What Michigan Gov. Whitmer Needs Is An Anger Translator

Keith A. Owens
3 min readApr 10, 2021
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer/ Image Courtesy of CNBC

If you’ve lived long enough — and I have — then you probably know what it’s like to care about someone who doesn’t care about themselves. You keep trying to rescue them from the flames of their own self-destructive behavior, maybe feeling like some kind of hero, only to watch them pull away and jump headlong right back into the pit. But rather than let them catch fire, you figure it’s up to you…

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Keith A. Owens

Longtime Detroit-based journalist, musician and writer. Co-founder of Detroit Stories Quarterly.