Michigan Radio’s Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry has been thinking about the recent decision by The State Officers Compensation Commission to cut legislative pay by ten percent. Hear Audio Story    There is something to be said for a spirit of shared sacrifice during hard times...

As commercial vacancies increase, cities are feeling the pain of lower tax revenues. read more...

Just like the color of Micheal Jackson’s skin … American Idol is slowly fading. Tonight was “supposedly” Michael Jackson night … but after hearing Idol’s “Baker’s Dozen” perform tonight, I only heard a few songs that was remotely similar to a Mic...

Michigan reduces the plumbing related section of the lockerroom to its basic essences:  “go”-ing and not inviting ass frolicking in the shower.  We know it’s a form of team building, but when we say the Michigan way will be pounded into you, homoerotic Lever 2000 fantasies are no...

Grand Rapids area Representative Dave Agema has launched a new effort to increase penalties for disrupting a church service in response to a protest last year by a gay activist group that targeted an church in Lansing known for its involvement in anti-gay politics. According to The Grand Rapids Pres...

That’s the startling word from a feature article released today by the Associated Press. Most of the homes currently on the auction block in Detroit, Mich., can not be had for a single George Washington; however, the fact that bids are starting out so low in some cases underscores the current ...

Why Mothers Kill - A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook 61% of all child abuse is committed by biological mothers.25% of all child abuse is committed by biological fathers. (Statistical Source: Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse) Mother Kills Newborn by Microwaving Mother Attempts to Flush ...

A few weeks ago I spent a better part of an hour dumping out about $500 worth of alcohol down my drain.  Most people would think I’m nuts, but I had to do it. It was time to face the cold hard facts - I’m getting old, my health is in the toilet.  Let me tell you a story about The Girl ...

I still think of Michigan’s constitution as our “new constitution.� I suppose this is because I was still in elementary school when it was written and adopted, and there was a lot of hoopla surrounding it. Teachers told us that we should be proud that our state finally had a progressive new co...

Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume. Data centers, central to the nation's cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipme...