On one hand, most people who tumble into poverty during a 10-year period are short-timers, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. By age, sex and race, they reflect the population as a whole. Two-thirds stay poor less than three years. No children Joanne Harper, for one...
Today the community champions its environment and natural gems with features like the Wacca Wache freshwater marina amid the cypress and oak trees along the Waccamaw River and the MarshWalk, a boardwalk through a wildlife-filled salt marsh. You may also like: 50 company logos, then and now #2...
Michigan Think you need an ocean for a beach? Think again. There are miles and miles of sandy lakefront beaches in Michigan (thanks to the four Great Lakes that border it). The west coast of Michigan has especially nice beaches—try a rental in Muskegon, Grand Haven or Saugatuck. You wo...
or maybe a halfway house with grease-stained walls. They were making fun of us the whole time and there was a threatening air about the place. Runner up would be the time we played a Quiznos in a student center in Michigan.
Reader scribe Andy Norman, now of Michigan State University, wrote about Once a Pawn in this week's issue of The Reader (online here) and name-checked me in the article where I described OAP's Catherine Balta as sounding like "a very young, angry Rebecca Gates of pioneering mid-’90s ...