• There has been a patch of orange cosmos at 4th and Wilson in Royal Oak for the last seven or eight years. It’s nothing huge, just an extension to the larger bed in the boulevard, near the happy-hand-stand soldier statue.…

  • The big bet says that minority rule will eliminate the will of the people from consideration before the people can salvage democracy. In other words, you totally won’t matter anymore. Then, the very idea of resistance can be squashed. No…

  • America’s torrid affair with autocracy produces strange bedfellows. Here’s a contrast of two distinct groups I sat with this past week. Neither has significant appreciation of the other. And neither would accept that they are enabling autocracy. These two groups…

  • Coming of Age in Prison was the topic of interest at the Birmingham Next last evening (11/18/21).  Wendi Johnson, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Oakland University, gave the audience a preview of her new research on this important topic.  Ms. Johnson…

  • Naturally, you try to improve your livelihood. I try to improve mine for myself,  and to be better with the people I mentor.  The dynamic women I mention below are influences that can help anybody. Your livelihood sustains you and…