Ted Odell News Today

Joan Bauer thought she was through with politics.

FRIDAY, Jan. 5 — With the candidate filing deadline for the Lansing Charter Revision Commission just 18 days off, only seven people have done so.

A toast to some of the most bracing salvos, essays, criticism, and fiction we published over this strange and surreal year.

The late enigmatic bakers recipe was the best kept secret in town in the 70s and 80s.

It starts out as a story about a hunt for a cookie recipe, but Dave Denison's piece in the Baffler ends up being more about the Thoreau-esque baker who appears to have taken...

The recipe of the famed Guerrilla Cookie may be lost forever. But the legacy of its idealistic and eccentric creator lives on in unlikely ways.

Helping people put "good fire" on the ground is a key tool in addressing California's wildfire problem in the face of climate change and drought. UC Davis researchers, state agencies and community members are helping landowners learn how to conduct prescribed burns safely on their properties and monitor their benefits.prescribed burn, landowners, property owners, burning your own land, wildfire, climate adaptation, California, forests, prescribed burn monitoring, prescribed fire, ...

In the summer of 1994, Lynne Friend, a 35-year-old divorced hospital administrator, was about to embark on a fresh start. She and her 5-year-old son, Christian, were moving from southeastern Florida to Tennessee, where she and her fiancé, Ed O’Dell, planned to marry. Those plans never came to be. At the end of August 1994, just days before she was set to leave Hallandale Beach, about 15 miles from Miami, Lynne vanished without a trace. Increasingly desperate phone messages from loved one...