Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday, November 30, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Associated Press file photoMichigan State running back Javon Ringer scores during MSU's win over the University of Michigan on Oct. 25. A Talk Back writer says The Flint Journal should have been more positive when MSU ended the regular season with a loss.

DON'T DISRESPECT MSU: The comments "MSU pounded by Penn State" on the Nov. 23 front page about Michigan State University football were uncalled for. State had an awesome season and deserves some credit. As for the additional comment, "(But at least we still have the Lions)," give me a break. State could beat the Lions. In fact, Michigan could probably give them a run for their money. Wise up.

-- Millington

Flint Journal filesAn assembly line for tank parts takes shape even as the final prewar Buick passenger cars are loaded into boxcards for delibery. A Talk Back writer said American-owned factories are needed in case of war.

NEED MANUFACTURING: Will Toyota and Honda build our tanks like Buick and the other automakers did during World War II?

--Forest Township

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday, November 16, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Flint Journal file photoThis is the restored gym inside the Haskell Community Center in Flint, pictured in 2006 prior to its official re-opening. A Talk Back writer lamented the center's closing.

WRONG PRIORITIES: The Haskell Community Center closing is troublesome. Perhaps if we didn't get those regular slick mailings that seem to promote the mayor as much as the senior programs, then it could have remained open. It's just another example of the mayor's misguided sense of where to spend money.

-- Flint

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Nov. 9, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Stuart Bauer | The Flint JournalFirefighters keep an eye on nearby homes as a house is consumed by fire on Chevrolet Avenue north of Dayton Street around 10:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 - Devil's NIght. A reader blames the fires, in part, to the media's excessive coverage.

MEDIA'S FAULT: As long as Devil's Night is glorified by the media, it will continue to be a serious problem. The excessive coverage serves to perpetuate this behavior by drawing attention to it; thereby reminding that it is not just an annual problem, but an expectation. When all of the community preventive efforts are so highly publicized, the challenge is issued. Then they are rewarded with front-page coverage of the expected destruction.

-- Fenton

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Oct. 26, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Don Williamson

KEEP MAYOR: And just who does this "Can't even get along with each other" City Council think will be the next Flint mayor, Eric Mays? People need to wake up like Mayor Don Willamson is waking up downtown Flint, making it a place I would send my kids to with nice sights and events.

Come on, how long has this been since you would even go downtown?

Stop the recall.

-- Flushing

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Oct. 19, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Cheryl Senter | The Associated PressTodd Palin, husband of Republican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, signs an autograph for 10-year-old Jim Doherty (left) of Arlington, Mass., in Fremont, N.H., on Oct. 11. A Talk Back writer raises issue with Todd Palin's former membership with the Alaskan Independence Party.

TOO LIGHT: I've seen it all now from the illustrious Fluff Journal, such as the Oct. 15 headline, in bold print: "Former Alaskan touts Palin." It's kind of cute that the young man still has a school-boy crush, but it's hardly front page news, except for one important fact he overlooked: Sarah Palin's husband's previous membership in a political party that advocates giving Alaskans a vote on whether to secede from the union.

-- Flint

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Oct. 5, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

John McCain

INEXCUSABLE: In response to the Talk Back writer who said Republican presidential candidate John McCain's trouble using computers stems from Vietnam War injuries ["Good reason," Sept. 28], I didn't have to reach over my head to type this e-mail. One candidate has no desire to learn anything new.

-- Otisville

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

LOSER LIONS: That's three losses. Are 13 more on the way? The biggest losers are those at the top of the organization and people dumb enough to pay to attend the shameless games.

-- Linden

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Wednesday, September 22, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Richard Drew | The Associated PressTraders crowd the post that handles Morgan Stanley on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the close of trading Wednesday. A Talk Back writer says government bailouts aren't good.

-- Mt. Morris

NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE: It is frightening to think of a liberal Democrat taking the Oval Office, especially when you consider that Michigan's liberal Democratic governor has managed to wreck this state. He will do to America what Gov. Jennifer Granholm has done to Michigan.

-- Swartz Creek

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Sept. 14, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Jae C. Hong | The Associated Press filesCindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., (left) is lead onstage by first lady Laura Bush during the Sept. 1 session of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. A Flint Journal reader says the jewelry McCain wore shows she's out of touch with the American people.

OUT OF TOUCH: Cindy McCain wore clothing and jewelry reportedly valued at $300,000 the night she spoke at the Republican National Convention. That in itself is way out of touch with most American people. That is as much out of touch as the seven homes Republican presidential candidate John McCain own that he can't remember.

-- Grand Blanc Township

RACING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION: Once again, in the case of the drag strip, Mayor Don Williamson has confused his election to office with the idea that he was crowned emperor and free to do as he pleases -- without concern to cost, liability, noise, citizen concerns -- or any type of City Council consideration or approval. He does need to be recalled.

-- Flint

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

SEND BILL TO KILPATRICK: How much is Detroit's special election to replace Kwame Kilpatrick going to cost? The city should send Kwame the bill.

-- Davison

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Aug. 31, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Don Williamson

Kwame Kilpatrick

POOR COMPARISON I've heard a lot of unfavorable comparisons of Mayor Williamson to Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick. For all of their troubles, at least Detroit has a mayor with enough sense to know he has no chance of ever being elected governor! What could Don be thinking? He has minimal support in the city, the rest of the county thinks he is a joke, and nobody else in the state has heard of him. If the state's voters see that archive video of him shouting profanities at the City Council through a bullhorn while wearing that hard hat, the campaign will be over.

-- Davison

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Aug. 24, 2008, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

Associated Press filesUSA starting pitcher Cat Osterman, rear, greets teammates after their victory over Australia in a softball game in the Beijing 2008 Olympics on Aug. 13. The U.S. team later won the silver metal. A Talk Back writer wonders if the Detroit Tigers could use Osterman's talent.

SEEK NEW TALENT: Perhaps the Detroit Tigers management might consider trading the whole team for the American Olympic softball team?

Certainly Cat Osterman would do a better job than most of the Tiger's pitching staff? Egads!

It's hard to believe that such a promising preseason would turn out like this.

-- Davison

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday Aug. 17, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

TAX ETHANOL: With all the federal subsidies to produce ethanol, someone with Big Corn must be making big profits, being that E85 is not that much less expensive than gasoline. Will Barack Obama suggest a windfall-profits tax on Midwestern farmers and Big Corn?

-- Clayton Township

Here's The Flint Journal Talk Back items for Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008: (Give us your view on these opinions in the comments area below.)

OLYMPIC QUESTION: How many Olympic athletes are going to suffer from serious health problems due to the air pollution in Beijing?

-- Davison