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Editorials and columns

Kids Count data paints a picture of needs in Michigan

Piecing together a Healthy Future Michigan’s Kids Count data shows that raising healthy children is like assembling a puzzle: housing, food security, health care, education and economic stability must all fit together for every child to thrive. Too many of those pieces are missing today, ...

The awakening few see coming

PITTSBURGH — If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10's brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of ...

Shut up or else: Trump warns Americans they’d better be quiet

If Donald Trump hoped to make Americans feel nostalgic about Richard Nixon, he's succeeded. Those were the days of relatively modest abuse of presidential power, comparatively speaking, which Nixon at least felt constrained to engage in discreetly. They were days when merely sporadic acts ...

Let’s play Jeopardy! Michigan politics style

Jeopardy! Game Take One. "I'll take political potpourri for $1200." Answer: Jim Brickley, Dick Posthumus, John Cherry, and Brian Calley. Question: Name four Michigan lt. governors who ran for governor and lost. Correct. "Let's take political popular wisdom for $2000. I'm feeling ...

An Obituary for Earnestness

A 99-year-old woman died yesterday. Though I'd never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn't famous in the new ...

A Christ-Centered Culture in College Football

With the 2025 college football season underway, the Ohio State Buckeyes are hoping to defend their national title and once again forge their way through the playoffs. Their path to the title of beating four ranked teams was epic last year, especially after a disappointing loss to Michigan. ...