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How would you caption this photo of actress Betty White meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House earlier this month? She was in Washington, D.C., to give a speech at the Smithsonian. E-mail your best ideas to captionthis@freepress.com by 2 p.m. Thursday. We'll publish the best captions online and in print Sunday.
The U.S. Supreme Court finally did what Michigan's spineless legislators and governors refused to do: outlaw the mandatory sentencing of juveniles to life in prison without parole.
In 2005 when their city drowned, the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune stayed in it longer than common sense and simple prudence would dictate. People who had lost homes, loved ones, and their city itself concentrated on gathering the news and putting it out. They finally left huddled in newspaper delivery trucks, water up to the headlights, decamping to Baton Rouge, 75 miles away, where they went right back to reporting the news....
Just think what $11 billion could do. OK, it would not make much of a dent in our $15.7-trillion national debt. Still, it's a sizable pile of money. Enough to build, say, four new bridges between Detroit and Windsor. But we will not have anything so concrete to show for this $11 billion.
This photo of Gov. Rick Snyder and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before ceremonies announcing plans for a new international bridge drew 113 caption suggestions. Our favorites follow. And please come back Wednesday for another opportunity to “Caption This.”
Jill Alper is a principal with a grassroots public affairs firm and an electoral strategist who formerly worked for Gov. Jennifer Granholm. John Truscott is president and principal of a political consulting firm and was formerly an aide to Gov. John Engler.
More than 94,000 veterans within a 600-mile radius of Detroit are unemployed. The Department of Veterans Affairs is hoping to change that with a free Veterans Hiring Fair at Cobo Center June 26-28.
The agreement between the governor of Michigan and Canada for the construction of a new bridge across the Detroit River violates the Michigan Constitution. Only the Michigan Legislature has the power to commit the state to the enormous regulatory, legal and financial consequences that would result from Michigan's ownership of a bridge over international waters.
There was always something hapless about Rodney King.
Thirty years ago this week in Highland Park, two men who were upset about the effects of the Japanese auto industry on U.S. factory jobs viciously beat Vincent Chin with a baseball bat. Chin, who died a few days later, was Chinese American. But he was killed because his attackers thought he was Japanese.
For more than a generation, the City of Detroit has struggled to implement funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on a timely basis while adhering to a myriad of federally required procedures and policies. Deadlines had been missed, regulations had been violated, and the city had overcommitted funds by millions of dollars.
With many of us planning to spend ample time on the roads this summer, we take for granted that while we may hit some traffic along the way, our roads and bridges will get us where we need to go and keep us safe.
Today, I'm scheduled to visit the Covenant Community Care health center here in Detroit to announce nearly $129 million in additional grants that will bring primary care to underserved communities across America....
How would you caption this photo of Gov. Rick Snyder, left, gesturing toward downtown Detroit from across the Detroit River with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week? They met before ceremonies announcing plans for a new international bridge. E-mail your best ideas to captionthis@freepress. Thursday. We'll publish the best captions online and in print Sunday....
Wednesday will be the first official day of summer, but not the first day of scorching temperatures. The forecast for Tuesday, the last day of spring, called for a high of 97 degrees, which would break a record set 48 years ago.
The other day a headline caught my eye: "Capitol Conundrum: Fewer Inmates, Same High Costs." That is a problem Michigan has struggled with for years. What to do about the high cost of prisons in Michigan?
Any implication that developing Michigan's clean energy resources would be economically inefficient is plainly wrong.
This photo of President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush talking at the ceremony to unveil the official portrait of President Bush drew 141 entries, many captioning “He did it!” or “It’s his fault!” Our favorites follow. And please come back Wednesday for another opportunity to “Caption This.”
Detroit's city charter, just like any constitutional outline, is a living document designed to adapt and evolve over time. This month, the city's law department was either compelled to do something it didn't want to do or attempted a coup d'état. Provisions in the charter designed to protect the city against a criminal mayor resulted in rogue legal representation. We may have to amend the charter, but we definitely have to get a grip....
For the past three decades, Detroit has managed to ignore one fiscal crisis after another, never fully grappling with its population loss, diminished automotive-based employment, imploding tax base and the implication of rising global challenges to Michigan's share of total market output and consumption.
