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A thought on community care

I set out chamomile seedlings on the table in my yard so neighbors could grab them. The Buy Nothing group I belong to is a form of community care, but I would have never called it that prior to reading Rainesford Stauffer’s new book, “All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways we ...

A Black Plan for Mike Pence

Mike Pence is trailing former President Donald Trump by some 50 points in national polling. It’s no great revelation that the former vice president needs some major breakthroughs to be considered a serious and viable candidate for 2024. But all is possible, and here is one approach. I ...

Politics are in a doom loop

Are America’s 45th and 46th presidents politically invulnerable? That’s a conclusion you might come to from the response to the indictment of Donald Trump on June 8 and the guilty plea by Joe Biden’s son Hunter announced on June 20. If the Trump indictment has had any perceptible effect ...

Officers to emphasize speed enforcement throughout Michigan

About 41 million speeding tickets are issued in the nation per year, according to recent insurance industry studies. Some drivers may believe that’s plenty, but here’s another statistic to consider: speeding accounts for one-fourth of all traffic fatalities nationally. Police agencies ...

The silent majority pushes back

Understanding who your customers are is smart business. Many Starbucks outlets are toning down Pride Month celebrations, according to several reports, though the coffee chain’s top executives deny it’s official policy. Pixar’s film “Elemental,” which features Disney’s first ...

Trump and the Justice Department

Last week, Trump said that if reelected, he’d appoint a “real special prosecutor” to “go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family.” In other words, if Trump is reelected, you can kiss nonpartisan ...