The role of wind and solar in the future of powerEarly August – specifically August 10 – will be remembered as an important day for the environment. The United Nations issued a grim…
Voting rights: The historic and ongoing skirmishesDepending on your point of view, the 2020 general election was the most secure in history, or rife with fraud, bringing forth illegitimate…
Critical race theory: politics enters the classroomOver Memorial Day weekend of 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a district of the city known as Greenwood, filled with affluent and educated…
Forever chemicals and our food, water supplyAlthough what we now refer to as “forever chemicals” or PFAS have been around since the 1940s, scientists, researchers, and government…
Warming waters: Lakes signal climate changeComing across a body of water in Michigan doesn't take very long. Whether it’s the Great Lakes, which, according to the United States…
Transgender, non-binary search for selves, rightsBlake Bonkowski grew up in Royal Oak uncomfortable in his own skin, not knowing who he was, bullied as an outsider throughout school because
Avoiding meltdown: Michigan’s nuclear futureBy Stacy Gittleman Driving along the I-75 corridor between Detroit and Toledo, one can catch glimpses of the twin curved silos of the...
Karen McDonald: Moving the needle of justiceOakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald surprised the legal and political communities in 2019 when she resigned from her position as an...
Birmingham and the national planning trendsResidential neighborhoods in cities around the United States initially developed and grew as a hodgepodge, with single family homes adjacent
