Editorials & Opinions

Ita s shortly before 9 a.m. on a Saturday and the crowd is out the door at The Pancake Shop on Hot Springsa Central Avenue.

James Weldon Johnson composed the hymn "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" with his younger brother Rosamond.

An MLive user said it best in a comment on a Gazette story: Hasn't Michigan been through enough already? With one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, Asian Carp threats to our precious Lake Michigan, and now the modern-day devil, AKA oil , is inching its way closer to the great lake.

On the mind and in the air for Friday: And, yes, the assignment most days will be at Comerica Park for the next couple of months, but also on the docket will be Lions training camp.

I'm a little more conservative than most tech writers when it comes to hot trends that may not be hot nor be trends.

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Do you support an off-leash dog park in Kirkland? DISCLAIMER: This web poll is informal, not scientific.

David Cameron says he wants a new economic and cultural partnership with India .

Just last week, Democrats on the King County Council were adamant that voters needed to pay a higher sales tax to protect public safety .

The body grows old, but not the spirit "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw It is unfortunate, but true, that the vast majority of folks have forgotten how to play.

At some point in my life, I discovered by accident that I like poetry. I am not sure how it happened, but I ended up a fan of Walt Whitman, and not just because he was the first poet I ever read who wrote about baseball.

This time, the right-wing media juggernaut went too far too fast. Sleazy tactics similar to those employed by online provocateur Andrew Breitbart against former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod have been driving the national political conversation and intimidating the so-called mainstream media for the better part of a generation ...

For much of the past year, Gov. Ted Strickland has cast challenger John Kasich as a rich insider who is too close to Wall Street.

With not enough money to pay the bills for Pierce County programs and services, isn't it amazing that there's enough cash to send county bureaucrats scampering around the country to watch how golf tournaments are set up? http://kidkbim.s3.amazonaws.com/CFA2E04E84ECBD7509CC3E17CDE9A3C9.mp4 ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is facing an unprecedented crisis in the RCMP and must choose between his hand-picked civilian leader, William Elliott , and a group of high-ranking mutineers pushing for a new top Mountie, according to RCMP insiders and experts.

President Obama must address the growing rift with congressional Democrats soon, Julian E. Zelizer says.

Video: Dropping guard too quickly? Video: 'Model of responsibility'? Video: Life in the Gulf, three months later Regionally there's been further damage to Louisiana marshes already assaulted by decades of channel-cutting, shipping, water direction, erosion and sinkage.

Former Statistics Canada chief statistician, Munir Sheikh, waits for the start of the Commons Industry committee on the long form census on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, July 27, 2010.

Where it begins in Jackson County's Liberty Township, the river is anything but Grand.

Republicans love to tell us what to fear and who to blame in slogans that fit neatly on bumper stickers.