- Apr 27
Time to resolve regional water debt issue
The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) is an independent regional water and wastewater authority, providing drinking water and sewer...
- Apr 27
Full transparency at private, public schools
It's a shocking and disturbing revelation – but sadly, one that across the country has become more and more common. On Tuesday, April 12,...
- Mar 30
Righting the school district financial ship
The collective community has been rightly shocked by the news released by the Birmingham Superintendent Dr. Embekka Roberson on March 1...
- Mar 30
Achieving right mix in the city's downtown
Here is what we hear on the street about downtown Birmingham: There are too many jewelry stores in downtown Birmingham. Now, there are...
- Feb 22
Cooperation key to funding district court
Our local communities engage in multiple examples of mutual aid and revenue sharing, which helps all of them – it allows large and small...
- Feb 22
County, locals must lead on environment
A few months ago, Downtown Newsmagazine published a one-on-one interview with Erin Quetell, Oakland County's new environmental...
- Jan 25
Tax proposal raises some serious issues
Two longtime southeastern Michigan cultural museums have announced plans to reach out to Oakland and Wayne county residents for...
- Jan 25
Harness the knowledge of former mayors
The city of Birmingham and its residents are blessed in numerous ways – there is a thriving city downtown with retail stores and...
- Dec 28, 2021
Time for adults to act and protect children
Houston, we have a problem – in the words of NASA's doomed space flight Apollo 13. Only today, it's America, and the nation's...
- Dec 28, 2021
Keeping commissioners in their own lane
Over the years, Birmingham city commissioners have occasionally overstepped their boundaries – coming into City Hall, both literally and...