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Opinion

Let’s talk about names

Editorials and columns

What’s in a name? Well, quite a lot actually. Let’s talk about baby names for a minute. Are you curious what the most popular names given to babies are thus far this year? The most popular girl names to date from first to third are Olivia, Emma and Amelia. The three most popular boy ...

Dealing with naivety

Editorials and columns

No one likes to admit they were naive; it’s an embarrassing form of Should Have Known. Should Have Knowns are a form of Lack of Awareness for which justifications are few. ”I didn’t think,“ “I thought I knew,” “Why didn’t somebody tell me!” etc., etc., are all excuses that ...

Political battles aplenty

Editorials and columns

Not everybody in the state was watching them battle it out on the hardwood floor last Saturday. Not by a long shot. Far away from the NCAA arena were two other political battles. About 3000 "No King" anti-Donald Trump rallies unfolded around the nation including in Michigan where about ...

When the going gets tough, congress goes home!

Editorials and columns

Over a million federal employees are going without paychecks because the House and the Senate can’t agree on how to keep our government open. Calling this a national crisis would be an understatement. So what is Congress doing about it while a million federal employees are struggling to ...

In today’s NBA, beliefs can be a firing offense

Editorials and columns

There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job. League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most ...