

- Jul 14, 2020
July 2020
My column space this month is being used to bring readers up to date on some changes we are making in how we handle reporting of news...


- Jun 16, 2020
June 2020
These are dark days, indeed. A pandemic swept the world and with it our country, turning everyone's life upside down. And just as we...


- May 20, 2020
May 2020
Downtown newsmagazine has been providing residents of Birmingham, Bloomfield Township and Bloomfield Hills a quality monthly publication...


- Mar 20, 2020
April 2020
My main concern this month – as well as the foremost topic on everyone's mind – is the coronavirus (COVID-19) that is rapidly attacking...


- Feb 25, 2020
March 2020
The standing family joke in recent weeks has been the surprise pre-dawn discovery one day of a delivery to our front door of a Mike Bloomber


- Jan 28, 2020
February 2020
Looking for a vivid example of how money, special interests and industry lobbyists change the course of public policy in Washington? Look...


- Dec 26, 2019
January 2020
Families with college-age or post-college age young men and women living away from the area know well the Thanksgiving ritual the younger...


- Nov 25, 2019
December 2019
This month's rumination is directed at the true political independents and what I suspect is a large portion of the voting masses, among...


- Oct 22, 2019
November 2019
Back in April I used this space to raise a cautionary flag about the effort launched by the National Republican Party to sully the...


- Sep 24, 2019
October 2019
Several weeks ago I was fortunate to see the Broadway play To Kill A Mockingbird, the Aaron Sorkin adaption of the 1960 novel by Pulitzer...