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Trump’s policies are hurting farmers and Tom Barrett isn’t helping us

Farmers like myself are struggling right now. We’re scrambling to keep our operations afloat. Seventy percent of farmers say that they’re unable to afford the fertilizer that they need to start …

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It’s time for professionals to run these convention elections

If you think you’re having a bad day, check in with Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel Jr. The East Lansing politico has seemingly all segments of the party breathing down his neck …

Six interesting stories and people running for Congress

History was not made at last week’s filing deadline. Lansing’s Elyon Badger did not turn in the 1,000 signatures needed to make the August ballot in the 7th Congressional District. Lansing …

A debt of dignity: Why our most vulnerable students can’t wait

Imagine a school where the hallways are so narrow that two students in wheelchairs cannot pass each other without one having to back away. Imagine a classroom where a student’s medical needs must …

Brink’s ‘Restore and Reform’ agenda

Pay-to-play politics, firing independent commissioners and inspectors, promising “rich-as-hell” donors massive tax giveaways, allowing foreign countries to invest billions into a leader’s …

A Rarity In Today’s Campaigns: The Unscripted Roundtable

Over at the Flap Jack in DeWitt this week, gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard spent an hour laying out how he plans to lower auto insurance rates.  Michigan’s are really high. Still. …

A tech-forward alternative

I am not on a bandwagon against data centers. I founded multiple tech businesses in Lansing, including one co-located at ACD.net, one of our own local micro data centers. I have worked in economic …

Deep Green project can strengthen Lansing’s future

We support having Deep Green, a leader in sustainable computing infrastructure, work in partnership with the Lansing Board of Water & Light to create a small-scale data center on E. Kalamazoo …

No more power plants in poor neighborhoods

Call the Deep Green “data center” what it is: a power plant in a poor neighborhood. The community learned only recently that the proposed project at “220 S. Larch Street and 3 adjoining …

Maybe we don’t view the world so differently after all

Republican and Democratic voters disagree on a lot, don’t they? Immigration. Acceptable tax levels. The extent of public programs. Whether Donald Trump is an acceptable president.  …