Michigan’s child welfare agency has been in dire need of more accountability and oversight for decades. There is no more time to waste; children are dying. Improvements must be made immediately. The well-being of abused children who go through the system is horrifically at risk. It’s a ...

They’re almost all gone now, that generation of Americans that beat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and made the world safe for democracy. Time has done what facism couldn’t, taking them one by one until now, only a handful of veterans of World War II remain to bear witness to what ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced the Make it in Michigan economic development strategy to keep successful projects, invest in students from pre-kindergarten through post-secondary and revitalize places in every part of the state. The three pillars of the strategy are projects, people ...

Today, it seems most appropriate to pull out a spotlight and shine it on the many young people who are graduating from high school this month. Congratulations! These were the cute little backpack-toting kids who started school in 2011. We can see them in our mind’s eye, trooping into school ...

Fraudsters will never take a break. While you are out enjoying fun and sun this summer, they are working hard to find new ways to scam you. Seniors and younger people are particularly vulnerable to scammers who claim to represent Social Security. To protect you and your loved ones, you can: - ...

While deaths due to distracted driving are tragic, singling out a specific type of distracted driving seems redundant. Michigan is getting closer to becoming the 26th state to pass a hand-held cell phone ban for drivers, but there are pitfalls in the legislation as proposed. If bills 4250, ...