March 26, 2016
Reports make it painfully clear: Michigan is starving for reinvestment
I love my home state, but sometimes it just exhausts me. Case in point: the woeful condition of our cities....
Adventure Michigan
March 6, 2016
We should learn our lessons from the sad history of the Flint River
Technology news site The Verge recently asked a good question about the Flint water crisis: How did the Flint River...
February 18, 2016
If you don’t know where Michigan is on a map, you have bigger issues
I’ve been on vacation this week in Florida, where we booked a suite at a time-share resort that came with...
January 23, 2016
Time for a deep-winter visit to Detroit’s Belle Isle (with photo slideshow)
It’s late January and my kids are starting to go crazy from cabin fever, bouncing off the walls and relentlessly...
January 7, 2016
A few words about the aging pipeline carrying oil underneath the Straits of Mackinac
It’s hard to overstate what the Great Lakes mean to those of us who live in Michigan. The freshwater seas...
October 14, 2015
A few questions with a guy who spent the summer walking every street in Ferndale
Jim Pool is a man in motion. The founder and lead pastor of Renaissance Vineyard Church in Ferndale had just...
September 18, 2015
Welcome to Michigan, a basket case full of news
Michigan has long had an outsize presence in the national and even global news digest. That’s due mostly to Detroit;...
August 28, 2015
Late summer: A reflection on the changing season
It’s been too chilly the last few nights to sit on the front porch, my cherished nightly pastime these past...
August 15, 2015
Here is the latest indictment of lazy mass consumerism: Custom s’more-ready marshmallows
I’ve been out of town for the past week for a lakeside vacation, and while engaging in one of the...
July 4, 2015
On camping, not ‘glamping,’ in the Lake Michigan dunes
We were driving west along I-94, through that weird part of Michigan that mixes Bible Belt with adult video superstores,...
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