for $583,000. think tank reported. coordinator Alex Loewy says stadium owner The Lions played at the Silverdome until Overall, nearly 80 percent of house- Drugs Kids & Guns . .3 Triple Investment Group LLC will begin 2002. The team now plays at Ford Field in holds will pay more money to the federal Quincy Stewart – Local Jazz Pioneer . .4 renovations this spring and summer. He says Detroit. government as a result of the fiscal cliff work will include a new roof with solar From The Detroit News: deal. What’s Happening Oakland County . 5 panels. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2013010 ‘The economy needs a stimulus, but U S Troops Africa . .6 According to Mr. Loewy the deflation on 3/METRO02/301030460#ixzz2HWR3OPPI under the agreement, taxes will go up in Carters Corner . 7 Laundry Lounge & Cheez It Pizza . .8 Lafayette Place Lofts & Market . .9 OCEDC Kenneth R. Burch, Sr. P.C. 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He had been diagnosed Psychiatrists have come forward to assert said in November with ADHD and depression and was taking that certain psychiatric medications, such as 2012, “Violence and Zoloft and other drugs for the medical condi- those known as selective serotonin reuptake other potentially tions. inhibitors (SSRIs), are almost certainly the criminal behavior • On September 23, 2008, Matti Saari, a chemical cause of a high number of instances caused by prescrip- 22-year-old culinary student at Seinäjoki of random violence and suicide in which tion drugs are medi- University of Applied Sciences in Western SSRIs have been present. cine’s best kept Finland, shot and killed nine students and a The research challenges the pharmaceu- secret.” teacher, and wounded another student before tical industry’s defense that the high correla- The psychiatric killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI tion between random violence and the pres- profession and phar- and a benzodiazapine. ence of these medications is due to the maceutical industry • On February 14, 2008, Steven mental illness itself, not the drugs being have come under fire Kazmierczak, 27, shot and killed five people prescribed for the illness. Other critics of the for the practice of and wounded 21 others before killing industry claim that drugs tend to be too giving doctors signif- himself at Northern Illinois University in aggressively marketed and over-prescribed. icant financial incentives for prescribing • On September 26, 1988, James Wilson, DeKalb, Illinois. According to his girlfriend, The media has reported that the suspected certain medications. 19 and on various psychiatric drugs, took a he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax shooter in the Sandy Hook multiple killings, Dr.