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OP-ED: During National Volunteer Week—Why Michigan Needs AmeriCorps
by Robert Kolt, Rep. Julie Calley (R-Portland), Rep. Sam Singh (D-East Lansing)
Most people recognize the Peace Corps, a great American service program to help meet social and economic challenges internationally.
AmeriCorps is the…
OP-ED: Michigan Must Finally End Civil Forfeiture
by Jarrett Skorup
Michigan has made great strides to reforming civil forfeiture — the process that allows law enforcement to take someone’s property and forfeit it to the government. But Michigan still has laws that are among the weakest…
EDITORIAL: City Council Members Playing on Social Media During Public Hearings
We can't even comprehend having to write the headline that tops this editorial. Ann Arbor City Council members should never be playing on social media during open meetings or public hearings. But they are. Again.
The Ann Arbor…
OP-ED: A Big Pawprint—The Environmental Impact of Pet Food
by Cailin Heinze
Pet food is an industry worth nearly US$25 billion in the United States. Owners make decisions about what to feed their pets based on marketing, personal beliefs and pet preference. And as with human nutrition, it can be…
OP-ED: Trump Isn’t Lying, He’s Bullshitting – and It’s Far More Dangerous
by Lauren Griffin | The Conversation
Lying means you’re actually concerned about the truth.
If you’ve been paying attention to the news over the past week or so, you know that over the weekend America was introduced to the concept of…
OP-ED: Could Roe v. Wade Be Overturned?
by B. Jessie Hill | The Conversation
If you care about the future of abortion rights, now is a good time to worry.
A sweeping Supreme Court victory for pro-choice advocates last summer was quickly overrun by worries brought on by the…
Op-Ed: Time for Lansing to Open its Own Records to the Public
by Jane Briggs-Bunting
In 2016, a bipartisan group of 37 Michigan state representatives banded together to introduce a series of bills called the Legislative Open Records Act (LORA). These bill weren’t perfect, but they closed two…
OP-ED: Millennials With No Home of Their Own
by Suzanne Fields
EVERY GENERATION confronts its own obstacles. My parents eloped because they couldn’t afford to get married, and they hid the nuptials from their families for a year. They finally bought a big bed and moved it into the…
OP-ED: The Time is Now to Reform Prisons, Save Taxpayers Money
by Phil Power
NOT LONG AGO, most Republican lawmakers wanted to lock convicted criminals in prison and throw away the key. But that’s not so much the case anymore, in part because of a rising conservative organization, “Right on Crime.”…