The Oakland Post

Gov. Jennifer Granholm gave her last state of the state address Wednesday night live on television and in front of a friendly crowd of legislators and business leaders. Even her frugal Republican mom and dad who flew in for $20 from California were in the audience, which Granhom turned into a lesson: pinch pennies. Granholm proposed [...]

By COLLEEN J. MILLER Editor in Chief The tree lighting in Detroit’s Campus Martius park this Friday reportedly didn’t light up as planned. If you read this week’s editorial in The Oakland Post, you might think that the editorial board had something to do with that. No, of course we didn’t, but I couldn’t help but laugh [...]

BY Brad Slazinski Staff Reporter For the second year running, the Brooksie Way took place on October 4th. I decided to run it again, despite training very little in comparison to last year. I decided to do the race again because I’ve enjoyed running for a long time and it would be a quick way to get [...]

Friday’s Midnite Madnezz marked the official start of the 2009-10 basketball season. Hundreds of green glow sticks covered the O’Rena as the Grizz, and the cheer and dance teams, welcomed Oakland’s sports teams into center court. Each player on the men’s and women’s basketball teams were introduced one by one as they ran through the [...]

At the recent funeral visitation of a dear aunt, a television showed a slide-show montage of pictures of my aunt, her children and grandchildren and her many friends. Accompanied by a recording of some of her favorite songs, the images replayed across the screen and provided a small glimpse of her full life and courageous [...]