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

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

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

Families with college-age or post-college age young men and women living away from the area know well the Thanksgiving ritual the younger...

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

Back in April I used this space to raise a cautionary flag about the effort launched by the National Republican Party to sully the...

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...

Those of us who have been around for a while all have our memorable stories to tell about interactions with L. Brooks Patterson during...

F­or over 40 years I have watched a number of efforts in the Michigan legislature to require transparency for state lawmakers, so I don't...

You have arrived at this page to read my monthly column, so then you have already seen one of the major changes that we have made to...