Here is what we hear on the street about downtown Birmingham: There are too many jewelry stores in downtown Birmingham. Now, there are...

Our local communities engage in multiple examples of mutual aid and revenue sharing, which helps all of them – it allows large and small...

A few months ago, Downtown Newsmagazine published a one-on-one interview with Erin Quetell, Oakland County's new environmental...

Two longtime southeastern Michigan cultural museums have announced plans to reach out to Oakland and Wayne county residents for...

The city of Birmingham and its residents are blessed in numerous ways – there is a thriving city downtown with retail stores and...

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...

Over the years, Birmingham city commissioners have occasionally overstepped their boundaries – coming into City Hall, both literally and...

We have grown accustomed on a national level to a less than ideal situation when it comes to political debate. Nastiness. Sowing...

A city charter is a city's principal governing document – similar to a state or country's constitution. In Michigan, cities and villages...

Residents in Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills are being asked to choose candidates to fill seats on their city commissions this election...