By now you have learned that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is coping with the loss of her 85 year dad who was more than just her father. She recalls that when she decided to run for governor he was "so supportive" and helped to guide her through that decision and on top of being her trusted political ...
One summer when I was 12 going on 13, I spent a week at the greatest place in the world: Camp Geneva, on the shores of Lake Michigan. This was my fourth summer, and the first entering Geneva Pines, the middle school side of camp. The first day at camp was always a little tiring. Checking in ...
New groundbreaking research – the largest dataset ever conducted on shared book reading – reaffirms that Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library significantly strengthens early literacy skills for children in Northeast Michigan alongside children across the five other countries, reinforcing ...
Workforce development doesn’t stand still — and neither can we. Across Northeast Michigan, rapid changes in technology, global markets, and economic policy are affecting both employers and workers. Conversations about artificial intelligence, tariffs, supply chains, and shifting public ...
We see in the actions of ICE such as kidnapping a five-year-old in order to get to the father, a form of masculinity, which is toxic and has a negative impact on our society. Toxic masculinity is characterized by fear, weakness, racism, aggression, and lack of empathy. You can tell this ...
Americans are often warned about the dangers of overreaction, hysteria or xenophobia, and rightly so. But there is an equal danger in denial. What the country has witnessed over the past several years is not a series of disconnected curiosities, nor the product of political imagination. It is a ...