Opinion

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Baltimore Ravens cheerleader, Courtney Lenz, is not fat.  She’s adorable.  But she didn’t make the cut to cheer the Ravens on to their Big Game victory.  Was it because she gained 1.6 pounds?  Brenda and I tackled the issue in a recent WNEM TV5 Weekend Talk Back segment:  

With Flint claiming the title as America’s most violent city, Genesee County Sheriff Robert J. Pickell has proposed a new violent crime task force.  The joint task force would operate across jurisdictional boundaries and be highly mobile, tackling violent crime at its source.  But wher...

In his recent interview over Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino reminded me of the serial killer “interviewed” by Dirty Harry in the football stadium.  Same exaggerated facial features.  Same narcissism.  It’s uncanny: Either Tarantino believes that movie violence does not contribute to violence in real life, or he doesn’t care.  We don’t know which because he didn’...

Do you think the federal government is a bloated, byzantine mess?  Do you think our elected representatives react to passing events in knee jerk fashion, legislating, regulating, and signing executive orders that often do more harm than good.  Or...

Dan on the Street: Collecting signatures in downtown Flint to prevent the "chemical castration of deadbeat dads" provision from taking effect in 2013.  Really.  

Should Walmart be open on Thanksgiving?  That's the question we asked some shoppers at the Walmart on Belsay Road.  

I wondered how students at the University of Michigan Flint felt about the re-election of President Obama.  So we parked a camera in front of the Pavilion and asked them.

This past Sunday on TV5’s Weekend Talk Back segment, I suggested that Republicans should give the President whatever he wants.  Don’t try to block votes, don’t add controversial amendments, and don’t whip party members to oppose his program.  The President closed the s...

We in the United States consume a lot of energy.  It’s no wonder some of our richest companies are energy producers.  So why do we have to encourage the production of energy through legislation? I ask this with a view to Michigan’s ballot proposal 3 (reproduced below).  The answer is that ...