Last night I had dinner with Morris Dees, the legendary founder and head of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the group that essentially put the Ku Klux Klan out of business. Not many people know this, but Dees is in Michigan fairly often these days....
Insecticides widely used on farms, lawns and gardens known as neonicotinoids are showing up in rivers across the Great Lakes region. Michelle Hladik, a research chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the lead author of the new study in the journ...
This story is a part of Mornings In Michigan, our new series about the sounds of morning rituals in our state. In Dearborn many residents wake up to the sound of a sacred chant from a local house of worship. It's the adhan, or call to prayer, that's...
The local coverage of sexual assaults at Michigan State University seemed to fly under the national radar for months, until hundreds of the victims of former sports doctor Larry Nassar spoke up in court. Now it's a national headline, and will be for...
删除受托人 To the best of my knowledge, the New York Times, the nation's newspaper of record, has never before bothered to notice Michigan State University's Board of Trustees. But in a stunning editorial Wednesday, the Times called on Governor...
The Abdul El-Sayed campaign for governor is alleging that there are racist motivations behind questioning whether he is eligible for office because he lived outside the state and was registered to vote in another state. El-Sayeds followers are livid....
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees has appointed former Governor John Engler as interim president of the university. That's after Lou Anna Simon resigned in the wake of the scandal over MSU sports doctor Larry Nassar sexually assaulting...
Let's say you're sending someone an email, maybe to thank them for visiting you in the hospital. Would you say I appreciate you taking the time to stop by or I appreciate your taking the time to stop by? Believe it or not, some people have pretty str...
One of the central problems of any government or corporation is this: Whose job is it to keep an eye on those in charge? Political science professors are fond of quoting the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who supposedly put it this way: Who will gu...
We're downstairs at Elderly Instruments in Lansing. There's a lot of talent inside these walls. (See a previous Artisans of Michigan from Elderly here.) This place is like an incubator, really. You can bounce ideas off everybody. It's pretty fertile...
