October brings Halloween and cold weather. It also brings politicians and celebrities as the November election looms. If you're a Bill Clinton fan, and even if your not, he's scheduled to visit the state today to support a state proposal that would loosen Michigan's laws regarding embryonic stem cell research: Proposal 2. You probably know of the proposal from the "2 goes 2 far" advertisements on television. Clinton will speak at the Taubman Air Terminal at Oakland County Airport at 4:30 p.m.

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• Information About Michigan's Proposal 2: Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Halloween Decorated House, 2007
Photo © Laura Sternberg, Licensed to About.com

Judging from the sheer number of haunted houses and Halloween stores in the Metro Detroit area, we like the holiday. Some folks do it up better than others. If you have a house in your neighborhood that is truly horrifying -- through Halloween decoration, not poor lawn care -- send in a picture of it in JPEG to detroit.guide@about.com.

The nation knows of it as a night of arson and mayhem, but Detroiters have more innocent memories of Devil's Night in Detroit. Outside of the arson that played out among the many abandoned buildings in downtown Detroit starting in the 1980s, the night was traditionally filled with pranks and mischief...read more.

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• 2008 Detroit Halloween Guide

October 6th is the last day to register to vote in Michigan for the November, 2008 election. A lot rides on this year's vote, including president, stem cell research and medical use of marijuana, in addition to U.S. and state representatives, county and township officials, and judges.