Michigan's economy was hit hard by the economic recession. Our auto industry was moving to bankruptcy, foreclosure rates were through the roof, and Michigan families struggled to make ends meet. Recently we have come a long way — our unemployment is down, the auto industry is making profits again, and sales are entering their second straight year of growth. New industries are starting to look to Michigan as a new home....
As we are to look to Michigan’s future, we must have projects that will result in positive economic impact and create well-paying jobs. This is why I support the New International Trade Crossing (NITC).
In the winter of 2008-09 I was introduced to "spice" -- a synthetic cannabinoid that is 100 times stronger than marijuana -- in my work as a therapist at Milford Counseling, a licensed outpatient therapy clinic. I was treating a 19-year-old man for an advanced case of addiction. He had been in legal trouble and was ordered to remain sober.
By late June, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on multiple legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act. The end result could be all or parts of the law being struck down.
Planned Parenthood has one wish this political season. We wish that Michigan legislators would attack Michigan's lagging economy and stop attacking the right of women to have access to safe abortion care.
As a public servant charged with the fundamental responsibility of keeping the public safe, I am honored to sponsor one of three bills (HB 5711-5713) under consideration in the Michigan Legislature to bring long overdue reforms to the abortion process. These are commonsense provisions that provide important protections to women considering an abortion.
How would you caption this photo of President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush talking at the White House during ceremonies unveiling the official portrait of President Bush? E-mail your best ideas to captionthis@freepress.com by 2 p.m. Thursday. We'll publish the best captions online and in print Sunday.
Some people see Jesus in the splotches on their wall. Others see him in the faces of the downtrodden.
This photo of participants at Star Wars night at Comerica Park before a Tigers game last weekend drew 141 responses. Our favorites follow. And please come back Wednesday for another opportunity to “Caption This.”
Jill Alper is a principal with a grassroots public affairs firm and an electoral strategist who formerly worked for Gov. Jennifer Granholm. John Truscott is president and principal of a political consulting firm and was formerly an aide to Gov. John Engler.
There are things the law cannot do. And if that seems a self-evident observation, well, you may want to think again in light of the latest legal initiative out of New York City. It seems the mayor wants to ban the Big Gulp.
Although the federal budget and its impact on the economy have dominated this year's political debates, elected officials and candidates have largely focused on short-term concerns and what often sound like easy fixes.
For more than a decade, I have fought to protect men and women behind bars from sexual abuse. I believe that, no matter what the crime, no one deserves to be raped -- not even the man who raped me.
How would you caption this photo taken during a special event (Star Wars night) before a Tigers game at Comerica Park this past weekend? E-mail your best ideas to captionthis@freepress.com by 2 p.m. Thursday. We'll publish the best captions online and in print Sunday.
Bill Internicola had to show his papers.
This photo of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offering cookies to members of the news media on his chartered airplane drew 167 replies. Our favorites follow. And please come back Wednesday for another opportunity to “Caption This.”
Detroit has a lot of needs these days. It needs more police officers and firefighters. It needs a lower crime rate. It needs a balanced budget. But more than anything, it needs jobs. There is nothing wrong with Detroit that would not be solved by enough jobs for every man and woman who needs one.
It sounds relatively harmless. Synthetic marijuana. Like pot for people who don't want to get arrested.
Steve Blake of the Los Angeles Lakers missed what would have been the winning shot in a critical game. His wife got death threats. Singer John Legend's fiancee, Chrissy Teigen, criticized singer Chris Brown's performance on an awards show. She got death threats.
A celebration earlier this month in the Upper Peninsula was barely heard south of the Mackinac Bridge.
A task force in Michigan recently made sweeping recommendations to change the way the state's judges are picked, among them to eliminate your right to vote for judges and instead create an "advisory commission composed of lawyers and nonlawyers (that) could publicly evaluate and recommend appointees."
We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives. So what did Eugene J. Polley do? What was the nature of his great leap forward? Did he invent the PC? Did he invent the cell phone? Did he invent the Internet? No. Eugene J. Polley invented the wireless remote.
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