The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued an opinion affirming that the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has the authority to conduct inspections to ensure […]

Passing the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2024 is urgently needed to maintain the successful work helping restore and protect the Great Lakes – work that is benefiting the […]

Take a moment, first, to celebrate the fall of a regime of surpassing evil even by the Middle East's demanding standards. Father and son, the Assad regime oppressed and abused the Syrian people for 53 years, and now it's gone in a week. Even the American-backed puppet regime in Afghanistan didn't fall that fast. Read More(link is external)

A lot has happened since historian Timothy Snyder published his concise handbook, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The tiny book exploded in 2017. Today it's more relevant than ever. Among the lessons Snyder draws from our fraught history with authoritarianism, the most important is: Do not obey in advance. Read More(link is external)

This fall, a social worker in Yukon temporarily was stripped of her professional registration(link is external) in B.C. for endorsing conspiracy theories. While the case has raised awareness of Yukon's lack of regulation for social workers (a situation the territory is working to remedy), it did not appear to generate much – if any – angst over the line between political beliefs and professional practice. Read More(link is external)