

What’s below the surface?
Weaving under streets, yards, intersections, between miles of water mains, cables and a network of natural gas lines, four interstate...
Mar 1, 2016


The local lead threat
Health and environmental experts have been warning people for decades about the health risks associated with exposure to lead. But, as...
Mar 1, 2016


Protecting student athletes
Training a student athlete, such as a football player, in the old days, consisted of heading to the school's weight room and pumping iron...
Feb 1, 2016


Public safety transparency
Michigan is the worst. At least that was the finding of a 2015 national report card issued by the Center for Public Integrity grading...
Feb 1, 2016


Sex offender registry questions
If knowledge is power, then it would seem that knowing the names, addresses and other identifying information of some 38,521...
Dec 1, 2015


Health risks with artificial turf
Old car and truck tires, pulverized and repurposed, create cushioning in artificial athletic fields nationwide, enabling schools to...
Dec 1, 2015


Protecting the rivers
It's a chemical most have likely never heard of, glyphosate, other than as the weed killer Roundup. A white crystal that is odorless, it...
Nov 1, 2015


Cost of legislative franking
Should public schools require students to be vaccinated as a condition of attendance? Do you support legalizing marijuana? Should...
Oct 1, 2015


Municipal e-mail policies
One in six American workers say that e-mail is "very important" for doing their job, with about 78 percent of office workers in the...
Sep 1, 2015


Local tax free land
It has been said that nothing is certain in this world except death and taxes, but for some property owners in the Birmingham/Bloomfield...
Aug 1, 2015