Infrastructure

Imagine bringing Abraham Lincoln back to life today. What do you suppose he would find most shocking about life in today’s America?Airplanes? Same-sex…

The Next IdeaIf the first Industrial Revolution was characterized by centralization of our water, energy, food and organizational infrastructures, then…

I have to confess I rolled my eyes when I heard yesterday that Governor Rick Snyder went to a Flint resident’s home and drank their filtered tap water in…

Imagine, in the wake of a big snowstorm, city sidewalks and streets that never get caked with snow and ice. No salt, no slopping your way through slush or…

A new commission would help decide how to spend $165 million Gov. Rick Snyder has proposed for infrastructure fixes in Michigan.On Thursday Snyder signed…

The NAACP is giving Gov. Rick Snyder 30 days to come up with a “timeline, deadline and price tag” for fixing Flint’s water crisis.After that, the national…

Correction for the audio interview: 48217 is the most polluted ZIP code in Michigan (as stated), but the Delray neighborhood is in the neighboring ZIP…

By now, everyone in the nation knows about Flint, the aging industrial city that was switched to water that turned out to be toxic, by an emergency…

The Next IdeaMark “Puck” Mykleby is a retired Marine colonel who worked from 2009 to 2011 as an assistant to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,…

Drivers can all agree: Potholes are a fact of life here in Michigan. But does it have to be that way?Jack Lessenberry’s recent opinion piece for Dome…