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Opinion | No mystery why Michigan professionals don’t go into education
Little pay and no respect aren’t good selling points for professionals who could teach college courses, exposing students to the real world.
Opinion | Gretchen Whitmer: Grow workforce by improving education
Prioritizing early childhood education will help turn Michigan around. It’s time to start, says the Democratic candidate for governor.
Opinion | Michigan has learned from Flint water crisis. But we must do more.
he director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights says the agency has taken steps to reduce bias that led to the public health crisis.
Michigan Sen. David Knezek: Social studies changes are ‘mind-numbing’
In dueling speeches, Knezek, a Democratic state senator, and Republican Sen. Patrick Colbeck duke it out over controversial changes to Michigan social studies standards.
Opinion | Make the companies that use the Soo Locks pay for a new one
The steel industry is the main beneficiary of a new lock proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder and President Donald Trump. So why isn’t that industry opening its wallet?
Michigan Sen. Patrick Colbeck: ‘There is a culture war going on’
The state senator and Republican gubernatorial candidate defends his work helping revise Michigan’s social studies standards.
Opinion | Demand that candidates explain their plan for Michigan schools
Don’t let politicians get away with generic statements about improving schools, says MSU professor Jack Smith.
Opinion | Michigan universities should be clean energy leaders.
Only 10 of Michigan’s 42 universities and colleges have specific goals to curb greenhouse gases. That needs to change.
Opinion | Michigan should revise lead and copper rule to improve public health
We will not solve the lead exposure problem in Michigan by only testing for lead paint and ignoring the ongoing threat of lead in our water.
Opinion | A librarian in every Michigan school? Lawmakers make the case
Almost as endangered today as the northern white rhino, school librarians may be making a comeback, if three legislators have their way.
Opinion | Take a breath: Michigan schools’ tests scores aren’t as bad as you think
You’ve read the doom-and-gloom stories. But they fail to point out how well many Michigan students are doing.
Opinion | Michigan reform bills will hurt teacher education programs
Mitchell Robinson understands the desire to try things to improve Michigan schools. But he believes a package of bills addressing teacher education do more harm than good.
Opinion | One way to pick Michigan politicians: See how they treat animals
Look beyond the campaign ads with the family pooch and ask how politicians will treat the four-legged friends around us.
Opinion | Dear candidate: Pay attention to those too young to vote
Michigan desperately needs investment in early childhood education. Voters should ask candidates where they stand on the issue.
Opinion | Need a reason to care about a Line 5 spill? Here’s 6 billion of them.
An uncontrolled spill lasting just two hours could cost Michigan at least $6 billion, say two Michigan State University researchers
Opinion | Puppy fight! Michigan legislator says he’s the one protecting pets
Rep. Hank Vaupel takes offense at a guest column accusing him of supporting puppy mills. He’s the one trying to close them down, says the former vet.
Opinion | 5 lessons Michigan cities can learn from the Twin Cities
Metro Minneapolis is one of the most liveable regions in the country. It didn’t happen overnight.
Opinion | Michigan’s largest universities must lead on renewable energy
Michigan State and particularly the University of Michigan trail leading Big Ten schools in their efforts to reduce the carbon footprint on campus
Opinion | Michigan may soon be forced to pay cities under Headlee
An appeals court is expected to soon decide whether the state is shorting Michigan local governments billions of dollars a year under the Headlee Amendment to the state constitution
Opinion | Calley: Schuette’s land deals reveal his hypocrisy on transparency
Bill Schuette, a candidate for governor, had claimed all his assets were in a blind trust. Then how to explain undisclosed, million-dollar properties that he sold in the Virgin Islands? An op-ed from his GOP opponent, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley.