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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
As those of us who follow civic meetings know, often community gadflies stick together. So perhaps it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that...


MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO NOWHERE:
A budget proposal by the Trump administration may be the final blow to plans for a regional mass transit system for southeast Michigan. A...


YOU KEEP ME RUNNING
It’s been six whole months since he was elected to his first position in office, and Bloomfield Township Trustee Michael Schostak must...


LONG DAY’S NIGHT
She grew up in both Rochester Hills and Birmingham, graduated from Seaholm High School, and campaigned for both Hillary and Obama,...


EYES WIDE OPEN
Rep. David Trott (R-Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, part of Rochester Hills), infamous of late for skirting local town halls, and when he...


RISE UP
It seems U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop (R-Rochester, Rochester Hills) of the 8th District doesn’t want his fellow congressman, David Trott, to...


TAX DEBATE
Rep. Mike McCready (R-Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield Township, West Bloomfield), along with 11 other moderate Republican...


BIGOTRY 101
Who could have imagined that in 2017 anti-semitism would once again be rearing its ugly head. Sadly, some local Republicans confirm the...


POINTED ARROWS
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – or the “D-Triple C,” in political parlance – has circulated a letter alleging that...


THE UN-AMERICANS
A hot mike only added to the troubles Rep. David Trott (R-Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills) found himself in when he finally held a town hall...


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