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The Guardian: Charlie Kirk’s killing shouldn’t be used to foment further political division already polarized US

“Democracy is the way that we have diverse societies that don’t kill each other, largely,” Lilliana Mason, a leading scholar of partisanship, observed recently. She added: “As soon as we stop believing in it, it disappears.” Dr Mason’s own research suggests that there is sharply rising tolerance of political violence. On Wednesday, it claimed one more victim. The shocking killing of the co-founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, a hugely influential activist who rallied young people to Donald Trump’s cause and far-right ideology more broadly, has been widely and rightly ...

Solving hunger here, elsewhere, is possible

Is he name Abraham Maslow familiar to you? He was an influential psychologist who came up with a theory of how humans can reach their full potentials. His article titled “A Theory of Human Motivation” appeared in a 1943 edition of “Psychological Review.” In it, Maslow describes an ascending order of needs that must be met for people to become their best selves. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has five levels and takes the shape of a pyramid, with self-actualization at the top, the pinnacle where a person can achieve her or his full potential. Below self-actualization is esteem, ...

Be alert for text message phishing scam making rounds

Government officials are out with a new warning this week, trying to keep the general public aware of the latest schemes afoot to part them from their money. It seems cybercriminals have a new nationwide text message scam now circulating in Michigan that requests taxpayers’ personal banking information, according to the Michigan Department of Treasury. In this latest scheme, scammers send urgent, unsolicited messages that appear to come from the Michigan Department of Treasury. The message falsely claims that a refund has been processed and that accurate payment information must be ...

Adopt-A-Highway fall cleanup to begin Saturday, last of 2025

Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will take to the roadsides again starting Saturday through Sept. 28 for the third and final scheduled litter collection of 2025. Adopt-A-Highway is a Michigan Department of Transportation program designed to help keep the state’s highway roadsides clean and attractive. Participants adopt both sides of a section of state highway roadside to tend for at least a two-year period. A minimum 2-mile stretch of roadway is recommended. For the safety of all, motorists should watch for these volunteers, who wear high-visibility, yellow-green vests required by federal ...

App launched to help youth quit tobacco, vapes

Youth in Michigan now have a new way to access free help to quit using tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes and vapes. The My Life, My Quit program has launched a mobile app, making it easy for teens to get confidential support from their smartphones, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. “This new app will meet teens where they are with tools that support quitting tobacco products,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, chief medical executive, said in a recent news release. “We are grateful My Life, My Quit worked with young adults to update ...

Is another era of political violence upon us?

In his life's work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or left, a great deal of optimism about the direction of our nation's partisan politics. But his brutal assassination, captured in horrific ...