While debates about energy are again grabbing headlines, businesses across Michigan and the nation are increasingly focused on long-term sustainability: not just because it’s the right thing to do but because it can be good…
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The internet, whether you like it or not, is a necessity of modern life — but your ability to access it really depends on where you live. For too long, many communities, especially in rural…
Ah, the telltale signs that Michigan spring is approaching: the snow is melting, the potholes are reappearing, and throngs of petition circulators are positioning themselves outside your grocery store and post office to collect signatures…
We should teach the full breadth of our literature and history and wrestle with the complexity of our history, rather than limit our children’s knowledge and have our children suffer the adverse impacts of ignorance.…
Dead Last. When it comes to public investment in public higher education in the Great Lakes states, Michigan is dead last. Last in state appropriations per capita for its public universities. Last in inflationary increases.…
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing more money for Michigan schools in her 2022-23 budget proposal. Although money alone will not completely solve the teacher shortage issue, further action is unable to proceed without it. For…
State lawmakers have a lot of money left over from federal stimulus packages and tax revenue growth, but little consensus around how to spend it. They ought to agree on some basic improvements. They should…
I became a quadriplegic man 39 years ago. Now I’ve lost my caregivers, had to leave my home and am in life-threatening situations. I am declining and my health is failing without my regular exercise…
As we continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan’s non-profit, accredited child welfare agencies are struggling and facing unprecedented challenges to serve children in need and Michigan families. We are severely short-staffed, shouldering the cost…
Recently, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer convened an expert roundtable to focus on the importance of addressing Michigan’s mental health crisis. In advance of the State of the State address, the governor indicated that she would address…