The Michigan State Police is once again taking part in a national initiative that encourages residents to properly dispose of expired, unused and unwanted prescription pills. All of MSP’s 31 posts will participate in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. ...
On the surface, this bill may look like it’s about voter identification and preventing so called fraud, but it’s really about making voting harder for eligible citizens in the state of Michigan. If this bill becomes law, voters who have used their standard driver's license or state ID to ...
When President Donald Trump says he "may do" something, it also means he "may not" do something. He covers all his bases so no one can be surprised. Trump realizes that people will believe what they want to believe. Because of that fact, Trump gives messages that some people can embrace and ...
The late, great stand up artist George Carlin got it exactly right some years ago when he held forth on society's tendency to restructure verbal phraseology to make it easier on the ear, to render it less offensive, more comfortable. He famously offered several examples of this, including what ...
A recent letter to the editor asked if we (Americans? Yoopers?) are "gasoholics?" The writer explained how he recently purchased a Chevy EV pickup and is happily avoiding the volatile fuel prices of a declining petroleum resource, reducing his climate change impact and also the apparently ...
Norway is, by almost any metric, a profoundly successful nation. It's rich, democratic and relatively corruption-free. It's not a socialist country, but fans of a robust welfare state and high taxes see much to admire in the very progressive Norwegian model. It also benefits from having the ...