OVERSEAS, OBAMA GIVES PEOPLE HOPENovember 15, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressSo how do you think Obama is doing?"The question came not once but many times during a trip this past week to ...Read More
Your Face in Lights in Times Square – Just Buy This T-ShirtNovember 8, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressWhen I was a kid, I went to Times Square and looked up at the billboards. They were massive. Biggest signs I ever ...Read More
NICE TO MEET YOU – BUT NOT YOUR GERMSNovember 1, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressThe news anchor shakes my hand. "So glad you could make it," he says.Then he turns, still talking, and presses the ...Read More
BANKERS DISLIKE PAY CUTS? JOIN THE CLUBOctober 25, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressIf a bank gives you a mortgage, it sets the rates, right? If a credit card company issues you a Visa, it tells you ...Read More
WHY DOES A BALLOON BOY FLOAT OUR BOATS?October 18, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressBack in 1949, a little girl in California fell down a well. As diggers tried to save her, a huge crowd gathered. ...Read More
BUSINESS, NOT POLITICS, COST RUSH HIS SHOTOctober 16, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressRush Limbaugh finally met something more conservative than himself: the NFL. That, more than any other reason, is ...Read More
FRUSTRATING END, BUT THEY HAD A CHANCEOctober 12, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, SportsFor a few moments Sunday, it was like the end of a movie, the David and Goliath kind. Here was the Lions' backup ...Read More
IF OBAMA CAN GET ONE, YOU CAN, TOOOctober 11, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressDid you get yours? I didn't get mine. Not yet, anyhow. My Nobel Peace Prize. I hope it's in the mail.I know it's ...Read More
YES, TIGERS LOST, BUT IS THERE A CULPRIT?October 8, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, SportsSomeone must be blamed. That's the way we look at sports. Someone, when our team loses, must be pointed to and ...Read More
CABRERA BROUGHT THE QUESTIONS ON HIMSELFOctober 6, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, SportsMiguel Cabrera, according to police, had an awful lot of alcohol in his system when he came home before sunrise ...Read More
ACE VERLANDER, TOO, SAVES THE DAY – FOR ANOTHER DAYOctober 5, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, SportsHe wanted to be the ace from the moment he arrived in Detroit. On Sunday afternoon, he got the hero's nod from his ...Read More
ERNIE’S WORDS STILL MAKE A NIGHT MAGICOctober 4, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free PressThe old man stood backstage behind the curtain. He was a little wobbly. "All set?" I whispered."Here we go," he ...Read More