Drew Saunders

The relationship between police and citizens has been a nationwide hot topic issue for years now. For this article in Our Town, I was the only reporter working on a piece that simply provided a snapshot, assessing what the relationship is like in Lenawee County, Michigan.

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The court was packed as 20-year-old Ed Jermeal Thomas and Kaivon Kristopher Pratt of Detroit were led through separate doors of courtroom 9 of the Washtenaw County Trial Court in Ann Arbor, Tuesday. The Detroit men were charged with multiple felonies including armed robbery and the murder of EMU wide receiver Demarius Reed, a junior originally from Chicago majoring in communications.

A pretrial has been set for 1:30 p.m. June 3. The trial proper will start at 8 a.m. June 23. Motions by the atto

State legislatures across this country are still battling over voting rights in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Former president Donald Trump still insists that there was wide-spread voting irregularities and Michigan Republicans have responded by introducing changes to state voting laws. Democrats have universally responded by accusing the GOP of changing voting laws to make it harder for groups that generally vote for them, like racial minorities and city dwellers, to make it to th

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that since the pandemic began, 22,102,069 people have been infected by Covid-19, and about 371,084 have died, just in the United States. Globally, the World Health Organization reports that there have been 88,383,771 cases and 1,919,126 deaths, globally.

But the problem with mind numbing statistics like the finding that our planet is confirming nearly 800,000 new cases per day is that it is a very top-down approach, which either overwhelms

Ferndale, MI -It is often said that silence is compliance in the face of injustice. On Saturday, over a thousand people from all walks of life gathered in Ferndale to be anything but silent in the face of violence against people of color across the United States. The protest is part of an international movement sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day.

This march was organized by young adults from the Ferndale area. One of them was Ky