Farming challenges: coronavirus adds to concerns
LC Scramlin is the third-generation to work the land on his family farm in Holly, Michigan, where he currently raises sheep, lamb and...
May 19, 2020
Municipal outlook: community leaders' updates
Over two months into a stunning economic recession wrought by an invisible enemy, the COVID-19 virus, local municipalities are grappling...
May 19, 2020
Predicting prison terms and parole
Imagine your future was determined by statistics inputted and spit out by a computer. That is just what is occurring to convicted...
Mar 24, 2020
Coronavirus: What’s being done in local area
The panic button has been hit. On it reads “coronavirus,” and we're all feeling its ramifications, if not its symptoms. Local and state...
Mar 20, 2020
School shootings, shooting drills, student stress
At two minutes before noon on Friday, December 19, 2019 – the last day of school before winter break – a BluePoint alert was sounded at...
Feb 25, 2020
Cosmetics contamination: Little FDA oversight
Melissa Cooper Sargent would start every workshop on cosmetics at the Ecology Center with one question, "True or false, the FDA must...
Feb 25, 2020
The Interview: County Executive David Coulter
Oakland County is in the midst of change – after 27 years as county executive, L. Brooks Patterson passed away last August, leaving a...
Jan 28, 2020
Current state of recreational cannabis business
Michigan's Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) announced adult-use marijuana sales had crossed the $10 million mark on...
Jan 28, 2020
Native Americans: The 12 tribes of Michigan
Curtis Williams fully acknowledges he was “that precocious, annoying kid in second grade.” Matter-of-factly, he recounts how, since he alrea
Dec 27, 2019
Microplastics infiltrate the human food chain
The average American is believed to ingest hundreds of thousands of minuscule pieces of plastic every year, equivalent to about five grams o
Dec 27, 2019
