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The responsibility in the brevity

It was a meeting-heavy week. They were mostly one-on-one, which I like best, but those tend to take the most effort. The morning of day three, bracing for more meetings and sitting outside a cafe with the creeping heat starting, I watched a mother and son walk past me into the shop. Cute, I thought. Then, a continuation: Even though those two likely loved each other and were sharing an easy morning, both of them would die. One of them would carry the grief of the other. My brain wanders into strange neighborhoods when left unsupervised. While other people are noticing the weather or ...

Finding my true colors

Colors are a part of us before we enter the Earth. Gender reveals tag us “pink” or “blue,” and an army of colored clothes, toys and puzzles come our way. At some point, we adopt a “favorite” color, or at least make one up to answer one of small talk’s silliest ...

Commercial harvest of walleye and lake trout?

Representative Cam Cavitt is a proponent of a House bill that would give commercial fishers a chunk of the walleye and lake trout in Lake Huron. Is this a good idea? House Bill 5801 would require the Fisheries Division of the DNR to allow commercial harvest of lake trout, walleye, and yellow ...

Religious freedom means freedom for Muslim and Jewish Americans, too

Faith, Citizenship and Equal Dignity As a second-generation American, a Christian and a member of Lebanon Lutheran Church who also attends St. James Catholic Church with my husband in the White Lake area of Muskegon County Michigan, I reject attacks on anyone because of faith. My 55 years in ...

Federal food assistance attacks harming Northeast Michigan families

Just over a year after passage of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), Michigan families are feeling its harm. The federal megabill cuts billions of dollars in food assistance and healthcare for struggling households to give further tax breaks to the ultrawealthy. While ...

Not winning? Just change the rules

What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome--lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster--helped give birth to the socialists. But the overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that if they do not get their way, they blame the "system." Then they seek to change the rules, no matter how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or ...