

Agriculture gains pose aquatic life concerns
Land and water harmonize to compose Michigan into an outdoorsman’s paradise with lakes and streams and rivers bordered by four of the Great Lakes – Superior, Huron, Erie and Michigan. Much like a Lennon and McCartney masterpiece, land and water create the paradise but contaminants from residential, industry and agriculture threaten to break up that harmony.
Jul 24, 2025


Lead testing program for kids ready to start
After multiple years of testing the municipal water in the beleaguered city of Flint every six months, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May of this year determined that lead levels in Flint’s municipal water consistently measure at three parts per billion (ppb). That matches lead levels in drinking water supplies of Birmingham and Bloomfield Township and is far below the federal actionable levels of 15 ppb or state actionable levels of 12 ppb as of J
Jun 26, 2025


Added concerns over biosolids and farming
© Alexey Stiop | Dreamstime.com By Stacy Gittleman In the early 1990s farmers across the nation, was well as in Michigan, began...
May 29, 2025


Pollinators’ threat of chemical over-use
By Stacy Gittleman With the heralding of summer comes the pressure to have the greenest, most weed and pest-free lawn in the...
Apr 22, 2025


The changing role of local libraries
With the coming of the digital age, how we look up information and access media has changed. The library catalog of index cards stored in…
Mar 26, 2025


Policing technology in local communities
According to Bloomfield Township police officers, on February 4 patrol officers tracked the driver of the gold Cadillac, Mohamad Qasim…
Feb 25, 2025


FDA: Controlling what goes in food products
Prompted in part by the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle and its examination of the unsanitary conditions of the Chicago…
Jan 30, 2025


Michigan immigrants: heightened concerns
Elizabeth Orozco-Orozco-Vasquez, executive director of Freedom House in Detroit, has seen it all before and, in the coming months, expects…
Jan 1, 2025


Making sure it’s safe to eat out in Oakland
When the late Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson would eat out at Oakland County restaurants and other food institutions inspected
Nov 29, 2024


Religion in Michigan’s public school systems
The debate over maintaining a secular environment in public schools as opposed to allowing the teaching of religious doctrine has taken on…
Oct 23, 2024








