Cameras in the courts: rules vary but change afoot
During Derek Chauvin’s recent trial for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, news stations nationally aired footage from inside…
Nov 24, 2021
Plastics: In our land, water and food. Now our air.
By Stacy Gittleman Benjamin Braddock, the protagonist in the classic 1967 movie The Graduate, played by a young Dustin Hoffman, is led to...
Oct 26, 2021
Phoenix rising? Pontiac on the edge of a recovery.
One hundred years ago, riding north up Woodward Avenue from Detroit to Pontiac was a voyage from one successful urban landscape to another.…
Oct 26, 2021
EJ: assessing the systemic quality of life issues
Most Michiganders place a value on natural resources and environmental stewardship. They want to protect the environment so they can enjoy…
Sep 28, 2021
Prepping for a possibility of survival challenges
The last few years' global calamities sound like eerie passages straight out of from the Bible – a deadly world-wide pandemic…
Sep 28, 2021
The role of wind and solar in the future of power
Early August – specifically August 10 – will be remembered as an important day for the environment. The United Nations issued a grim…
Aug 24, 2021
Voting rights: The historic and ongoing skirmishes
Depending on your point of view, the 2020 general election was the most secure in history, or rife with fraud, bringing forth illegitimate…
Aug 24, 2021
Critical race theory: politics enters the classroom
Over Memorial Day weekend of 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a district of the city known as Greenwood, filled with affluent and educated…
Jul 27, 2021
Forever chemicals and our food, water supply
Although what we now refer to as “forever chemicals” or PFAS have been around since the 1940s, scientists, researchers, and government…
Jul 27, 2021
Warming waters: Lakes signal climate change
Coming across a body of water in Michigan doesn't take very long. Whether it’s the Great Lakes, which, according to the United States…
Jun 23, 2021
