Metro Detroit employers felt the ground shift beneath them during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2021-2022. Precautionary measures intended to limit the spread of COVID-19 had the devastating unintended effect of slowing to a trickle the revenue streams of “in-person” businesses such as restaurants, concert venues and banquet halls.
Read MoreWith his 35 years in business, law, finance, and public affairs, Michael G. Sarafa has been named Counsel for Butzel. Helping clients navigate issues in the governmental sector as well as in the realm of outside counsel services, Michael has achieved an enviable reputation in legal and political circles in Michigan as a knowledgeable and trusted legal advisor.
Read MoreIt was day two in Iraq. We were still jet lagged. Several in our delegation were born in Iraq but had never been back. We stepped off the van and into a tiny village that appeared to be unchanged from a couple hundred years ago. While modernity and progress had passed it by, war and destruction did not. Maybe 250 families live here, we were told. It was the Christian village located in the Nineveh Plain just a short mile from Telkaif. For this group, it was our first opportunity to see what had become of our ancestral homeland. Emotions were raw.
Read MoreThe emotion was palpable. Fr. Pierre Konja looked up from his chair in the theater room of our basement and asked, “How are the parents doing?” He was there to meet and counsel a spontaneous gathering of MSU students on the Tuesday evening after the mass shooting on campus.
Read MoreIntegrity. It’s an old-fashioned concept; you sort of know it when you see it, or sometimes feel it. I’ve seen integrity. I’ve seen it in action, at Joe Yatoma’s Dash Diamonds in West Bloomfield. Diamond buyers in the know are drawn to Dash for its selection, its quality, its value, and its guarantee that each diamond selling for more than $1,000 is certified by the Gemological Institute of America—the jewelry industry’s authority on geological research and authenticity.
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