

- 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...


- Aug 1, 2015
Local tax free land
It has been said that nothing is certain in this world except death and taxes, but for some property owners in the Birmingham/Bloomfield...


- Jul 1, 2015
Police force diversity
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1967, a group of about 80 black people were celebrating the return of soldiers from Vietnam at a...


- Jun 1, 2015
Religious freedom fight
Freedom is an important and significant word. It's the basis for the first three articles of our Bill of Rights. According to the...


- May 1, 2015
Nuclear drinking water threat
Plans by a Canadian power utility to bury nuclear waste along the eastern shore of Lake Huron has raised concerns about the possibility...


- May 1, 2015
Boomers’ drug challenge
Arlene claims she wasn’t a typical teen of the ‘60s and ‘70s – mostly because in those days she was against doing drugs during the era of...


- Apr 1, 2015
The kids are not all white
Each of us, at one time or another, has had to stop and ask who we are and what we stand for. It may occur during a period of...


- Mar 1, 2015
Oakland's last farmers
Clark Cook wakes before the dawn every day and heads to the barn at his north Oakland County farm to milk more than four dozen cows. By 9...


- Feb 1, 2015
Restaurant inspections
Nowadays, everybody is a food critic. From the local drive thru to metro Detroit’s finest five-star establishments, websites such as...


- Jan 1, 2015
The plight of illegal immigrants
The words are inscribed on a plaque in the pedestal in the Statue of Liberty, once the first sight new immigrants to the United States...