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...

Washington Post journalist Isaac Stanley-Becker, a Rhodes Scholar writing from the UK where he is working on his doctorate in Modern...

Michigan has developed a heritage the last few decades of restricting the rights of registered voters from fully participating in the...

The late William Safire – author, journalist, columnist – tells us in his Political Dictionary that the term “progressive” refers to a...

As a general rule I try each month to vary the topics I tackle in this column, for obvious reasons. At this writing, I had several issues...

Anyone who thought after the 2018 November general election that we would get a reprieve from the incessant talk and news coverage of...

The Republican party in Michigan is not doing itself any favors with the power grab antics on display during the lame duck session of the...

To help set the stage for this month's column, I have been following politics in Oakland and the state of Michigan since the mid-1970s. I...