I would like to present a simple plan that will make anyone in the top income bracket an appallingly huge amount of money: Buy Detroit.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics
A mass, collective pardon of nonviolent offenders would reunite hundreds of thousands of families, save billions of dollars in incarceration costs, and might foster a national spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Scott Dodd | Posted 12.22.2009 | Chicago
Michigan is suing Illinois, the Chicago sanitation district and the U.S. government, seeking an injunction that closes two locks in the canal that connects the Illinois River and Lake Michigan.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.
Posted 12.16.2009 | Business
Officially, Detroit's unemployment rate is just under 30 percent. But the city's mayor and local leaders are suggesting a far more disturbing figure -...
AP | Posted 12.07.2009 | Home
FERNDALE, Mich. — He could be called the "Bad Breath Bandit." Police in a Detroit suburb are looking for a bank robber who tellers say has crook...
Huffington Post | Carlos Cagin | Posted 12.06.2009 | Business
Need a cheap home? Just call the FDIC. During the housing crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company took over thousands of failed banks' soure...
forbes.com | Reihan Salam, | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
Just as the roughly $3 trillion spent on the former East Germany didn't stave off economic collapse, federal bailouts won't bring back Detroit. As Mic...
AP | Travis Reed | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home
JUPITER, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday for a man police said opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner and killed f...
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
The news was very bad on Friday when state and Federal agencies admitted that tests show invasive Asian carp have evaded an electrical barrier intende...
The Plum Line | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not ...
Bil Browning | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The equality drumbeat has rumbled on with news that Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Texas will be attempting to re-examine their amendments banning same-sex marriage and civil unions.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Republicans have a well-oiled propaganda machine to facilitate the fantasy of strength and popularity. The message is always the same -- whether the GOP wins or loses, it always wins.
Chris Savage | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Schauer, who narrowly defeated the very conservative Tim Walberg in 2008, represents a swing district.
Reuters | Nick Carey | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
What's going on in Baraga [Michigan] and the rest of the Upper Peninsula [Michigan], or UP, mirrors the slow burn that the recession has made through ...
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state ...
AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he'd just robbed can sue the ...
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home
DETROIT — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a ...
Seattle Times | Melissa Allison | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
Costco Wholesale plans to accept food stamps at its warehouse stores nationwide, a major shift for a company that earlier this year said it doubted th...
Jeff Bocan | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
I want to offer a macro-level view of the larger opportunity I see in both Michigan and the Midwest, as a venture capitalist looking for small businesses that have a chance to become much, much bigger businesses.
Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Lisa Snyder thought she was just doing a good deed. Every weekday morning, Lisa has helped three nearby families by watching their children before the bus arrives to whisk the kids off to school...
Susan J. Demas | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
How does our state rebuild when a quarter or a third of our citizens don't receive the help they need from the state so they can get a job, see a doctor, stay in school, keep their homes or eat dinner tonight?
Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Following our slide show of the best places to go for autumn leaves, readers sent in their favorite photos of fall foliage. From Michigan to New Hamp...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under...
Gabrielle Reece | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
You don't have to agree with Kid Rock's politics, but it's good to learn how this single father of a sixteen year old boy juggles everything.
Toby Barlow | Posted 12.27.2009 | Business