In 2017, we decided as a family to take a trip up to Alaska for about six weeks in total - not by plane or by cruise, but to drive there and camp anywhere the roads would take us, which for Alaska is only about a ⅓ of the state. To get from Alpena to Anchorage takes about 60 hours of ...

It might be the first time that Bad Bunny has been suspected of cribbing from Irving Berlin. Near the end of his Super Bowl halftime show, the Puerto Rican rapper said, "God bless, America." For many Americans, they were the only words that they could understand and ones that they, ...

The sun came out this week, the temperature rose a little bit, and my mind got to wandering. The first sunny, warm day of the year always conjures up the same image in my head. In Northern Michigan, this day didn’t normally come until late March, or even early April. One year, in the midst ...

Every career begins with a defining moment, an instant when preparation meets courage and the future quietly changes course. For me, that moment came in 1983, when, at just 21 years old, I brought Richard Pryor to speak before more than 1,500 employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in ...

True story. When a relative of my husband, Sherry, was cleaning out her parent’s home after they passed away, there was a lamp that two of the three sisters wanted desperately. They decided to draw numbers with the number one getting first choice to keep it. Well, Sherry drew the number ...

With Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rolling out her 2027 state budget recommendation this week, the critical needs of Michiganders in every county are top of mind for us here at the Michigan League for Public Policy. We have long said that a state budget is a moral document that reflects a state’s ...