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Is downtown headed for a downturn?

Over the summer, there seemed to be a higher number than usual of businesses closing their doors or facing significant changes. Thunder Bay Winery moved from the Center Building to their manufacturing facility on Water Street. Sweet Baby James closed its doors. Noise & Toys relocated outside ...

What's wrong with our schools?

Author and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones published an emotional essay in the New York Times Magazine last week titled "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" In the piece, Hannah-Jones writes about the consequences of having deliberately selected a school for her daughter, ...

New poll: Michiganders want affordable water for all

As we all feel the pressure of increasing costs of living, a recent poll shows that 89% of Michigan voters agree: unaffordable costs shouldn’t prevent anyone from having clean, safe drinking water. The poll, commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council and conducted by EPIC-MRA, ...

A president of personal revenge: Pray, people

Atone, America. The high holiday Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, just passed us by at sundown on Sept. 21. Our country, thanks to Donald Trump, has become the scourge of the world. Nowhere was that clearer than in the United Nations General Assembly (Tuesday) where Trump asked world ...

Patrick Clancy's riveting interview

Patrick Clancy's interview on "60 Minutes" was among the most riveting, painful and spiritually challenging conversations I have witnessed in years. It was not merely an interview about a criminal trial or a family tragedy. It was the testimony of a father attempting to remain alive after the ...