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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 ...

When faith takes the field

One of the fun things I love during the NFL season is getting into the back-and-forth banter on Facebook with my high school and college friends. One of my college classmates posts his weekly "Bum List," where he asks those of us whose teams lost the previous Sunday to still "rep" our squad. As a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan, I have taken some friendly heat regarding their three-year absence from the playoffs. For this week's Bum List, my college classmate, a Steelers fan, told me he saw "potential" in Dallas' win over the Washington Commanders, while lamenting that Pittsburgh should ...

Closed primaries are a curse on our democracy

I didn't leave my political party; my party left me. Both of them. I've been a Democrat, and I've been a Republican. What I am now doesn't matter. The point is that a lot of American voters feel perpetually frustrated by the choices they find on the November ballot. The Democratic or ...