by Matthew Stewart The Atlantic magazine May 17, 2018 The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem. For about a week every year in my childhood, I was a member of one of America’s fading aristocracies. Sometimes around Christmas, more often on the Fourth of July, […]
LISTENING SKILLS: How a Simple Reporter Can Beat the Experts
By Frank Buckley New York Post May 18, 2018 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton — AFP/Getty Images You can observe a lot just by watching, said Yogi Berra. And you can learn a lot just by talking to people. Instead of talking at them. Salena Zito is a reporter, and in 2016 she hung out in bars […]
Hurley Doctors Shed New Light on ‘Flint Water Crisis’
Hurley Medical Center is shown in this Flint Journal file photo. By Ron Fonger Flint Journal/MLive May 18. 2018 FLINT, MI — Doctors at Hurley Medical Center have dumped the term “lead-poisoned” when referring to Flint children who went through the city’s water crisis and adopted a replacement — “lead-exposed.” The doctors unanimously approved a resolution at […]
JOHN McCAIN: The Ultimate Rorschach Test
By A.B. Stoddard Real Clear Politics May 17, 2018 Some of you may still be debating the “laurel” vs. “yanny” recording that exploded online this week like another summer storm. It is an allegory for our troubled time, in which some of us simply cannot even hear what others hear, let alone understand the positions […]
HOUSTON ROCKETS: Do They Deserve Respect?
By JACK HAMILTON May 14, 2018 On Monday, the Houston Rockets open the Western Conference finals with the goal of reaching the NBA Finals for the first time since Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler took the team to a second consecutive title in 1995, the last spoils of the Jordan interregnum. The Rockets won a league-best, […]
Justice or Just Politics? Schuette, Calley Spar Over Flint
Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News May 8, 2018 The fight between Republican gubernatorial foes Bill Schuette and Brian Calley over the Flint water crisis prosecution might not decide the primary, experts say, but it poses problems for each and has divided their party. Attorney General Schuette and Special Prosecutor Todd Flood have charged 15 former […]
A Kentucky Derby Pick
This year’s Kentucky Derby — the 144th — will once again be telecast (on NBC) and simulcast in Michigan, this coming Saturday (May 5). Post time has been pushed back to its latest ever — 6:50 p.m. For the 23rd straight year, legally you can bet on it at the state’s only remaining pari-mutuel track, […]
“Hands Off Our Constitution,” Cries Anti-VNP Group
An organization calling itself “Citizens Protecting Michigan’s Constitution” (CPMC) is seeking to block the “Voters Not Politicians” ballot proposal from appearing on the statewide ballot this fall. CPMC claims that, while Michigan citizens have the authority to initiate amendments to the state Constitution, they are not allowed to make massive revisions to the basic charter […]
EDSALL: Meet the New Boss. Actually Quite Different From the Old Boss
By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post April 26, 2018 In the end, the wheelers and dealers faded away, trying to get what they could under cover of darkness. Their loss of stature was abrupt. Only those willing to soldier on as subordinates remained, ceding authority to their leader, President Trump. For four decades, from 1968 […]
Snyder, Lawmakers Dither as Michigan Equine Industry Implodes
It’s finally happening right in front of us — Michigan horse racing is being euthanized right on the track. Track? Well, yes, there is one left — at Northville Downs, where the trotters and pacers are still performing, but now even that facility is being sold for housing development. Within a year or two, standardbred […]