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State Rep. Andy Meisner, D-Ferndale, was named to head a state House mental
health subcommittee created to address Michigan's criminalization of the mentally
ill.
"Growing up in a home where my father suffered from men-
tal illness, I have made reform of our broken mental health sys-
tem a priority," Meisner said. "As chairman of the newly formed
Judiciary Subcommittee on Mental Health, I will use this expe-
rience and service on Gov. Granholm's Michigan Mental Health
Commission to help our state pursue smarter, proven strategies
for addressing this difficult challenge'
Meisner was appointed by Paul Condino, D-Southfield, chair
of the Judiciary Committee. "Andy's personal experience with
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Meisner also chairs the House Commerce Committee and sits on the New
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Jewish facilities near the Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West
Bloomfield will be affected by road construction this spring.
The Oakland County Road Commission (OCRC) will build a roundabout at
the intersection of Maple and Drake roads, beginning in late April or early May.
Construction is expected to take eight weeks.
Drake Road will be closed in both directions at Maple during the project, but
Maple will remain open, according to OCRC spokesman Craig Bryson. However,
traffic on Maple could experience construction delays.
When the Maple-Drake project is completed, a second roundabout will be
constructed this summer at Maple and Farmington roads. Plans call for four
roundabouts on Maple and four on 14 Mile, where they intersect Orchard Lake,
Farmington, Drake and Haggerty roads.
Bryson said the roundabouts are the safest, most efficient choice to move traffic
through the busy intersections. "It's not like a traffic circle, where you stop and then
make a 90-degree turn to get in the circle," he said. "This is more like a freeway
entrance ramp" where traffic merges.
He said roundabouts force traffic to slow down, reduce accidents in general and
eliminate the worst types of accidents — head-on and broadside collisions.
Oakland County currently has four roundabouts: in Orion Township on Baldwin
Road, two on Tienkin Road on the Rochester-Rochester Hills border, and on Loop
Road in Commerce Township, northeast of M-5 and 14 Mile roads.
When Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss of the Neturei Karta sect was chosen to speak at a
forum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, student David Stiebel of West
Bloomfield, a graduate of the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit,
made sure to voice his displeasure.
Rabbi Weiss and his small ultra-Orthodox sect are widely known for their anti-
Zionist feelings. In fact, Weiss stood with Arab-American and Muslim leaders last
year at a rally in Dearborn to protest the war in Lebanon.
As president of MIT's Students for Israel, Stiebel took a stand against the choice
of Rabbi Weiss as a speaker at the forum a few weeks ago. Imam Mohammed al-
Asi, a critic of Saudi Arabia, also was considered a controversial choice for some
members of the Muslim community
"What people fail to realize is that we [the Jewish community] are so upset,
concerned and insulted, not because of what he [Weiss] will say, but that he has
been chosen to represent the 'Jewish view," Stiebel told the MIT student newspaper
before the forum.
During the forum, the paper said, Weiss primarily discussed how he was "against
Zionism" and how he believes in "the peaceful dismantling of the Israeli state."
Stiebel described Weiss' speech as "disgusting rhetoric!' He said, "It was what I
expected: at every chance he got he bashed Israel."
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