

Jan 26, 2021
February 2021
Believe in truth: To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis...
Jan 3, 2021
January 2021
The first issue of a new year is certainly an appropriate time to give a status report to the community on Downtown newsmagazine and what...


Nov 4, 2020
November 2020
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. There's no...


Sep 9, 2020
September 2020
Our country's founding fathers had a concern about the development of political parties, fearing they would over time help divide the...


Aug 11, 2020
August 2020
The failings of the novel coronavirus testing/tracing effort in the country and Oakland County took on a special significance in my...


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 19, 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