This summer, I’ve been increasingly interested in the stability of my community. Is Alpena growing its economic impact? Are community members making the community a better place to live? Are my peers ditching their phones to seek connections irl (in real life)? I haven’t come to a ...
The fate of ash trees highlights one of the several tragic tales within the world of forest ecology. The exotic emerald ash borer struck a hard blow. Yet, the story is not over. Ashes (Fraxinus spp.) have never been a large part of the Michigan forest landscape. At most, about three ...
During the World Cup, the American 250 and Fourth of July celebrations, people from around the globe have seen our country from a different viewpoint from what they were sold in their homeland by government officials and the media overseas. The cool thing is, they liked what they saw. People ...
America spends an extraordinary amount of time debating the top 1% -- the billionaires, corporate CEOs and hedge fund managers -- and the widening gap between the rich and everyone else. It is an important conversation in a nation that prizes both opportunity and free enterprise. But there is ...
I am a resident of Michigan and a registered voter. I moved back to Michigan after being gone for thirty years. and the first thing I did was to register to vote. I am a proud Independent so naturally I asked to register as an Independent. I was informed in Michigan you don’t have to declare ...
An early period of World War II was known as "the phony war." What we may be witnessing now in the U.S.-Iran war is the end of a "phony peace." The nearly five-month-long conflict has featured a couple of sham ceasefires, each marked by supposed Iranian pledges to reopen the Strait of ...