Originally thought of as little more than a route clear of rover-slowing boulders, Neretva Vallis has provided a bounty of geologic options for the science team. After detouring through a dune field to avoid wheel-rattling boulders, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover reached its latest area of scientific interest on June 9. The route change not only shortened the...
Some of this work has already started in Grand Rapids as it relates to increasing overall access, advocating for on-site child care programs in places of employment through the MI-Tri Share program. Via MI Tri-Share, the expense of an employee’s child care is distributed equally among the employer, the employee, and the State of Michigan—a three-way...
It is hard to name a river. Who in fact has the right? Born millennia before us, the river is uncharted, its name inherited, its origins more mysterious than where it is headed. Black folks are—and have always been—heading towards an ever-deepening embodiment of freedom. North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green takes that end as her starting point in her new...