There are ways to streamline and improve care for behavioral-health patients, but it won’t be inexpensive. But the way we’re doing it now isn’t cheap, either.
Guest Commentary
At Bridge, we believe in listening to voices from all over our state. Got something to say? Contact us and join the conversation (details below)
How to submit a Guest Commentary
What to know:
Bridge welcomes a diversity of voices and perspectives from readers on issues important to Michigan. Guest commentaries reflect the views of the author(s), and are independent of the nonpartisan, fact-driven reporting of Bridge’s newsroom staff.
Commentaries must be the author’s original work and preferably will not have appeared first in other publications. Bridge reserves the right to decline submissions at our discretion.
We reserve the right to edit commentary for grammar, clarity, brevity or to address legal or factual concerns. We may offer editing suggestions, but in the service of making your work more accessible, not to alter your views.
We do not pay for guest commentary.
Here are some guidelines:
- Columns are usually 500-700 words
- They generally focus on a Michigan topic or policy and should avoid ad hominem attacks
- The more direct, distinct and/or intimate your perspective, the more effective your column will be
- The best columns do more than identify problems; they also offer solutions and facts to back them up
- Please include a one- or two-sentence bio, including the writer’s organization or relevant background.
- Authors must show their work, by backing up facts with links to reports or studies
- Bridge does not publish self-promotional columns or candidate endorsements
- Send a good quality, large headshot of the writer(s) as an attachment
- We also ask that, in return for publishing a guest commentary, the author(s) and their organizations generously promote the link to the published column through your Facebook, Twitter and other social or professional networks.
That’s about it. Keep the writing clear, conversational and free of jargon, and sell our smart and receptive readership on the argument you are trying to make.
Who to contact:
Email your submission or idea to guestcommentary@bridgemi.com. Please briefly describe who you are and what you would like to say and put the words “guest commentary” in the email subject line.
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Welcome to school, Detroit kindergartners. Now pay up!
If something isn’t done to remove the crushing debt faced by city schools, Detroit’s most vulnerable students will be stuck with the bill.
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Twenty-six plus nine, plus how many more? Gun violence must be addressed
With every new rampage, we say the carnage has to stop. And yet, it goes on. Will we ever find the will to take the steps needed to finally curb it?
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Read the tea leaves: It’s time for marijuana legalization in Michigan
Want to fill some potholes? How about tax money from pot sales? Colorado has collected 91 million reasons to legalize just this fiscal year.
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Improving third-grade reading isn’t enough
Programs that help parents improve their early learning for their children, particularly children with developmental delays or disabilities, are critical.
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Repealing prevailing wage law will benefit Michigan school districts
School districts and other public construction projects should be free to hire contractors who pay less. It will save taxpayers' money.
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Is it time for Michigan higher education to consolidate?
Having 15 public universities to makes less sense in an age of shrinking resources. Health care provides a leaner operating model.
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Gov. Snyder gets it right on early childhood education
Investing money in programs to boost infants and young children will pay education and economic dividends for Michigan’s future.
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Retiring Superintendent: Michigan schools are broken, but teachers are heroes
Supt. Mike Flanagan says the state’s public schools are in a “continuous wash of confusing redirection,” and blames much of the problem on poverty and other social ills. Teachers, he said, get unfairly scapegoated when they should be honored.
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Prevailing wage doesn’t cost taxpayers, it protects them
There’s more to big construction projects than paying the lowest possible price for labor. Keeping wages at a prevailing union rate encourages innovation and cost controls throughout the industry.
