

Up, Up and Away
There may be few things more beautiful on a clear summer evening, just before sunset, than the vision of a hot air balloon gliding...
May 1, 2017


Immigration enforcement
Thirty-seven years after fleeing a humanitarian crisis in his homeland of Cambodia, Rochester resident and business owner David Lee is...
May 1, 2017


Human waste sludge on farms
Farmer Dave Blakney and his son, Chris, started growing row crops about 17 years ago on their 300-acre farm in Huron Township, but it was...
Apr 1, 2017


The Whistleblower Act
Ben Graham was 25 years old, and thought he had hit the employment jackpot, having landed what he believed was a dream job as a...
Apr 1, 2017


Revenge porn
Lindsay (not her real name) is a beautiful Oakland County twenty-something, working to make it in the modeling world. A 2014 photo shoot...
Mar 1, 2017


Paraquat
J. William Langston was working as the head of neurology in July of 1982 at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, in California, where a...
Mar 1, 2017


Charter schools
A public school education is as enshrined in America as the Pilgrims, with the first public school founded in Boston in 1635. But there...
Feb 1, 2017


Impact of septic systems
State environmental regulators estimate there are about 1.3 million on-site wastewater, or septic, systems operating in the state of...
Feb 1, 2017


Kids or criminals
At the end of each school year, local Michigan school districts are required to report to the Michigan Department of Education the total...
Jan 1, 2017


Protecting the rivers
John Hartig was a senior high school student in 1969 when he and his classmates in Allen Park watched a plume of smoke rise from the...
Jan 1, 2017











