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The venerable, Rockford-based company famous for Hush Puppies faces plummeting stocks and sales. It’s already spent tens of millions of dollars settling suits for PFAS contamination. Then this year, more PFAS was discovered on its doorstop.
A month after a report on the deadly Oxford H.S. shooting, Michigan’s State Board of Education dismissed a proposal calling for stricter safety training requirements.
A private investigator who worked with Matthew DePerno and Stefanie Lambert helped prosecutors build the case against them, according to new revelations from the tabulator tampering probe now headed toward trial.
The salon deleted posts told those who don’t identity as male or female to take business elsewhere. State officials say the law is clear — threatening to deny service is illegal, not free speech.
Efforts to ban certain children’s books may be well meaning, but they infringe on my First Amendment right to choose what my child reads. I want my child to know different perspectives, not be shielded from the world.
We need vibrant, densely populated cities to attract young talent and more students completing four-year degrees to build our economy. Low-wage jobs won’t get us there. If we can attract talented people, capital will follow.