

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...


Aug 20, 2019
September 2019
Those of us who have been around for a while all have our memorable stories to tell about interactions with L. Brooks Patterson during...


Jul 23, 2019
August 2019
FÂor over 40 years I have watched a number of efforts in the Michigan legislature to require transparency for state lawmakers, so I don't...


Jun 25, 2019
July 2019
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...


May 21, 2019
June 2019
Washington Post journalist Isaac Stanley-Becker, a Rhodes Scholar writing from the UK where he is working on his doctorate in Modern...


Apr 23, 2019
May 2019
Michigan has developed a heritage the last few decades of restricting the rights of registered voters from fully participating in the...