|
|
|
Updated: November/01/2009
No 'cover up' of ACORN on the agenda
Several weeks ago, I wrote about The Blade's coverage of ACORN, the controversial social welfare organization. (The name is actually an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.) I noted that The Blade has run a number of wire stories about the alleged ACORN scandals in recent months.
|
Updated: October/30/2009
Michigan Senate aims to ignore people on stem-cell research
A year ago, the most intense campaign in Michigan was not the race for the presidency but the battle over whether to change the state constitution to allow research using stem cells taken from human embryos created in fertility clinics.
|
Updated: October/23/2009
Michigan governor balks at her responsibility
LANSING - Here's one small example of how badly the system of government is broken in Michigan. For weeks, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been vigorously complaining about budget cuts to the schools. Then, this week, she shocked everyone.
|
Updated: October/16/2009
Jack Kevorkian's legacy was mostly unintended
They are filming a few scenes in Michigan this week for the soon-to-be-shown HBO movie, You Don't Know Jack, about the apostle of assisted suicide, Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
|
Updated: October/11/2009
ACORN vanished from Toledo before '08 vote
Even editors and ombudsmen don’t always get everything right the first time. In my last column, three weeks ago, I discussed The Blade’s coverage of the national controversy surrounding ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
|
Updated: October/09/2009
Michigan lawmakers need courage, political will
Every economist agrees that Michigan badly needs a better-educated work force. Yet if the Legislature's actions in this year's budget battles are any indication, Lansing seems determined to not only fail to solve that problem, but to make it worse.
|
Updated: September/25/2009
Legislature breaks promise to Michigan's students
LANSING - Michigan made a promise to high school students a few years ago. Work hard, do well in school, and the state would provide you with a $4,000 "Michigan Promise Grant" to help with college tuition. This week, the legislature broke that promise.
|
Updated: September/20/2009
No, The Blade is not covering up for Obama
Americans have been fighting about politics since before we won our independence. Lately, however, there has been a degree of bizarre nastiness out there unlike any I've ever seen. Far too many critics of President Obama seem to think that he is not misguided but evil, and I am deluged with calls and e-mails attacking The Blade for not sharing in this belief:
|
Updated: September/18/2009
War's path leads him to direct Holocaust center
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - Guy Stern, who has been known to generations of students as a warm, witty, and somewhat elfin German professor, started a new career this winter, one he never expected.
|
Updated: August/30/2009
Errors on flu vaccine bring quick response from reader
Sometimes, everyone, even the best reporter and editor, has an off day. Brian Harrington, a clinical professor of public health at the University of Toledo, was strongly irritated by a story The Blade ran on Aug. 7, 2009, about the swine influenza A H1N1 vaccine.
|
Updated: August/21/2009
Freshman lawmaker takes on billionaire Goliath
You might call it the case of Rashida vs. Goliath. She is the daughter of Palestinian refugees, a 33-year-old Detroiter who is the eldest of 14 kids. Rashida Tlaib's father came here because he got a job working on the line for the Ford Motor Co.
|
Updated: August/09/2009
'Birther' message isn't news
The caller was anonymous. "Why doesn't your biased Democrat paper look into the fact that [President] Obama wasn't even born in the United States? There is no proof he was born here," she said, slamming the phone down.
|
Updated: July/31/2009
As bad as it is, it could get worse in Michigan
Anyone glancing at most daily newspapers in Michigan would conclude that the state's biggest stories were the plight of the auto companies and a local election or two.
|
Updated: July/10/2009
Maybe McNamara should have stayed at Ford
ANN ARBOR — There are still a few old-timers who remember him strolling across the University of Michigan campus on weekends with his wife; going to Drake’s Sandwich Shop for a Big M Burger, getting misty-eyed over Yeats’ poetry at higher-level faculty parties.
|
Updated: June/12/2009
Watch GM's new top man, and that cute Cozy Coupe
Want an indication of how volatile the automotive world is these days? On Tuesday, the government-controlled board that now runs General Motors announced it had selected a new chairman for what was once the world's biggest corporation.
|
Updated: June/07/2009
Some complaints leave lasting impression
Most of the time, the questions and complaints people bring to me fall into one of three categories: A) They think the newspaper is being unfair, usually on ideological grounds; B) They think The Blade made a factual mistake, or C) They are having problems getting the paper delivered, or it lands in their bushes, etc.
|
Updated: June/05/2009
Michigan hasn't hit rock bottom - yet
LANSING, Mich. - Less than six months ago, Gov. Jennifer Granholm cut short a trip to the Middle East to fly to Washington to fervently argue that bankruptcy was not an option.
|
|
| More lessenberry, jack stories |
|
|
 |
|
Search
advertisement
