The Chinese say they're willing to change the rules that protect their precious auto industry. That'd be the industry companies like General Motors have spent a generation building with Chinese partners because, over there, he who controls the govern...
It's no trifle that we received two emails within two weeks about the word trifle. The first one came from a listener named Matt who writes: Something insignificant is often described as 'a mere trifle.' At the same time, something that could be very...
It's no secret that kids who aren't sitting in class aren't learning, and Detroit has the highest rate of chronic absenteeism in the country, according to a 2016 Associated Press report. We hear policy recommendations and deep-dive discussions about...
The city of Kalamazoo has made headlines with its unique Kalamazoo Promise: anonymous donors pledging to pay up to 100 percent of college tuition for the kids who graduate from the city's public schools. Here comes another effort: Shared Prosperity K...
Attorney General Bill Schuette has announced plans to sue an Escanaba-based tugboat company for allegedly damaging underwater cables and a pipeline with an anchor in the Straits of Mackinac. The anchor also likely caused dents in Line 5 the oil and g...
Tomorrow, the Grand Rapids Film Festival will screen the short film Detroit Diamond. The film is about a young mother addicted to heroin. The state is working to take away her son. Hamoody Jaafar, who directed the film, and Michael R. Flores, who wro...
Governor Snyder has decided the water in Flint is safe enough to end bottled water distribution, although the state will continue to distribute water filters to residents. The Democrats are also holding an endorsement convention this weekend in Detro...
Michigan State University seems to have used private statements between a student and a counselor in a press release to the public. David Jesse with the Detroit Free Press outlines the details in a story published yesterday. Here's the timeline: On M...
An eggcorn is a word or phrase that occurs when someone re-interprets a word in a way that makes sense and allows them to understand its components. For example, someone might say all intensive purposes, when what they really mean is all intents and...
There's little doubt that the most appalling part of the Snyder administration has been the laughably misnamed Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. You have to give the MDEQ this: It never misses an opportunity to show that it doesn't care a...
