For more than a decade at this newspaper I’ve written endless news stories on every imaginable topic. Well over 1,000 of those dealt with incidents, issues and events pertaining to all aspects of public safety.
Every election cycle we must endure challenges and allegations about fraud (conservatives) and discrimination (liberals) when it comes to voter ID laws. This year is no different.
This [past] month in the U.S.
The exact moment it happened was at a large round table in a ballroom of majestic gilt in a grand hotel. Tink and I found ourselves seated next to strangers so we both plunged into jump-starting a conversation because we like the stories of others.
It has been almost 15 years since I first had the privilege of penning a weekly column. Sadly this may be the last one. I find I must now break my cardinal rule and write and entire story about the one subject I’ve promised I’d never write about. Politics.
On Sunday afternoon, I was confined to the house due to a medical issue. Somewhere that afternoon, I decided to go sit by the pool where it was quiet. There’s very little about my life that is quiet. Between all the tasks, meetings, appointments, and drama, I find that quiet is almost unknown.
With students starting and going back to college this month, probably the biggest concern for young people today is the cost of higher education or the massive amount of student debt they face.
Reacting to Donald Trump’s speech last week to the Detroit Economic Club, Hillary Clinton said her Republican opponent tried to “make his old, tired ideas sound new.” As opposed to her old, tired ideas of higher taxes on the wealthy with government as redistributor.
August marks the 20th anniversary of the transformative Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This bipartisan welfare reform legislation signed by President Bill Clinton on Aug.
There is a country store that sets in the middle of hundreds of acres of farm land embedded with hardwoods and pines that have grown, untended, for a century or two.
