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Public Trust Needs More Than Public Meetings
There is a particular kind of frustration I keep hearing in local conversations. People are trying to understand choices that affect their neighborhood, their safety, their taxes, their land, their school or their sense of home. Too often, they feel like they are piecing together the why after the fact, usually from a mix of…
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The Strange, Lovely Thing About Being Seen
I am going to say something that feels deeply Midwestern and wildly uncomfortable: I won an award. There. I said it. Specifically, I received the Excellence in Creative Expression Award from the English and College Readiness Department at Washtenaw Community College. Even typing that makes me want to add three disclaimers, two self-deprecating jokes and…
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Copy Editing Manifesto
Copy editing is some of the most important work in publishing, and some of the least glamorous. Nobody throws a parade because you caught the wrong date in paragraph seven or fixed a sentence that was one clause away from wandering into traffic. The work is quiet. It is easy to underestimate. And it matters…
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Welcome to Read, Write, Finch
Hi, I’m Heather Finch, and welcome to Read, Write, Finch. The name made sense for a few reasons: I love to read, I love to write, and Finch is conveniently already mine. I’m a journalist based in Washtenaw County in southeast Michigan, where I write about local news, community life and the people, places and…
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