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Opinion

Laura Berman

  1. Chess club helps Detroit kids find their way forward, one move at a time

    • By Laura Berman

    One of the little-known gems of the Detroit Institute of Arts is on display, but not on the walls.

  2. Aussie travels the world searching for Tucker cars

    On an extended drive-about from Australia, Brendan Edgerton parked his $150 right-hand drive 1989 Holden Commodore at the entrance to the Henry Ford Museum. He had come to see Tucker automobile #16, one of the world’s 47 existing Tuckers built by automotive dreamer Preston Tucker in 1948.

  3. Nation of Islam’s Farrakhan tells pastors: Unite to rescue Detroit

    Minister Louis Farrakhan filled the sanctuary — once a school auditorium — of New Destiny Baptist Fellowship on the west side, but barely so.

  4. Athlete Dave Bing knows clock has run out on his time as mayor

    Thank you for your service, Mayor Bing. This decision to step aside is not “a shocker,” as one headline claimed, but an expression of this mayor’s pragmatic self.

  5. Artist Mike Kelley’s house a sculpture for people and for the past

    In a striking reversal, a slice of Detroit suburbia from the 1950s has landed in Midtown.

  6. A push to elect women to office

    When Debbie Dingell toyed with running for the U.S. Senate last month, she called on EMILY's List to evaluate her chances and think through a potential candidacy.

  7. Equality for gay people would help state’s economy

    Michigan’s governor is on record that he’s “against discrimination.” But he has dodged whether he’ll stick up for gays and lesbians in Michigan, if pushed.

  8. Fired Detroit airport CEO Mullin looks to rebuild former fast-paced life

    As an executive who openly thrived on getting things done, Turkia Mullin lived a warp-speed life. Other executives saw her as dynamic, aggressive, smart, effective, outgoing. Then came the crash.

  9. A battle to right a wrong border

    Among Michigan’s famous boundary disputes — the bloodless war over the Toledo Strip, say, or long-lived tension over Eight Mile — Oakland University’s ZIP code controversy has stayed obscure.

  10. Detroit west-side neighborhood unites in stand against squatters

    On a west side block of bungalows and sturdy two-story homes, the Murray Hill Street block club is mustering pluck and fortitude.

  11. Student uses his Detroit life to fuel art that fulfills his dreams

    Aaron Robertson’s young life turned on a radio commercial and his grandmother.

  12. Debbie Dingell faces issue other Senate contenders may not

    Debbie Dingell could be a contender. But in the few weeks since her name surfaced as a top Democratic potential candidate for senator in a statewide poll, her “candidacy” appears to be a trial balloon floating to nowhere.

  13. EM Orr needs to consider more than efficiency as he changes city

    How much democracy can Detroit afford? That’s the big philosophical question I hope Kevyn Orr, the city’s nearly all-powerful ruler, considers as he surveys his new kingdom.

  14. Bill can right an anti-gay wrong

    Every public official in Michigan, including the governor, is against injustice and unfair treatment. “Any kind of discrimination is wrong,” is the way Gov. Rick Snyder recently described his position.

Metro Columnist

Laura Berman is a Detroit News columnist who writes about local, national and, occasionally, personal issues.

Laura has been a features writer, columnist, business and political reporter and magazine staff writer at the Detroit Free Press, and a contributor to many national magazines. Her journalism awards include a National Headliner Award for column writing. She has a degree in history from the University of Michigan.

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