Looking around the fields in northern Michigan a few weeks ago and you might have seen golden fields with wheat moving with the wind. That isn’t as prevalent anymore though. Winter wheat harvest is in full swing in northern Michigan. According to the Michigan Ag Council, wheat is farmed on ...

We can be proud and thankful that we have always cared for our children. From the schools (public and parochial, and home-schooled), to Boys and Girls Club, to Center for Charity, Baby Pantry, Foster Care Closet, foster parents, biological parents, adopting parents, and the list goes on and on, ...

I’m not great at remembering birthdays. It’s not because they’re not on my calendar. It’s not because I don’t care. It may have something to do with a lack of understanding what time is, and how fast it goes by. At any rate, in considering birthday gift ideas, I’ve come up with ...

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health collapse. We are on the verge of, at best, a health crisis and, at worst, a ...

The economy can be both very complex and very simple. In simplified terms, consider two buckets. One is the public sector, and one is the private sector. As more money flows into the bucket of the public sector and fills it up, the private sector bucket does not fill up. However, the private ...

In May, my son and I gathered with hundreds of our neighbors at a community meeting to protest a pickleball and tennis complex planned for our local park. We're not against the sports. My son likes to play tennis with his dad. What we objected to was clearing trees and utilizing green space for ...