Writing as the outgoing editor — my title of the last six years — I see a paper that still connects with that original journalistic-cultural DNA, still connects with that sense of the city as a place of promise and peril.
And I've been reminded time after time in my recent transition weeks of how the community connects to the paper and its roots. When folks with a new multimillion-dollar arts program pushed to have it in the pages of MT, because our audience was the one the program needed.
When a musician thanked me for supporting his band and putting them on the cover — and all I could think of was that without a creative community, there'd be not much need for a paper at all. When last week's cover story weighed in on the right-wing blitzkrieg in Lansing.
