Bruce Walker

Midland

Writer at Freelance

Midwest Regional Editor at The Center Square

Columnist at The Morning Sun

Freelance writer on culture, pop culture and public policy.

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Articles

Column: Signs our albatross republic is dying

2 weeks ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

“Is this a Russian conspiracy? No, it’s just idiocy/Is this a Chinese burn/I gotta dinosaur for a representative/It’s got a small brain and refuses to learn.”The above epigraph, from Graham Parker’s defiantly bitter song “Mercury Poisoning,” is also true for Michigan’s 35th District residents. The Saginaw Bay region hasn’t had Michigan Senate representation since January 3 because Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hasn’t called for a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by Kristen McDonald Rivet.
Column: Breathlessly perpetuating misinformation

3 weeks ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

When you’ve lost Bill Maher and Jonathan Turley … maybe it’s finally time to fold the tent of public broadcasting at taxpayers’ expense. Once upon a time, squandering bricks of public money to support a cultural and educational bulwark for those growing up in the hinterlands might’ve made sense.
Column: Learning to ‘sit still’

4 weeks ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Letters to the Editor: Cutting the Institute of Library and Museum Services impacts everyone
Column: The importance of proofreading, Part II

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

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Column: In praise of proofreaders

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

I have amassed nearly 50 years of professional published experience, and sometimes I still get it wrong. By wrong, I don’t mean misrepresenting or misinterpreting facts or taking the wrong side of an argument. However, I admit that someday, someone might possibly and convincingly argue the contrary. What I’m referring to is that occasionally, a typo or syntactical error might be missed before hitting the “send” button.
Column: EV subsidies a boondoggle for Michigan taxpayers

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Let’s begin this week by apologizing for overpromising and underdelivering on last week’s promise to list all the subsidies for electric vehicles and battery manufacturers that have gone belly up over the past year.
Column: Short-circuit on electric avenue

1 month ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

With apologies to Paul Simon, counting the electric cars on the New Jersey Turnpike is easy because EVs on the nation’s highways and byways are few and far between. An article in this fish wrap by Peter Sinclair argues differently.
Column: Blessed are the cheesemakers

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Letters to the Editor: A response to Walker’s column on Biblical quote
Column: Sinclair playing a marathon shell game with the total truth

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

Readers might recall the petroleum company at the center of the infamous Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s that effectively employed a cartoon dinosaur as its mascot. It’s amusing that a writer surnamed Sinclair would get his nose out of joint over his ideological opponents purportedly accepting oil industry money to promote fossil fuel technologies. Whether Peter Sinclair, the guest writer in last week’s fish wrap, is affiliated with Sinclair Oil is unknown.
Column: Killjoy opponents of free speech

2 months ago | themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker

The father of an old, estranged fiancé of mine once asked me why I raised our daughters Catholic. The implication was that religious faith seemingly clashed with my long-haired, hippy façade and literary bent and that well-educated college boys should be smart enough to avoid worshiping any Sky God. I glibly responded that I wanted the girls to understand the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins without me having to explain it to them.