My colleague Henry Payne wrote today on outgoing University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman’s legacy as if Coleman were some sort of throwback to a time when people weren’t colorblind (Because everything’s all good now, of course). He comes thisclose to hitting on the most legitimate criticism of Coleman, which is that under her … Continue Reading →
Emily Doerr’s mugging near her Woodbridge home and Karen Dumas’ response to it has inspired the best conversation on public safety in Detroit that I’ve seen in quite a time. But the conversation has grown weedy and it’s important we refocus. If this is a chance to seriously talk about crime in Detroit, let’s not … Continue Reading →
At The Detroit News op-ed page we allow for debate more than you’ll see at a lot of opinion pages. You don’t have to agree with us and we don’t have to agree with you. You just have to argue your side to the best of your ability. Over the last two weeks we’ve run … Continue Reading →
In 2009, Barack Obama’s stimulus showered higher education with tens of billions of dollars in college aid and higher ed porkulus grants funding everything from plankton research to Arctic languages study. The explosion in Pell Grant spending alone – already one of the primary drivers of tuition inflation – by some 800,000 recipients transformed the program into … Continue Reading →