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Opinion

State offers naloxone kits for drug overdoses

Editorial

The state is making available — at no cost — kits for treating a drug overdose, when minutes can make the difference between life and death. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is providing free naloxone, medication that reverses opioid overdoses, at local health ...

ICE Barbie is gone, but will immigration policy improve?

Columns

The worst of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s many terrible moments in her recent congressional hearings on immigration control probably came when she admitted to being unfamiliar with the shockingly appalling case of Marimar Martinez. She is the Chicago woman who managed to ...

JFK grandson proves TV still bends knee to Kennedys

Columns

When you hear liberals complaining about how the media today are in urgent danger of “bending the knee” to President Donald Trump, point and laugh and think about the Kennedy family. Journalists bending the knee to the Kennedys has been mandatory since the 1950s. That’s their most obvious ...

As clocks get changed, test alarms in home

Editorial

Admittedly it’s a few days after the fact, but as Michiganders moved their clocks ahead one hour for daylight savings time Sunday, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs was encouraging residents to test their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. Daylight savings ...

Kristi Noem rides off into the sunset

Columns

By RICH LOWRY Syndicated columnist At times, you could be forgiven for having thought that Kristi Noem wanted to be a uniformed Department of Homeland Security officer rather than the secretary of the department. Now, the cabinet member most inclined to glamour shots out in the field is ...

Feeling bad about dumb injury? Athletes did worse

Columns

By GEORGIA GARVEY Syndicated columnist I hurt my knee taking a step onto a riser in a performance at my kids’ elementary school the other day. I’m not sure yet how serious the injury is, but it’s the kind of incident that makes you feel about a hundred years old and like a complete ...