Posts published in “Guest Column”

  Every day, I wake up before the sun to care for my adult daughter and my grandson. I work all day cooking, cleaning, and providing personal care — and my work continues after the…

  Moving into a nursing home is a complex and heart-wrenching decision faced by millions of seniors and their families every year, including here in Michigan. Despite their best efforts, these families know their older…

  I recently traveled from Lansing to another important capital, Washington D.C., to discuss rail infrastructure with Michigan’s congressional delegation — namely the critical role railroads play in propelling our state economy and its continued…

  Poll workers are critical to maintaining the integrity of our elections — and we need people working the polls more than ever before. It can be easy to feel like a small cog in…

  We all remember those weeks of food scarcity as the pandemic began its terrible sweep across the nation in spring of 2020. Photos of empty grocery store shelves played across TV screens. The web…

  As a former senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity and as an activist who continues to tackle issues related to clean air in socially and economically…

I told my husband, Peter, when he first announced the idea, that I thought it was dumb. I probably didn’t say “dumb,” because I try to be nicer than that. But I let him know…

  There is an unnecessary pattern that keeps playing out in school districts across the state. I got to experience it — again — recently after a substitute teacher in Oakland County was accused of…

  Since 2000, opioid overdose deaths in our state have increased tenfold, cutting thousands of lives short and causing pain to the families and loved ones of the Michiganders we’ve lost across the state. As…