Our favorite op-eds from readers in 2020 | Opinion
Updated Jan 04, 2021;
There were plenty of opinions in 2020. Should the president be impeached? Should we shut down the economy? How do we make Black lives matter? Should we replace a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the twilight of a president’s term? And we published hundreds of views on those issues and others. We’ve picked some of our favorites from a very tumultuous year. Just click the headline to read the entire piece.
“Don’t be afraid of Covid.”
Those are five of the most thoughtless, insensitive and painful words I have ever read in my life. How could you say such a thing when over 200,000 Americans have tragically lost their lives to this devastating and deadly virus? How many people are grieving the loss of a loved one like I am, only to have those five words reopen our wounds that we are still trying to heal from?
Michigan program seeks alternatives to youth incarceration
Associated Press
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Michigan (WDIV)
LANSING, Mich. – A program that seeks community-based alternatives to the practice of locking up youth offenders or placing them in rehabilitation facilities outside their homes has come to communities in Michigan.
The nonprofit Youth Advocate Programs is working with Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services on the effort in Saginaw, Mecosta, Osceola, Ogemaw, Roscommon, Isabella and Clare counties.
Funding from Ballmer Group to Youth Advocate Programs Inc., is helping with startup costs.
At any given time, there are 10 young people in the program, which serves up to 30 in a year, according to Soleil Campbell, juvenile justice policy and systems manager with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.