"We're getting close but we're not there yet." In the last seven months since Gov. Gretchen Whitmer released her new state budget, nobody in this town has uttered those eight little, but important words. Instead, a ton of the rhetoric has centered on not getting a budget agreement which would ...
As I’m writing this, we’re reeling from yet more repulsive, evil violence, perpetrated with both guns and knives. I don't know who started the saying "thoughts and prayers," but I never use it. It seems to be grasping for something that is secular yet somewhat meaningful without being too ...
The ability to disagree with elected representatives — and each other — is a cornerstone of our democratic process and community wellbeing. That’s why Teresa Smith’s September 13th letter to the editor is so worrying, especially due to its timing and tone. Smith claimed concern about ...
Is he name Abraham Maslow familiar to you? He was an influential psychologist who came up with a theory of how humans can reach their full potentials. His article titled “A Theory of Human Motivation” appeared in a 1943 edition of “Psychological Review.” In it, Maslow describes an ...
Well, certainly don’t clap your hands at any school board meetings! At the board meeting this week, Mr. Lawson, school board president, in a never-ending attempt to look ever more clownish, premiered a new rule. If you clap during the meetings you will be removed from the room by Law ...
Every American newspaper should ask every elected official on the local ballot, from drain commissioner to U.S. senator, one question: Do you believe the Big Lie? Putting them all on record would be an incalculably valuable public service. Every newspaper would deserve a Pulitzer ...