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Chris Reynolds will never forget his first day on campus at the University of Michigan. He and his dad had gotten up super early to drive the nine hours…

My colleague Steve Carmody reported yesterday on a new study looking at the social factors at play in Michigan's higher-than-average infant mortality…

Yesterday, I reported a story about a community meeting. The purpose of this meeting was to help parents and children in Grand Rapids avoid potentially…

THIS STORY WAS UPDATED ON 6/15/15If you’re tired of reading articles about how Michigan’s foster care system needs to improve, bear with me. This one has…

Teaching middle school students about what happened in Ferguson, or talking about choke holds and grand juries – that’s not part of Common Core, and it’s…

Journalists try to stay away from editorializing, but I'm going to break the rule here and say I'm 100 percent comfortable calling CBS's new poverty porn…

Think back to a time when you stayed up all night, or only slept for a few hours.Did you feel groggy or sluggish? Was it difficult to focus on the tasks…

Yesterday, the White House released its budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, and we got our first detailed look at how the President intends to pay…

Whitney Walker has had a lot of jobs in her life. But she was never content until she landed at her current gig as the office manager at the James and…

Here's the dilemma: You are one of the many American parents with a kid in day care. The kid gets a sniffle or a cold. The day care calls you to take them…