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Just last year, when I brought up the Common Core to my non-educator friends, I would usually see a furrowed brow and a tilted head.They’d never heard of…

Lots of people look forward to high school reunions, others dread them, and still others just avoid them altogether.My brother falls squarely into the…

Sometimes I think Detroit should adopt a new motto, something like: “Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it."This time, the focus is…

This week marks an important anniversary that is being virtually ignored. We paid attention five years ago, and will again five years from now. We prefer…

Many years ago, I sat next to the daughter of a famous geneticist on a train from Washington to Philadelphia. For some reason, we started talking about…

Fasten your seat belts. We are in for another three and a half months in which President Obama and his surrogates will try to make us believe that Mitt…

Four years ago, Dr. Syed Taj, then chief of medicine at Dearborn’s Oakwood Hospital, decided to run for Canton Township trustee. His friends tried to talk…

I have been a member of the Detroit Institute of Arts for many years, and I have to confess that I don’t go nearly often enough. A couple times a year,…

“NPR Conservative.” To some, that term might sound like an oxymoron straight from the writing staff of The Colbert Report.It happens to be me.For just…

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing couldn't have enjoyed reading his city's newspapers when he woke up on Mackinac Island yesterday morning. The Detroit Free Press…