Jan 1
January 2025
With this January issue kicking off our 16th calendar year of producing Downtown Newsmagazine , it seemed an appropriate time to both do...
Nov 29, 2024
December 2024
This space in December of 2016 was used to offer some advice to readers, and in particular to my two sons, coming off Donald Trump’s...
Sep 25, 2024
October 2024
Every two years when the primary and general elections roll around I am reminded how way too many decades ago my mother would have me or...
May 30, 2024
June 2024
Not often do we have an opportunity to discuss what we do here at Downtown Publications so I am taking time this month to highlight a...
Dec 28, 2023
January 2024
Traditionally this space in a magazine is used by the publisher to hype the contents of the current issue – not a practice that we have...
Nov 21, 2023
December 2023
With the distribution of our December issue each year I set aside some time for review and reflection on what those of us who bring you...
Oct 24, 2023
November 2023
Progress made in Michigan on the issues of expanded voting access since Proposal 3 won at the ballot box in 2018, followed by Proposal 2...
Sep 26, 2023
October 2023
When in late June of this year Downtown Newsmagazine reported the theft of a Pride flag from the front of Shain Park Realtors on Martin...
Aug 29, 2023
September 2023
When Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson appeared at a June meeting of the state House Ethics and Oversight Committee and pushed...
Jul 25, 2023
August 2023
There are a number of updates at Downtown Newsmagazine that I would like to share this month with followers of our publication. 2023...