Posts published in “Guest Column”

  As has become far too common around the country, seniors across Michigan often have to choose between life-saving medications and having enough money to buy groceries, pay the rent and keep the lights turned…

  Michigan ballot boxes and new voter survey results point to a population largely ready to move on from the school culture wars and focus on local, data-relevant issues. After electing pro-public education leaders and…

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…

  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…