Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.” Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms. I have long been wary of politicians, but even I was surprised at how authoritarian many were eager ...

Nine months is a long time. It’s almost enough time to grow a whole human. It’s 180 early-morning wake-ups and late dinners. And it’s a really long time to be cut off from the lifeblood of your business during the busiest time of year. MDOT’s nine-month, $24.7-million project consists ...

Not a month goes by, it seems, when the country doesn’t have some minor cultural trend to spar over. These “debates” can be fun or not. But in almost every case, fights over these passing fixations are futile. OK. Let’s get specific. There’s that recent skirmish over something ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer carved out a clear position on government transparency by proposing to slash the budget for the one office in Lansing that holds lawmakers to account. The governor’s spending plan would cut funding for the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) by $8.3 million, or 28% of ...

At a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Donald Trump said that if he is not elected in November, there will be a “bloodbath.” That he said that much is true. Having actually read the text of his remarks, however, I do not believe he was threatening: Elect me president or the streets will run red ...

“What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, B rick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain’t nothin’ more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.”- (Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin ...