What extras do you have in your living spaces, or maybe even hanging around at work? Let’s talk about food. How many of you have full freezers, refrigerators, pantry and food shelves that are filled to the brim with foods you don’t use? When my refrigerator freezer gets fuller than ...
Here's a recent story from the Chicago Tribune that jumped off the page when I read it. Northwestern University is finishing up the construction of a new $800 million football stadium. This is supposedly a nonprofit "educational" entity. Uh-huh. Northwestern -- an "institution of higher ...
To help celebrate my recent birthday, a small group of friends asked me what I’d like to do to mark the milestone. There are a couple of quietly beautiful things about that question. First, they wanted to take time out of their lives to celebrate me. That alone feels overwhelming and ...
A new state budget season has begun and here at the Michigan League for Public Policy, we'e urging the Michigan Legislature to make sure students in our state have the support they need to thrive in their classrooms. That starts with stronger investments in our K-12 education system. While ...
Surely, I have plenty of company in wanting to jump off the Donald Trump distraction express. Rage is its fuel. A weekend isn't short enough to contain the demands on attention. Just this last two-day break encountered: The cinematic ICE raids in Minneapolis. Threats against Exxon for its ...
Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting -- then years of elevated criminal violence -- should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading. Like the killing of George Floyd, ...