As the public policy chairwoman of the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Branch of the American Association of University Women, a leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls, I have been acutely aware of the current attacks on Title IX. It is that awareness that inspires me to ...

In response to a recent notification by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services pertaining to individual’s receiving his/her SNAP benefit award amounts for February in January due to the government shutdown, individuals are asked to please budget those resources.   The ...

As one ages, that one’s body keeps an unending parade of medical surprises in store and reveals them at the content of the body and surely not the mind. That circumstance brought me to visit with my medical provider, a doctor in whom I have great satisfaction, but one who I do not often see ...

Parental alienation has reached epidemic proportions within the last 30 years. A recent episode of “Dateline” exposed how the mind of a child can be kidnapped by one parent in order to target the other parent. Upon the disturbing conclusion of the show, “Dateline” made information on ...

My husband is 83, in ill health and was adopted in infancy. In the past year, through Ancestry DNA, we have learned his parents’ names and learned he had five brothers. The one gift he has wanted more than anything is to know from who and where he came; my daughter and I are trying to give ...

I am usually pretty quick on the uptake, but I will admit this one took me a day or so to figure out. The parts finally came together with a report on making “The Apprentice” television show, which starred Donald Trump. I have seen in the near past that one secretary after another have ...