Over the three elections, Sheltrown has performed 15 points above the Democratic Party base in the 103rd House District.

He was elected on November 2, 2004 to replace outgoing Rep. Dale Sheltrown, his brother.

Joel Sheltrown is currently working on legislation to increase career technical education in Michigan to train workers for these emerging fields and legislation to provide for residential green energy production and efficiency municipal loans.

In 2007, Joel Sheltrown led the successful effort to build a wide body aircraft hangar at the Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport furthering development of the aviation industry in northern Michigan.

Joel Sheltrown is a lifelong resident of northern Michigan's Ogemaw County.

Sheltrown favors the elimination of the Michigan Business Tax and Michigan's personal property tax and their replacement with either a state Value Added Tax or a progressive consumption tax.

Joel Sheltrown ( born 1947 ) is a Democratic state legislator from the state of Michigan.

Joel Sheltrown was elected from the 103rd House District to the Michigan House of Representatives in 2004, and subsequently re-elected in 2006 and 2008.

As a member of the Democratic majority in the Michigan House of Representatives, Joel Sheltrown was appointed to chair the House Tourism, Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resources Committee in 2007 and re-appointed in 2009.

Joel Sheltrown was the primary sponsor of a new state law allowing All-terrain vehicles to access county roads.

In 1966, Joel Sheltrown enlisted in the United States Navy and was sent to Viet Nam.

Following his wartime military service overseas, Joel Sheltrown returned to West Branch where he managed his father's John Deere dealership.

Joel Sheltrown is married to Teresa Sheltrown.

Following the traditions of his politically active family from an early age, Joel Sheltrown served as an Ogemaw Township Trustee from 1978 – 1988 and as the Ogemaw Township Supervisor from 2000-2004.

Joel Sheltrown is a centrist Democrat.

Joel Sheltrown is a life member of the National Rifle Association.

Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

The challenge to the status has focused on the Agnostina partly because juveniles of one genus have been found with legs greatly different from those of adult trilobites, suggesting they are not members of the lamellipedian clade, of which trilobites are a part.

Thus, study of this Barnum / Forer effect has been mostly focused on the level of acceptance of fake horoscopes and fake astrological personality profiles.

Starting in approximately the 1970s into the present day analytical chemistry has progressively become more inclusive of biological questions ( bioanalytical chemistry ), whereas it had previously been largely focused on inorganic or small organic molecules.

The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable ; particularly on the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available.

The implementation of the Dayton Accords of 1995 has focused the efforts of policymakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the international community, on regional stabilization in the countries-successors of the former Yugoslavia.

For many years, early Anglo-Saxon history was essentially a retelling of the Historia, but recent scholarship has focused as much on what Bede did not write as what he did.

Recent research by the Imperial College London has focused on finding new cell wall proteins which trigger an immune response and are suitable for use in a vaccine to provide long-term protection against M. tuberculosis.

As well as Bennett, speculation has also focused on Lord Kitchener, who among other things was prominently involved in British military recruitment in World War I.

Chapters 40 – 55 fall into two parts, with 40 – 48 dealing with the rise of Cyrus, while 49 – 55 are focused on Zion as the wife whom God has renounced and then taken back.

An explanation for some of the disappearances has focused on the presence of large fields of methane hydrates ( a form of natural gas ) on the continental shelves.

Croatian foreign policy has focused on greater Euro-Atlantic integration, mainly entering the European Union and NATO.

The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

Ongoing research on computational linguistics has focused on formulating other classes of languages that are " mildly context-sensitive " whose decision problems are feasible, such as tree-adjoining grammars, combinatory categorial grammars, coupled context-free languages, and linear context-free rewriting systems.

More recently, beginning at the 1997 CHOGM, the meeting has had an official ' theme ', set by the host nation, on which the primary discussions have been focused.

Scholarly debate over the interpretation of these passages has focused on placing them in proper historical context, for instance pointing out that Sodom's sins are historically interpreted as being other than homosexuality, and on the translation of rare or unusual words in the passages in question.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Critical psychology in the United States and Canada has, for the most part, focused on critiques of mainstream psychology's support for an unjust status quo.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

It has been found that training focused towards visual language and orthographic issues yields longer-lasting gains than mere oral phonological training.

Research in computability theory has typically focused on decision problems.

The history of discrete mathematics has involved a number of challenging problems which have focused attention within areas of the field.

* Orientation to revolutionary breakthroughs in a connected approach: DARPA historically has focused not on incremental but radical innovation.

An eagle holding symbols of war and peace has a long history, and also echoed the second committee's themes.

He has been a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee since 1997, serving as the committee's chair until 2005.

The committee's jurisdiction has been changed several times since it was first created, through additional powers or by changing the manner in which committee members are appointed.

The committee's practice of interest rate targeting has been criticized by some commentators who argue that it may risk an inflationary bias.

James W. Ellis, the committee's director, has been indicted for money laundering in connection with this investigation.

The full Canadian Judicial Council, made up of the 22 of Canada's chief justices and senior judges, met to consider the committee's recommendation and, on March 31, 2009 formally recommended to Parliament that Cosgrove be removed saying that " We find that Justice Cosgrove has failed in the execution of the duties of his judicial office and that public confidence in his ability to discharge those duties in the future has been irrevocably lost.

The most immediate of the committee's tasks, one that has been the focus of much subsequent controversy, was to make recommendations concerning the use of the atomic bomb against Japan.

Almost all other committee members were the infiltrators, and the death of Thornwell has opened them the way for a complete takeover of the committee's activities.

He contested many details and interpretations in the committee's report, then went on the attack: " This business of using the navy as a football of politics has got to stop.

He has served as the national figure skating committee's director since 1998.