Cut taxes? Just eliminate them! Why didn’t we do this before?
Pretend you didn’t know President Donald Trump’s approval rating is 42% in Michigan. You can tell Republicans are sweating the 2026 elections by the far-fetched, pie-in-the-sky ideas …
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Investing in public education is investing in our future
Michigan is struggling to retain teachers. A recent study outlines how teachers are exiting the profession at an alarming rate, especially in the high-demand field of special education. Teacher …
Would Republicans rather be right or be happy?
I can’t get a few words from Kevin Rinke out of my mind.
Rinke, if you remember, made a little money back in the day running a car dealership in Southeast Michigan. He self-funded a …
Letter to editor
For all of my 86 years, I never thought, nor did it even occur to me, the question: Will I continue
to enjoy living in this Republic in 2027? Hard to contemplate, but it’s becoming more of a …
When is it time to turn around and stare?
“HEY, WAGLER! FUCK YOU!”
That was the first one I heard.
The barrage of shouted insults, including toward University of Illinois’s Keaton Wagler, was well underway by the time I took …
Opinion – Proposed 345kV lines are wrong for Meridian Township
Communities throughout the Greater Lansing region have received notice of an upcoming project to install 345kV Transmission lines from Onieda to Sabine by ITC in the coming years. The current …
Meeting people where they are … wherever that is
Back in 2017, an out-of-state signature collector hanging outside the downtown bus station asked me to sign a petition to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.90 per hour.
I don’t sign …
Republican races flare up, Democrat races flame out
A GOP operative suggested on Facebook the other day that Republicans needed to “unify” behind Congressman John James for governor.
I laughed out loud.
Republicans unify? Maybe after the …
Data Centers Plug In The Far Right With The Far Left
Before taking off for Christmas, one of the state Legislature’s most conservative members, Rep. Jim DeSana dropped a bill to end the new universal state tax break the state gave to data centers two …
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We, the undersigned peoples’ organizations of Lansing, unequivocally condemn the Jan. 3rd attack on Venezuela, the illegal abduction of the president and first lady of Venezuela, and the subsequent …
Investing in public education is investing in our future
Michigan is struggling to retain teachers. A recent study outlines how teachers are exiting the profession at an alarming rate, especially in the high-demand field of special education. Teacher …
Would Republicans rather be right or be happy?
I can’t get a few words from Kevin Rinke out of my mind. Rinke, if you remember, made a little money back in the day running a car dealership in Southeast Michigan. He self-funded a …
Letter to editor
For all of my 86 years, I never thought, nor did it even occur to me, the question: Will I continue to enjoy living in this Republic in 2027? Hard to contemplate, but it’s becoming more of a …
When is it time to turn around and stare?
“HEY, WAGLER! FUCK YOU!” That was the first one I heard. The barrage of shouted insults, including toward University of Illinois’s Keaton Wagler, was well underway by the time I took …
Opinion – Proposed 345kV lines are wrong for Meridian Township
Communities throughout the Greater Lansing region have received notice of an upcoming project to install 345kV Transmission lines from Onieda to Sabine by ITC in the coming years. The current …
Meeting people where they are … wherever that is
Back in 2017, an out-of-state signature collector hanging outside the downtown bus station asked me to sign a petition to raise the state’s minimum wage to $9.90 per hour. I don’t sign …
Republican races flare up, Democrat races flame out
A GOP operative suggested on Facebook the other day that Republicans needed to “unify” behind Congressman John James for governor. I laughed out loud. Republicans unify? Maybe after the …
Data Centers Plug In The Far Right With The Far Left
Before taking off for Christmas, one of the state Legislature’s most conservative members, Rep. Jim DeSana dropped a bill to end the new universal state tax break the state gave to data centers two …
Opinion
We, the undersigned peoples’ organizations of Lansing, unequivocally condemn the Jan. 3rd attack on Venezuela, the illegal abduction of the president and first lady of Venezuela, and the subsequent …