Brunch with Bridge

We are too big, too busy and too consumptive to trust an unfettered marketplace to protect vital resources like water. Ask any Toledoan.

Why do so many films made in the state shoot in the southern regions? People, equipment and inadequate promotion.

Growing older brings its share of sorrows, but also a renewed appreciation of friends old and new. So raise a glass; your time's not past.

Everybody loves a list. Are these a half dozen ways to make a better Michigan? Our contributor thinks so.

Where did you grow up? It may be a bubble, but it’s a Grover’s Corners, too, full of lives worthy of respect and attention.

It’s easy to get cynical about elections, but if some people didn’t bother to file and get out there with the handshakes, we wouldn’t have much of a system.

Beggars are unsightly and discomfiting, but we’re called to help them, not shove them out of sight and out of mind.

Three years of relaxed fireworks restrictions have sowed bad blood between neighbors, terrorized pets and set city leaders fuming. Is freedom worth it?

A national travel guide spills the beans on its top 10 travel guides, and guess which state made No. 1? A native makes some trip suggestions.

Why is it so hard for some parents to learn that a parked car is not a short-term daycare center?

So-called “dark money” is pouring into Michigan’s elections, effectively nationalizing the state’s most important contests.

Today, fireworks and patriotism are complicated things for many. Then, they were part and parcel of the best day of summer.

The Detroit Free Press spent thousands of words criticizing the Michigan charter-school community. Some of them were wrong.

No need to fret over who will carry the torch for Michigan’s capital city when its current boosters are exhausted. The farm team is already stepping up.

Ask people why they run and you’ll get a lot of answers. On this particular day, it was those beach cairns on Mackinac Island.

It’s patriotism season. A few thoughts on how this seemingly simple emotion is far more complex than we might think.

A Grand Rapids exhibit of 20th century design born in Michigan shows a way for the state to reclaim its mojo, via art married to commerce.

John Schneider’s column on student-loan debt touched a nerve with another Brunch columnist, and Aaron Foley has a few things he’d liked to get off his chest.

College affordability is a real problem, but perhaps the time to complain about it isn’t after you’ve returned from a semester abroad.

If the movement is going to get beyond bumper stickers and sound bites, why can’t it start in the palm of the Mitten?