Tag: Guest Commentary
Opinion | Mental health is health: Make annual screenings standard for Michigan Kâ12
Michigan should establish annual behavioral health assessments for every K-12 student, just as we require annual physical health evaluations….
Opinion | Stewardship over spotlight: Rethinking leadership in a time of turnover
Universities, and many businesses, are not built in a single administration. They are shaped across a continuum of leadership, each generation inheriting both the strengths and unfinished work of those who came before, while responding to a rapidly changing world….
Opinion | Michigan mothers jailed for surviving abuse deserve to have cases reviewed
When those women are incarcerated, families fracture, children lose stability and communities absorb the long-term consequences.There is a better approach: allowing courts to review sentences in cases where abuse, coercion or trafficking were never fully considered….
Opinion | We can prevent an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac
The pattern is brutally clear: when anchors and pipelines meet, the pipeline loses â and the water pays the price. The public health, economic and ecological consequences of a Line 5 failure would be profound….
Opinion | I watched kratom steal my sister. Michigan has to stop this now
A bill in the Michigan House would ban the growth and sale of kratom and its synthetic derivatives in Michigan. It is a straightforward response to a documented public health crisis, and it needs to pass….