Former state Sen. Arlan Meekhof was in the news last week – his West Michigan Community Preservation Fund causing controversy once again. It’s basically a smaller-scale, Michigan version of the Clinton Foundation, but with even less transparency.

Since Virginia voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in January, there’s been lots of speculative talk about the future of the long-stalled constitutional amendment. The House voted last week to remove the deadline for ratification (which came and went decades ago), and the technical qu…

The NCAA says college sports are not professional but rather amateur sports. Really?

Remember back in the day when you knew what size you took? You know, when a small was actually a small and a medium was somewhere between a small and a large, and jeans had standard numbers assigned to them that made sense and stayed consistent? What the heck happened?

Michigan Education Association President Paula Herbart wrote an op-ed about what “Trump and DeVos” are “doing” to some public schools which will make them “suffer … even more.” It badly misses the mark, has a lot of factual errors, and by not putting things in proper context, gets a lot of t…

I recently interviewed Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who claimed the president’s proposed $4.8 trillion budget includes “a significant step toward returning flexibility to the states through a proposal to block grant all of the elementary and secondary education funds ... and let (state…

The modern three-color traffic light was invented 100 years ago. The inventor was a Michigander named William Potts. History does not reveal whether another traffic phenomenon, the pot hole, was named after Mr. Potts, as well. If it was his idea, no doubt he distanced himself from it the sam…

I read an article the other day that talked about interruptions. It was very timely for me because I had just had my day’s agenda interrupted by someone who needed to see me. It couldn’t wait – that was evident by the tone of his voice.

If Benjamin Franklin has taught us anything, there are two sure things in life: death and taxes. As tax season kicks into full gear, it’s a good time to also start planning for the inevitable.

Michigan House Republicans, especially House Speaker Lee Chatfield, want to spend more on road repair without raising taxes. And to do this, they want to direct the sales tax that gets levied on fuel to road repair.

I can the birds chirping. I can hear the dishwasher running. I am starting to understand speech better.

‘There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” – Harry S Truman

It’s relentless, isn’t it?

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl this year. There are several reasons for that, but the two big ones are the commercials and the halftime show.

Michigan revenue estimators believe that the state treasury will end the fiscal year with around $900 million left in the bank. Lawmakers are going to talk about what to do with some of this surplus, and other topics, as they start to budget for the next year.

I had the strange experience recently of reading a girl’s diary.

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat met at Camp David where Barak offered almost all of what Arafat asked for in exchange for making peace with the Jewish state. Arafat rejected the offer.

Jury duty is one of the unique rights and obligations of citizenship. The Constitution’s Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant the right to “a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.” The Seventh Amendment guarantees that the right to trial by jury in many civil cases.

There’s good news and bad news for Michigan voters eager to pick a Democratic presidential nominee.