Heather Alberda found her calling by speaking bluntly about sex in conservative Ottawa County. Her career was no match for the nation’s culture wars.
Author: Greg Jaffe
A barista fought to unionize her Starbucks. Now she’s out of a job.
Lexi Rizzo’s Starbucks bosses called her a “great employee,” but she was fired after leading the push to unionize her Buffalo store.
In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself
Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles.
Prison or mercy? A Jan. 6 rioter weighs his sins and confronts his fate.
Eight years before he stormed the Capitol, Jake Peart acted with ‘unfathomable’ grace towards a woman who had killed his sister. A judge must decide if it matters.
In a county rife with conspiracy, a GOP clerk fights to win voters’ trust
Justin Roebuck sought to rebuild faith in the election system with a public forum. At the same time, the Ottawa County Patriots were raising new doubts.
Doug Mastriano warned of left-wing ‘Hiterlerian Putsch’ in 2001 paper
Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin with the dismantling of the U.S. military and en…