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There’s a lot of speculation today as to what Governor Snyder will say when he makes his first State of the State speech tonight.Well, we’ll find out soon…

Tomorrow Governor Rick Snyder will deliver his first state of the state speech to a joint session of the legislature and a statewide television audience.…

Last week I talked to a woman in an accounting office about an issue involving an electronic tax payment.“I’ll take care of that Monday,” she told me."I…

The new legislature convened for the first time yesterday, nearly two weeks after their terms began. They posed for pictures and elected officers. They…

It’s sometimes easy to be cynical about what we used to call “the system” back in the days when bell-bottom jeans were common.Too often, it appears that…

Every culture and civilization has a set of myths which are sometimes partly true, but which are exaggerated out of proportion.For example, they say any…

Every time I turned on any radio station yesterday -- other than this one -- almost all I heard was discussion and speculation as to whether University of…

A former student sent me an e-mail a couple days ago that made me both happy for her and concerned about our state. She had been a “ninety-niner,” Beth…

Michigan begins the first work week of 2011 with a new governor in charge. He’s a man whose name most of us didn’t know a year ago, but whom we elected by…

I don’t know Jim Stamas personally. He is a state representative from Midland who will be the majority floor leader when the new legislature takes office…