Right now Republican leaders in Congress are debating a package that would provide $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to large corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – and they plan to pay for it by cutting essential tools families and businesses need to thrive like health ...
As I wrote this letter on April 4, Northern Michigan was just beginning to recover from a historic ice storm. I had just finished reading numerous stories in The Alpena News of local communities’ efforts to help those in need — so many stories of kindness and generosity. April 3 was the ...
Spring is a season of rebirth and celebrating, including the celebration of Easter and Passover and the food-centered traditions they bring. As Michiganders prepare to celebrate, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) reminds hosts to keep food safety in mind as ...
“But we can at least appreciate that we don’t know everything and make an active effort to deconstruct what we think we do know.” This is a sentence from a book I’m just about finished reading. The book is “The Four Workarounds” by Paulo Savaget and is about tackling complex ...
The federal government is the largest employer in the state of Michigan. The government employs over 54,000 people in the state alone, more than any of “The Big Three” automakers or any of the health systems here in the state. However, the federal government doesn’t have expansive ...
In 1776, commenting on tariffs and other restrictions on international trade in his “Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith wrote: “What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity ...