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Unfair to Democratic crooks?

President Donald Trump’s lame-duck pardons have drawn righteous wrath — corrupt politicians, war criminals, nefarious political operatives and personal friends whose convictions were erased or prison sentences eased because of their close ties with the outgoing president.

Ann Arbor author explores Great Lakes as the ‘inner coast’

Donovan Hohn has been there, part of what he describes as a preoccupation with “trying to make sense of where we are, where I live, by attending to the natural and the human both, by looking at places where the natural and historic overlap.”

Study suggests rural strategies help economies of shrinking cities

You won’t find barns and silos in Detroit.

Ballot battles without bruising brawling

As Michigan voters focus on major hot races such as those for president and U.S. Senate, some other contests, well, aren’t really contests.

What drives farmers to join farmers markets?

Why do farmers join new farmers markets, especially in poor urban areas where the financial risk is greater than in more affluent communities?

Do you live in a safe community? Maybe, maybe not

Worried about crime? If so, check out the Upper Peninsula, which has more of Michigan’s 10 safest small communities than any other part of the state.

Disappearing history: Michigan sites dropped from National Register of Historic Places

The Beechwood Store in Iron River Township, built in 1912 in the small Swedish settlement of Beechwood, played an essential role in the cultural and social life of its western Upper Peninsula community.