Making sure it’s safe to eat out in OaklandWhen the late Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson would eat out at Oakland County restaurants and other food institutions inspected
Religion in Michigan’s public school systemsThe debate over maintaining a secular environment in public schools as opposed to allowing the teaching of religious doctrine has taken on…
Climate change plans in local communitiesSustainability is a broad concept among green thinking circles. At the individual level, it can be as simple and inexpensive as linking…
Vacancy challenges for police agenciesMost of the nearly 60 cadets training at Oakland Police Academy in Auburn Hills will have a job waiting for them at a local municipality…
Battling against invasive speciesMichigan prides itself on tourism from its natural beauty but some visitors are unwelcome. Invasive species, both plants and animals, have…
Water fluoridation controversy returnsBy Stacy Gittleman On the shores of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, just outside the JW Marriott Hotel, stands a five-ton,...
Michigan’s aquifers and their importanceThis summer, if you find yourself on a sandy shore, take a shovel and start digging. Chances are you will hit water. This science experiment
Oakland County landfill concernsMichigan for decades has been the garbage receptacle of the Midwest. That has left Michigan with about a quarter century of space left in it
Our digital world: The toxic radiation health threatOur digital world is ubiquitous and the telecommunications industry wants it that way. But academic, medical, public health and scientific…