Columns

By Barry Hastings The President should declare the critically poor condition of our power and transportation (land, sea [water], air) infrastructures constitutes a national emergency of immense magnitude, and declare…

With all the buzz about the recent high court same-sex marriage arguments, a little something to celebrate slipped through the media cracks. The marriage equality decision is weeks, if not…

by Amy Kerr Hardin The Michigan roads proposal, billed as "road kill" after its resounding defeat Tuesday, was paved with cash, but it flowed in mostly one direction. Regardless of…

The media, in its consuming quest to be first and usually get it wrong, presumed it had a great story of police brutality on a long time criminal, Freddie Gray,…

By Barry Hastings Congress fiddles with sequestration of military funding while the world burns. Americans see whatever news directors determine will be the story of the day. There's no way…

by Amy Kerr Hardin It must hurt — the mental machinations and intellectual inconsistencies necessary for Michigan’s GOP lawmakers to time and again churn up conspiracy theories about federal government…