Ag Forum: TC-piloted 10 Cents a Meal is in peril

Ag Forum: TC-piloted 10 Cents a Meal is in peril

This article first published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle Ag Forum. A budget impasse in the Michigan Legislature means we are rapidly approaching a potential state government shutdown, and schools can’t properly plan their budgets for the year and take care of...

Riding the Rails to South Bend

Riding the Rails to South Bend

I recently attended the Midwest Rail Conference at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. While the conference itself was positively fascinating, today I’d like to focus on how I got there: By train. I’d been thinking about taking the train since I registered...

Who is going to pay for the ice storm?

Who is going to pay for the ice storm?

This op-ed first published in The Detroit News. . While we are nearing the end of the summer, some northern Michigan residents are still dealing with the impacts of an extreme weather event from the spring—the historic ice storm. We’re nearly five months past that...