August 20, 2025

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    Blackflix.com- 9-5- Movie Review: Green Zone

    Rina Risper07 mins

    Studio:     Universal

    Plot:     Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.
    Cast:     Matt Damon, Breendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan
    Rating:     R
    Bottom Line:     **1/2

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    Do you have an opinion? Your letters 9-5

    Rina Risper01 mins

     After a theft, Meijer manager, Kevin D’Hondt, at Meijer located at the S. Pennsylvania store comes to the rescue.

     

    March 28, 2010 – April 10, 2010 edition

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      me2u- 9-5 – Lost

      Rina Risper08 mins

       

      I do not know when it happened. And as I analyze my past it seems there were a series of events that led to this feeling that I have. I see different points where my life took a drastic turn. The problem is I cannot figure out how to analyze the results. They have all ended up being learning experiences but to what end, for I am lost.

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      Naturally Savvy: Throw a Green Kids’ Birthday Party

      Rina Risper08 mins

       Using real plates and cutlery instead of disposable ones sends the message that protecting the environment is worth the extra work involved.

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      Interpersonal EDGE: Identifying Workplace Superstars

      Rina Risper05 mins

       By Dr. Daneen Skube

      Tribune Media Services
       
      Q. Our company started hiring again, and we brought in a number of supervisors that looked like rising stars. However, our management team isn’t seeing the performance we expected, and we have to hire another wave of supervisors. How do you screen an employee who might be great at the talk but not deliver the walk on the job?

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      Retire Smart: Recession Darkens the Retirement Outlook for Women

      Rina Risper07 mins

      By Mark Miller

      Tribune Media Services
       
      Janice Johnson left her job as a managing director at a major New York financial services company at age 49 to start her own executive training business. Almost immediately, that plan was sidetracked when her mother became seriously ill with the West Nile virus. Traveling to Mississippi-where her mother lived-to provide care became Johnson’s main occupation for the next two years.
       

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      Michigan is on The Right “Trac”: Helping Small Businesses

      Rina Risper04 mins

       

       

       

      Roundtable Discussion on Small Businesses at Lansing Community College:  (Scott Guernsey, HR Component; Brent Knight, President of Lansing Community College; Linda Hundt,  Sweetie-licious Bakery Cafe; Dave Adams, Michigan Credit Union League CEO; George Wood, Home Energy Audits;  Governor Jennifer M. Granholm; Andy Otteman, Parnunu, LLC; Rina Risper, President & Publisher of The New Citizens Press; Nancy Boese, Michigan Small Business Technology Development Center Region 7 regional director and Greg Main, President and Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO. Photo by Adam DeLong

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      2010 Most Influential & Interesting

      Rina Risper01 mins

      During the entire year prior to this edition, we are looking  for people who are doing great things in our community.  They may or may not be on your radar but to The New Citizens Press they provide value to our community.  We also realize that there are others who you think belong in “The Most Influential and Interesting” column.  We are willing to consider anyone regardless of race, affiliations, education or socioeconomic background.

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      2010 Most Influential & Interesting: Willye Bryan

      Rina Risper011 mins

      Willye Bryan, Research Technician with the Department of Entomology, Pesticide Alternatives Laboratory, Michigan State University and President of The Lansing Area African American Genealogy Society (LAAAGS)

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