Editor's note: This post is part of a series by Dr. Baker on Our Values about core American values. This week Dr. Baker is discussing Christianity and politics in America. Greg Garrett’s Faithful Citizenship is the new book we’ve considered all week: how politics trumps faith, that God should come ...
Editor's note: This post is part of a series by Dr. Baker on Our Values about core American values. This week Dr. Baker is discussing Christianity and politics in America. What’s the story of America? There are many ways to tell it. In recent years, a polarization narrative has seized ...
Proclamations and invocations of faith are constant companions on the campaign trail, as we've heard throughout this political season. Politicians routinely appeal to scripture to support their policies, and sometimes to attack their opponents.
Michigan business leaders who are worried about the way the state has dis-invested in education offered a telling statistic this past week. Between 2002 and 2011, state funding for universities, when adjusted for inflation, fell by $4,000 per student while tuition rose by $3,500 per student.
Your time to run for office is now. Please answer this open call to public service. Democrats and Republicans have made a real mess in Lansing. In 2010, over 57 percent of eligible voters in Michigan did not cast a ballot. Every teacher, firefighter, trash collector and program manager who ...
This Mother’s Day, people throughout the world will pause to say “thank you” to the women in their life. As we approach this day of recognition for our mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and nieces, we should also take a moment to reflect upon the war being waged on ...
Just over 1,100 Ypsilanti voters had cast their ballots by 2:30 p.m. today in a special election to decide two tax issues, including the implementation of a city income tax.
As Michigan lawmakers grapple with how to create jobs and a positive business climate, new tax reforms shouldn’t stall the economic progress we’ve already made. A perfect example of this is the proposed personal property tax reform and its impact on Michigan’s wind industry. Wind energy projects are under way ...
For local governments across Michigan, budgets are looking a lot less grim than they were last year. Ann Arbor is a good example of that. City Council came into this year thinking it would have to cut another 14 positions from the police and fire departments. Instead, council members now ...
I write in response to the recent column by Stephen Ranzini (April 19, “Ann Arbor finally putting money into its neglected road, but executing plans that are flawed”). Regretfully, Mr. Ranzini relies upon tainted data, tired innuendo, and faulty reasoning to paint a grossly inaccurate picture of the facts and ...
Our economy must be given the opportunity to recover. Our business community and real estate market must be allowed to thrive. The proposed income tax and millage will impede Ypsilanti’s progress and should be rejected.
The citizens of Ypsilanti will soon decide whether or not to implement a city income tax, as well as a millage to finance the Water Street debt. Those opposed to these measures have loudly stated their opposition to any new taxes, but have offered no concrete solutions to the problems leading up to the current state of city finances. They have been invited to debate these issues in a public setting, but have declined to do so.
I read Tom Watkins’ opinion in Ann Arbor.com where he discussed the differences between women who have children and work outside of the home and those who have children and do not work outside the home.
The right of choice runs deep in America. And that includes women's right to choose. No, I am not weighing in on the age-old debate over "right to life" vs. "choice." I am adding my two cents worth on the ill-publicized comments from Democratic National strategist, Hilary Rosen, about Mitt ...
One of the intellectual benefits of aging is the ability to draw on experiences that had gone well or badly during our periods of growth, then to interpret our conclusions as universal truths. Such contrived insights are not a natural by-product of memories recorded and reexamined, but can effectively serve as a valuable guide for the future. And if judgments gained from those unsealed memories pass as wisdom, that may not be too far off the mark.
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