Jack Lessenberry

For many years, few people paid any attention to the politics of Michigan Supreme Court justices. Nor were elections for the state’s highest court usually exciting. That’s because there used to be a presumption that judges were more or less above politics

If this election follows the familiar pattern, Donald Trump will lose Oakland County, Michigan’s second-largest and easily most affluent county, and lose it badly. Oakland was once reliably Republican. But the party’s move to the right on social issues

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a President of the United States went stark raving mad? As in, thinking he or she was an eggplant? Actually, there IS a system to deal with that. As I understand it, all that would have to happen would be for

There’s general agreement that education in Michigan is an unholy mess that is getting worse. Test scores confirm it is failing hundreds of thousands of students, which has huge implications for our future and that of our state. We are spending billions

The Detroit News caused quite a stir this week when it endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for president. The newspaper, which was founded in 1873, has never endorsed anyone except a Republican for the nation’s highest office, though on three

Democrats are liberals, and Republicans conservatives, right? We usually talk and think about the major parties that way, as if they were two different flavors of ice cream. Republicans are red raspberry; Democrats, blueberry. Republicans want lower taxes

If Donald Trump is to be elected President, he almost certainly has to win either Michigan or Pennsylvania. If Trump carries every state Mitt Romney won and adds Ohio, Florida and Iowa, he still loses – unless he can take Michigan or Pennsylvania away

Macomb County resident Julie Baumer volunteered to care for her sister’s unwanted baby thirteen years ago. She was a 27-year-old mortgage broker who was engaged to be married and had a full life, but she didn’t want the little boy to be put up for

As everyone knows, the first presidential debate since the primaries is tonight, the first head-to-head clash between the two least popular presidential nominees ever.

How’s this idea: In an effort to please an old-fashioned, shrinking industry, we outlaw efforts to sell a new product in an innovative way? Instead, we’ll make anyone who wants this product drive to Chicago or Cleveland to buy it. That ought to help