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Detroit students sue state, claiming constitutional right to literacy being violated DETROIT (WXYZ) - Is the opportunity to learn to read a constitutional right in the United States of America? …

by Barry Hastings This war was a quarrel over seaman's rights and the right to free oceangoing trade. It occurred during a period when England's main adversary in a war…

I hired Nick Hoffman, a University of Michigan graduate, as staff writer and police beat and court reporter for the Hastings Banner and Reminder in the mid-1990s. Nick stuck it…

What are the polite ways of saying someone lied? Something including one or more of the following or they are described as: mis-spoke, incorrectly remembered, mis-remembered, misinterpretation, misstatement, prevarication, fairy…

TEACHING CHILDREN TO FAIL "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."– Thomas A. Edison How do we measure ‘good parenting?’ What yardstick do we use to…

I notice everyone is excited about Donald Trump’s proclamations Mexico will pay for the wall to be erected on the southern border. Many assert that will never happen, as did…