Author: Chad Selweski

Joining the gadflies that routinely attend Shelby Township board meetings, a group showed up on Tuesday that wanted to talk about the latest right-wing conspiracy theories related to so-called “smart meters.” Smart meters are...

State Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer may be known as Lansing’s most attractive lawmaker, but she certainly doesn’t let beauty get in the way of bluntly battering Gov. Snyder and the Republicans. Snyder has been in...

Kudos to the Gratiot Avenue Business Association, which has established a positive and energetic presence in Macomb County less than two years after being formed. GABA created the Let’s Move Festival of Races which is shaping up...

David Brooks at The New York Times continues to serve as the premier pragmatist in the nation’s political discourse. A case in point was his column this week on differing ways to cut budgets – the good, the bad, and the ugly....

If you missed Tom Friedman’s column last week about the fragility of the Middle East, it’s definitely worth a read. Friedman covers one of his favorite subjects — the lack of modernity in the Arab world. He...