Apr 25, 2023
Changes still needed to pending bottle bill
Michigan's 1976 bottle bill law, which provides for return of containers for carbonated drinks, could be on the verge of being updated to...
Apr 25, 2023
Finally addressing plague of gun violence
As we note in our story on improvements local school are making towards school security in the wake of unprecedented school shootings and...
Mar 28, 2023
Fear and loathing in Bloomfield Hills Schools
Bloomfield Hills High School has been one of the top-rated high schools in the state, a model of how a multicultural community can come...
Mar 28, 2023
Transparency best approach on sex abuse
On a number of occasions we have been critical of Cranbrook Schools for lack of transparency but we have to hand it to officials there on...
Feb 21, 2023
Birmingham: Move carefully on cannabis issue
Michigan voters in 2018 approved Proposal 1, the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act, to legalize recreational cannabis in...
Feb 21, 2023
Name Jana Ecker as the next city manager
Birmingham City Commissioners are now approaching a decision on who to employ as the next city manager when current city manager Tom...
Jan 24, 2023
Police departments lacking transparency
It's a difficult time to be a cop – recruitment for all police departments is tougher, including at our highly-rated local departments,...
Jan 24, 2023
A solution for downtown development site
Like many in Birmingham, over the last several years, we have been observing the requests, reviews, planning board and commission...
Dec 28, 2022
Take commissioner Host to the ethics board
City commissioners have a tall order – for a basically volunteer position ($5 a meeting). Each of them are tasked with representing...
Dec 28, 2022
County board pay hikes cause for concern
We were not among those who feared the shift of control of the county commission in recent years to the Democrats after a decades long...
