- Sep 9, 2020
Pandemic vote: ballots to start coming this month
“Vote early and vote often.” That tongue-in-cheek election phrase, believed to have first been uttered in 1856 by John Van Buren, an...
- Sep 9, 2020
Go green: local communities’ sustainability efforts
While most people have been literally assaulted in the past several years with headlines about climate change and the national debate...
- Aug 11, 2020
Schools caught in a ‘no win’ reopening situation
Carly Sheridan can see both sides of the coin. As a middle school math teacher, she yearns to be back in the classroom this September,...
- Aug 11, 2020
Environmental rules rollback attempts continuing
During Scott Pruitt’s very brief stint – February 2017 to July 2018 – as the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
- Jul 14, 2020
Local police policies: the rules governing officers
Our society erupted in late May and June after the heinous and unprovoked murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police...
- Jul 14, 2020
Dams of Oakland: safety ratings on structures
Luke Trumble, a dam safety engineer with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), will be the first to tell...