Detroit Tour Guide Knows Best Path
September 10, 2010
DETROIT — He’s been at this for a quarter-century now, explaining black history to both white and black citizens; explaining Detroit’s rich and complex history to those who know nothing, and to those who think they understand it better than he does.
And he enjoys every minute of it, [...]

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Placing Public Universities Under State Bureaucracy Is No Way to Go
Guest Column
by Thomas J. Haas

September 10, 2010
Higher education governance has been in the news lately, driven by concerns about high tuition, affordability, and duplication of services.
Business Leaders for Michigan (BLM), a business trade group, has suggested that efficiencies can be gained by greater management [...]

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China Time Again
September 10, 2010
Dollars to donuts the Democratic candidate for governor goes to bed every night praying, “Please Lord, send me a new GM plant any time before November 2.”
Funny how history repeats itself.
Flashback to the last gov’s race between Ms. Granholm and Mr. DeVos. She probably had the same petition, as the Toyota [...]

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Rough Start for Republicans
September 3, 2010
Rick Snyder pulled an Andy Dillon the other day. Recall that Democrat Dillon’s maiden news conference for governor was just a sandwich short of a bust.
Well, it was not quite that bad, but Mr. Snyder’s cracker-jack team looked slightly inept when the party faithful showed up at the Breslin Center [...]

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Political Feast
by John Lindstrom
Gongwer News Service
September 3, 2010
It has always been a wonder why it is the American people feel the need to moan about the length of election campaigns. The exhaustion they emote when a campaign ad airs on television. The way they rend their garments when politicians speak on the news. The way [...]

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The China Wave
September 1, 2010
Even before Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero secured the Democratic nomination for governor, he and his party started replaying the “shipped jobs to China” mantra against Republican nominee and business executive Rick Snyder. That rhetoric worked to help to defeat the Republican candidate for governor in 2006, so repeating the tactic was [...]

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Hiding the Real Problems in Education
by Stephen A. Jones
September 1, 2010
Of all the experiments being tried in the name of education reform, the one for which I’m most interested in seeing the results is beginning this fall at Barbara Jordan Elementary School in Detroit.
At Barbara Jordan Elementary, there will be no principal — the school [...]

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Reckless Love Affair
by Susan J. Demas
September 1, 2010
Attention, teenage girls. Are you bored? Not sure what to do with your life? Do you want your boyfriend to marry you so you can live happily ever after?
Better yet, do you want to be popular? Have magazine covers devoted to you? Even end up on a kickass [...]

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The Kwame Bleed
September 3, 2010
DETROIT — A year ago, there were lots of reasons to think Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox would be the next governor.
The son of working-class Irish immigrants joined the Marines, put himself through the University of Michigan’s college and law school, and then was elected attorney general, the only Republican to [...]

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The Politics and Personality of Justice
by John Lindstrom
Gongwer News Service
August 27, 2010
Before considering the intrigue that who sits on the Supreme Court can cause, and by that we mean any person sitting on any Supreme Court whether it is John Marshall or Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court or Thomas Cooley or Alton Davis [...]

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