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Nancy Kaffer

Nancy Kaffer

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They went to Yale with JD Vance. Now they mourn the friend they had.

Sofia Nelson, born in Wayland, Michigan, is a public defender in Detroit. But the Allegan County native was a first-year law student, out as trans,...

04.08.2024 8

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As the Flint water crisis turns 10, I remember how the government lied

By 2015, I had been a reporter for a decade and a half, but I had never been lied to like I was after the Flint water crisis story broke.   Most...

27.04.2024 60

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Michigan is a better place to live than Texas

I had lived in Michigan for about a week when I found myself paging through the March 1, 2000, edition of the Detroit Metro Times as I sat in my car...

06.04.2024 10

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It's a frog! It's a demon! Actually, it's a solar eclipse.

Eclipse watchers are preparing to gather on April 8 for a total eclipse of the sun, visible from a large swath of the Midwest and even the...

01.04.2024 60

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I think James Crumbley will walk free – because society blames mothers

James Crumbley is on trial for involuntary manslaughter in Michigan, charged after his son fatally shot and killed four of his classmates at Oxford...

14.03.2024 10

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Do 'uncommitted' Arab American voters spell a Trump victory?

If you believe that an American president has the blood of children who look like yours on his hands, how could you vote for him? Organized by Arab...

24.02.2024 20

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I think I know when the tide turned against Jennifer Crumbley

I think maybe the tide turned against Jennifer Crumbley on the witness stand, when she insisted there had been no sign that her son was mentally ill....

07.02.2024 60

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