State Rep. Steve Marino, whose name surfaced repeatedly at the Larry Inman bribery trial in Lansing, has engaged in a host of political shenanigans throughout his political career, all the way back to, well, to 2014 when he was first elected at age 25. The young Republican from Macomb County raised suspicions that he was allegedly involved in Rep. Inman’s scheme to pocket $10,000—perhaps as...

The nation’s higher education system is in crisis and that trauma has dragged down few states as dramatically as Michigan.  Like colleges across the U.S., our state’s 15 public universities suffer from falling enrollment, declining state funding, high tuition rates, exploding student debt and cutbacks in curriculum.  When high dropout rates are added to the equation, few states are in such dire shape as Michigan. ...