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On this Memorial Day

On May 25th, I will see if I can still squeeze into my Navy uniform and join Memorial Day tributes with Michigan’s 462,000 veterans. Growing up in Alpena, my mind immediately reflects on Alpena’s Little Flanders Field. Across northeast Michigan’s four-county region, fellow veterans, ...

We Could Call It… DEMOCRACY!

A Republican, a Democrat and an Independent walk into a bar. The bartender asks what they want. The Republican and Democrat order some black label over-priced whiskey. The Independent just orders a glass of water. The discussion turns to politics, quiet at first, but grows into the Democrat ...

Could Trump care less about you and me?

Camelot, it's not. King Arthur, not even close. Donald Trump is a pretender president who doesn't even pretend to do right by the people. In all candor, this city, graced by garden squares, memorials and museums, feels like a crime scene, with his fingerprints everywhere on it. Places we ...

When businessmen enter the Beltway, it’s business as usual

Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of market discipline and limited government have joined the Trump administration, taking charge of hundreds of billions ...

One handed cupboards

How long does it take you to set your table for meals? Do you reach into your cupboards and pull out what you need without moving a lot of other dishes? I’d like to explain an easy “one handed” method to make this job as simple as possible. Do you have two or three different types of ...

Research suggests that we make as many as 35,000 choices each day

Even before you leave the house in the morning, you make dozens, if not hundreds, of choices. Should you hit the snooze feature on the alarm or just get out of bed? What should you wear for the day? Should you eat breakfast? If yes, then what should you eat? You picked a bagel, should you ...