Paramilitary movement: Welcome to the militia
We have all seen them before – armed, military-like figures like those showing up at the state capitol building this past spring to...
Oct 8, 2020
Woke fashion: Environment and the industry
When Detroit Denim Company reopens its retail shop, ideally sometime next year, customers’ experiences will look quite different than...
Oct 8, 2020
Pandemic vote: ballots to start coming this month
“Vote early and vote often.” That tongue-in-cheek election phrase, believed to have first been uttered in 1856 by John Van Buren, an...
Sep 9, 2020
Go green: local communities’ sustainability efforts
While most people have been literally assaulted in the past several years with headlines about climate change and the national debate...
Sep 9, 2020
Schools caught in a ‘no win’ reopening situation
Carly Sheridan can see both sides of the coin. As a middle school math teacher, she yearns to be back in the classroom this September,...
Aug 11, 2020
Environmental rules rollback attempts continuing
During Scott Pruitt’s very brief stint – February 2017 to July 2018 – as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
Aug 11, 2020
Local police policies: the rules governing officers
Our society erupted in late May and June after the heinous and unprovoked murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police...
Jul 14, 2020
Dams of Oakland: safety ratings on structures
Luke Trumble, a dam safety engineer with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), will be the first to tell...
Jul 14, 2020
Tracking invaders: hunting for non-native species
Katie Grzesiak currently has one thing on her mind: garlic mustard. The invasive terrestrial plant might look cute with its small white...
Jun 16, 2020
The meth problem starting to show once again
While to many it is considered a seminal piece of television artistry, in reality Breaking Bad was just a TV series, a mere work of...
Jun 16, 2020
