With this new year comes a new legislative term, and with it a new opportunity to make a significant, positive impact on the lives of Michigan’s students, staff, and schools. For the new state legislature…
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For three years, we’ve measured the COVID-19 pandemic by its impact in our communities — case rates, deaths and vaccinations — even our economics. What is tougher to measure is what the pandemic has…
As a sportsman and conservationist, 20-year member of the North Macomb Sportsmen’s Club and its MUCC Region 8 Representative, founding board member of the Michigan Pheasant Hunting Initiative, as well the Chairman of the…
The recent announcement of a $105 million grant to remove I-375 in Detroit is welcome news. Although removing unnecessary freeways won’t undo the legacy of destruction of Black Bottom and other neighborhoods in Detroit,…
BY ISHKA BIBBLE “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.” – Milton Friedman “Hey, honey!” I proudly exclaimed to my wife, “Since you put me in charge of paying this…
In rural, suburban and urban communities across Michigan — Mount Clemens, Dearborn, Hillsdale, Iron Mountain, Canton, Hudsonville, Davidson, Lowell, Petoskey, Rochester, Greenville, Royal Oak, Hancock, and Jamestown, among others — there has been an…
The year 2022 is where voters in southeast Michigan showed that they support public transportation. In the August primary, voters in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township voted to support a millage to expand…
A recent story in Bridge Michigan makes it abundantly clear that outdoor recreation is big business in Michigan. But to keep it that way, the state needs to fully commit to this burgeoning industry by…
This week’s release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), commonly referred to as the Nation’s Report Card, has unfortunately shown that Michigan students continue to struggle academically relative to their national peers. This…
Amid all the concern over children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems forced to endure makeshift placements — some even shipped more than a thousand miles away — Michigan has lost sight of…