Opinion
05/07/12
Successful business leaders know it: To succeed, the leader must create the vision the entire enterprise believes and can get behind.
04/30/12
"Official" Detroit is so down-and-out that its imagination can falter. Clearly understandable when the state has stepped in to help the city reorder its financial house.
04/23/12
The push to get a regional tax to support the Detroit Institute of Arts on the Aug. 7 ballot encountered early opposition from anti-tax forces in Macomb County.
04/16/12
A small part of the city of Detroit's plan for return to fiscal health is an increase in the tax on C-corporations from 1 percent to 2 percent -- a very small part.
04/08/12
If Detroiters are looking for their own "profile in courage" awards, we nominate the five Detroit City Council members who endorsed what amounts to a consent agreement with the state: Gary Brown, Ken Cockrel Jr., Saunteel Jenkins, Charles Pugh and James Tate.
04/01/12
Michiganians were offered a lesson in the power of influence last month. Some influential names in business and politics helped propel legislation through Lansing to help protect developers of failed projects from being sued for personal assets.
03/26/12
Who will be Detroit's emergency manager? As events played out last week, it was clear it's no longer an "if" but a "when." The political game is over. Enough is enough.
03/18/12
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing sounded more like someone thinking about his poll numbers than a steady-handed leader last week in his sometimes petulant responses to a proposed consent agreement to rehabilitate city finances.
03/18/12
Editor:
03/11/12
The economies of Michigan and the U.S. are getting a boost from the "onshoring" of manufacturing operations.
02/26/12
Gov. Rick Snyder may not want this on his desk -- let alone on his plate -- but business managers and owners in Southeast Michigan overwhelmingly support making Michigan a "right to work" state.
02/19/12
With two former aides indicted and federal corruption investigations continuing, embattled Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano is adamant he will not resign.
02/12/12
Six hospitals and nearly 1,000 hospital beds are within a 22-minute drive of Independence Township. A little over half of those beds are empty.
02/05/12
As Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and city unions continued negotiations, we noticed a recent news report: "Greek politicians and media have reacted angrily in recent days to Germany's pressure, viewing it as a humiliating curb on national sovereignty."
01/29/12
Talk about Crazy Bread. Detroit Tigers fans are still basking in excitement over the promise that slugger Prince Fielder is coming to town under a nine-year, $214 million contract.
01/24/12
Gov. Rick Snyder has shied away from national politics and issues, but he made it clear last week in remarks in Detroit that he wants business support for initiatives he believes are crucial for Michigan's success.
01/15/12
Detroit has been in the national news a lot for decades, but it's only been recently that at least some of the coverage has been good -- or at least fair -- pointing the way to a new brand for a "New Detroit."
01/08/12
The cash crisis in Detroit is fixed, so no emergency manager needed here -- or so said Mayor Dave Bing last week in a meeting with reporters followed by a meeting with City Council.
01/01/12
"Shared sacrifice" showed up last week on Lake Superior State University's annual tongue-in-cheek list of words and phrases "banished from the Queen's English for misuse, overuse and general uselessness."
12/18/11
Ho, ho, ho!
12/11/11
ALSO: Jump on Warrior bandwagon
12/04/11
Watching Detroit and Lansing's political give-and-take is like watching Kabuki theater -- stylized and somewhat bizarre. Gov. Snyder's announced intent to begin a state-ordered financial review of Detroit -- a formal step toward appointing an emergency manager -- did last week what few crises have done before: unite the mayor, City Council and public employee unions.
12/05/11
Detroit City Council is being urged to punish auto supplier American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. for cutting mostly unionized production jobs in Detroit while expanding manufacturing in Mexico. And, lest we forget, Three Rivers in Southwest Michigan.
11/20/11
Patients and employers who sponsor their employees' health plans may be puzzled by the war of words between Beaumont Health System and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
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Public safety must become high priority