By PHIL KEILMAN Guest Columnist I was fortunate enough to participate in the fourth annual Tight Lines for Troops on Saturday. It was a wonderful day honoring veterans. We had 60 boats with almost 300 vets out on Lake Michigan from Manistee, with a shotgun start at about 6:30 a.m. We returned to port at [...]
On May 4, I had the honor of delivering the commencement address to the Adrian College Class of 2013. This year’s 224 graduates are the latest in a long line from a school with a proud and distinguished history, a school founded by people fired by the search for knowledge and opposition to slavery. Education, [...]
CON: Effect on doctors will ease as new health law takes effect By DON KUSLER Guest Columnist WASHINGTON — Contrary to what you may have heard from its relentless critics, the Affordable Care Act will make more health care of higher quality available to more Americans than ever before. Claims that it will create a [...]
ROBERT MOFFIT: PRO: Doctors are fleeing a system that doesn’t value their worth By ROBERT E. MOFFIT Guest Columnist WASHINGTON — Among President Obama’s broken promises, there is this gem of June 15, 2009: “… no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: if you like your doctor, you will [...]
By REV. DR. BOBBY CABOT Pastor, Arcadia and Bear Lake United Methodist Churches The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes temptation as the act being tempted, especially to evil. We have talked about the devastating effects of giving in to the temptation of sexual sin, but we face myriad temptations. The Bible gives us good instruction on what [...]
There aren’t many events you can attend where you can scan an audience and see smiles, tears, pride and even a little end-of-era sadness on the faces of the people attending. Those are some of the things I get the opportunity to experience every time I cover a graduation event. One of the main reasons [...]
Profit motive at odds with desired prison outcomes Privatization works best in parts of government where the profit motive aligns closely with the need to provide a direct, definable service to constituents. Think garbage collection. Or some parts of public works or transportation. But where the success of government is measured more in social [...]
Is there something better than the Assad regime after military intervention? Can you hear it? Conservatives are beating their war drums and banging their tambourines, trying to gin up support for U.S. intervention in Syria. Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have been particularly vocal about their desire [...]
You see it in stores across our country and around the world: colorful and stylish clothing with happy-sounding brand names like Children’s Place, Papaya, Joe Fresh and Mango. But you don’t see the factories where these cheerful garments are made. Nor are we shown the strained faces of the impoverished workers who make them, paid [...]
Every effective leader had one. President Nixon had Bob Halderman. Governor Milliken had his Jerry Miller. Governor Blanchard relied on the whiz kid Bob Bowman. Governor Granholm had John Cherry, though most in town believe he was heavily under-utilized. Nonetheless these leaders had that somebody who could get in the clinches, toss around a couple [...]