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Editorial

DNR conservation officers play vital role in state

Mention local law enforcement and most people think of police, their sheriff’s department or Michigan State Police. But there’s another branch that plays a vital role in the state, especially in the heavily forested lands of the Upper Peninsula: conservation officers with the Department ...

State dropping ball in distributing SNAP funding

The state of Michigan just got its proverbial knuckles slapped by the feds for slow and inaccurate administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More commonly known as SNAP, the federally-funded initiative provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their ...

Many nurses approach breaking point

We’ve seen it locally, across the state and nationally, too, nurses by the score telling us they feel increasingly burned out. In fact, researchers at the University of Michigan found that almost 94% of those nurses surveyed reported feeling “significant exhaustion” in relation to their ...

Volunteer for hospice

Hospice of Michigan provides a meaningful and important service, helping to ensure compassionate end-of-life care for patients. To do that, Hospice depends on teams of volunteers to spend time with patients to make sure their final days are filled with companionship. Now, News staff writer ...

Don’t test your luck this St. Patrick’s Day

This year, St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday. The celebratory day is one of the biggest drinking occasions of the year, and this, unfortunately, means more drunk drivers on the roads. With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Sunday, we can expect a fairly dangerous weekend for drivers and ...

Hiding behind fees isn’t what FOIA is for

Governments are people and, from time to time, people do embarrassing things. Things they’d rather not display — like a mural on the side of a big Detroit skyscraper. However, in the matter of a half-dozen such large-scale murals, and the investigation into whether the deal was on the ...