Was your dog's food on the recall list?

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A pet food recall that has had consumers buzzing in recent weeks because of its breadth prompted the Food and Drug Administration to conduct an investigation of the plant that all of the food was produced.

Diamond Pet Foods' plant, which produces pet food for several companies including Wellness, Kirkland, Canidae, Solid Gold and others, is located in Gaston, S.C. Previously, had been suspended and had resumed.

On Tuesday, the FDA released the findings of their inspection by way of a Form 483 Report.

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The Michigan State Police have released the names from Tuesday night’s fatal rollover accident on Interstate 94 near Chelsea.

Jeremy Newsome, 17, of Jackson died when he was thrown from the vehicle. He was sitting in the back seat on the passenger side.

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The former Michigan football five-star defensive back signee will reportedly continue his college football career with coach Norm Chow at Hawaii, according to CBS college football writer Bruce Feldman.

Feldman reported that Dorsey will arrive at Hawaii in July and the school will have to petition for immediate eligibility this fall.

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But there's at least one prominent group who favors it: The guys who will play the games.

Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon spoke extensively with reporters Wednesday after the Big Ten concluded its three-day spring meetings in Chicago, and, like his colleagues, said he supports a four-team playoff that includes the Rose Bowl.

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The view of the MichCon site along the Huron River as viewed from the Broadway bridges. A major cleanup project is expected to start in August.

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Starting in August, DTE Energy plans to move forward with removing contaminated soils where MichCon once ran a manufactured gas plant along the south bank of the Huron River.

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Here's your guide to AnnArbor.com coverage of the issues. For a complete list of candidates running in local races, go to the county's elections website. And find out about proposals that will be on some township ballots here. Some candidate filings still are being confirmed.

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His three-run double in the eighth inning Tuesday snapped a 3-3 tie. Murray State would win 7-3.

Rhodes, the 2008 Ann Arbor News Player of the Year, is hitting .271 with five home runs and 36 RBIs in 50 games during his second season at Murray State. He played two years at Wabash Valley College, where he was an honorable mention All-American.

WPSD, an NBC affiliate in Paducah, Ken., has highlights of Rhodes' game-winning hit:

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Happy birthday to Adam Richman!  He's the host of the Travel Channel's "Man v. Food" and upcoming "Best Sandwich in America" (which will premiere on June 6).

As the mother of a 21-year-old male who thinks that Adam and his Food Network counterpart, Guy Fieri of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives," have the greatest jobs on Earth — getting paid to eat rich and delicious dishes all around the country — this occasion simply couldn't pass without notice.

So, what to serve in honor of a man whose fame comes not only from his genial disposition (he always seems like such a nice guy who's just there to have fun regardless of the cholesterol count), but also from eating gargantuan quantities of food — the richer, spicier and more artery-clogging the better? Jeremy suggested nachos, in honor of Adam having visited Ann Arbor in 2010 and conquered Mt. Nacheesmo — a five-pound plate of nachos — at Tio's Mexican Cafe.

So we piled up the chips and loaded 'em with generous quantities of all the goodies: gooey cheese sauce, spicy chorizo, zesty salsa, vivid olives, crisp scallions and tomatoes, cool sour cream and luscious avocado.

And then we indulged.

Utterly, obscenely decadent, these nachos were great!  They have virtually no redeeming nutritional value (though I give credit where it's due to the vegetables!), but it was important to simply have fun during our celebration and honor the spirit of the birthday boy.

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Sonic Lunch, the popular weekly free summer concert series in downtown Ann Arbor, released its season schedule today, and it combines some bigger-than-usual names with some old favorites.

Among the attractions: Ann Arbor native with a national following Mayer Hawthorne and the County; Michigan rock legend Mitch Ryder; and rising Detroit band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. . Also expect the return of local favorites the Macpodz to draw a large crowd.

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In the Saline area, there were a large number of candidates filing for the Aug. 7 primary, especially in York Township, where voters will have four choices for supervisor, and that's just for starters.

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What’s the story of America?
There are many ways to tell it.
In recent years, a polarization narrative has seized center stage—a story of America divided.
One doesn’t have to look far to find examples of divisive, mean-spirited political and religious rhetoric. As Greg Garrett writes in Faithful Citizenship and as we discussed Monday, “Christians on both sides of issues have taken the culture’s distinctly unloving methods to heart.”

Is there any hope?
A seed of hope is the simple yet profound awareness that, like it or not, the fates of people on both sides of the divide are linked.
As Greg puts it:

“While we like to think of ourselves as radical individualists, and our mantra ‘freedom’ would sometimes seem to stand in opposition to an awareness that we need each other and make up a community, we also have a pragmatic understanding that we are all in this together, and a record of secular American saints who used their resources for the common good. To be a good American, then, is to be someone who gives of his or her resources for the common good, to recognize that we rise or fall together. Most of us can accept this, although we might argue about how we live this out, whether our giving is to private charity, church, or government.”

Benjamin Franklin is one of the examples Greg cites. Franklin “founded America’s first subscription library, a volunteer fire department, and a hospital and was active in promoting a society with shared resources for all.”
Andrew Carnegie gave away his great wealth for great public causes. Our enviable national park system was backed by John Rockefeller’s fortune. Today’s philanthropists include Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, as we’ve discussed several times on OurValues.org.

Most of us don’t have fortunes to give for the public good, but we do have whatever resources we have—time, energy, creativity, and money.
Is it the size of the gift that counts, or the spirit with which it is given?

Do we rise and fall together?

Does a good american give his or her resources?

How do you give back?

Dr. Wayne E. Baker is a sociologist on the faculty of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Baker blogs daily at Our Values and can be reached at ourvaluesproject@gmail.com or on Facebook.