- Apr 1, 2016
Recreational pot drive
Approaching the eighth anniversary of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act (MMMA), overwhelmingly approved by Michigan voters, the current...
- Mar 1, 2016
What’s below the surface?
Weaving under streets, yards, intersections, between miles of water mains, cables and a network of natural gas lines, four interstate...
- Mar 1, 2016
The local lead threat
Health and environmental experts have been warning people for decades about the health risks associated with exposure to lead. But, as...
- Feb 1, 2016
Protecting student athletes
Training a student athlete, such as a football player, in the old days, consisted of heading to the school's weight room and pumping iron...
- Feb 1, 2016
Public safety transparency
Michigan is the worst. At least that was the finding of a 2015 national report card issued by the Center for Public Integrity grading...
- Dec 1, 2015
Sex offender registry questions
If knowledge is power, then it would seem that knowing the names, addresses and other identifying information of some 38,521...
- Dec 1, 2015
Health risks with artificial turf
Old car and truck tires, pulverized and repurposed, create cushioning in artificial athletic fields nationwide, enabling schools to...
- Nov 1, 2015
Protecting the rivers
It's a chemical most have likely never heard of, glyphosate, other than as the weed killer Roundup. A white crystal that is odorless, it...
- Oct 1, 2015
Cost of legislative franking
Should public schools require students to be vaccinated as a condition of attendance? Do you support legalizing marijuana? Should...
- Sep 1, 2015
Municipal e-mail policies
One in six American workers say that e-mail is "very important" for doing their job, with about 78 percent of office workers in the...
