During my 30-plus years in health care, I have been involved with at least two dozen strategic plans. In addition, for five years, I taught strategic planning to university graduate-level students. A vital part of any strategic planning process involves research into what the market needs, ...
It was not a dark and stormy night. (Sorry; that would have been a better story). But it was a typical mid-winter January morning that was damp and snow-covered (you remember snow, don’t you?). Former state senator Gretchen Whitmer had invited a certain reporter over to her pad in ...
Alcona Community Schools Superintendent Dan O’Connor was right when he told News staff writer Temi Fadayomi that the internet had become “a non-negotiable,” a must-have almost like a utility such as electricity, water, and sewer services. Everything happens online these days. Banking. ...
We’re grateful to area police officers and other emergency first responders who participated in a recent training on responding to those having a mental health crisis. As News staff writer Mike Gonzalez reported recently, Partners in Prevention offered the eight-hour training meant to help ...
“What explains this alarming state of affairs? Lack of leadership and lack of means. No one is in charge of telling America’s still-inspiring story to the world.” — Joseph I. Lieberman and Gordon J. Humphrey in the Washington Post In many arenas, America finds herself wanting. She ...
On one side, we have Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. A businessman. Donald Trump just being Donald Trump. Donald Trump doing what Donald Trump always does. Going about his businesses and doing nothing wrong. On the other side, we have Evangelicals espousing Christian values. ...