Summer's lease hath all too short a date, said Shakespeare, and ain't that the truth. The cicadas are still singing, but they won't be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. The garden knows it too. The last batch of bright zinnias displays its stand-up-straight ...

I woke up, ate breakfast, and then sought the comfort of the living room couch, a familiar feeling of depression settling over me. The ache of arthritis and a dropped cup of tea left me feeling defeated, murmuring to myself, "The old grey mare ain't what she used to be." But the woods were ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...