I recently listened to a Pints With Aquinas podcast episode with guest Malcolm Guite, an author and poet. What he had to say about stories and poetry was quite fascinating. It revived something inside me and made me think about story in a new way. I pulled out my copy of “The Rime of the ...
Every July presidents and trustees from Michigan’s 28 community colleges and three tribal schools come together for a summer conference. This year the event was held at Mission Point on Mackinac Island. Organized by the Michigan Community College Association, the advocacy group based in ...
Drive any back road in Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency, Oscoda, or Presque Isle County and you will see two truths side by side. The first is the beauty of this place — the shoreline, the forests, the small towns where neighbors still know one another by name. The second is quieter, and it lives ...
It's really a downright shame that some fancy-smancy foundation has not cough up the cash to establish a Nobel Peace Prize-like award for political players who make a good faith effort to deliver to the citizens something they are begging for now even more. That would be more sincere attempts ...
The windows of bookstores and the marquees of movie theaters across America all sing the praises of Homer's 2,800-year-old "The Odyssey." This prompted me to review the Greek myths and legends I enjoyed so much as a boy. More than any other, the tale of King Midas, which dates from around the same period as Homer's epic, grabbed my attention. As the story goes, the god Dionysus granted Midas a single wish, and he chose that everything he touched would turn to gold. How could that not turn my mind to the current inhabitant of the White House and Mar-a-Lago who seems determined to ...
The fiscal year 2026-2027 state budget was signed into law last week by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. We here at the Michigan League for Public Policy are digging into the final agreement that was reached, and while it does include some positive investments, tools that would raise state revenues to ...
