“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Today is the 226th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Take a test on your constitutional knowledge, learn more about our nation’s founding document, or download a handy Constitution app!

The Detroit Free Press has performed a thorough financial autopsy on the Motor City. The piece is chock-full of charts, graphs and shocking details about the fall of the area once known as the Arsenal of Democracy.

“Detroit got into a trap of doing a lot of borrowing for cash flow purposes and then trying to figure out how to push costs (out) as much as possible,” said Bettie Buss, a former city budget staffer who spent years analyzing city finances for the nonpartisan Citizens Research Council of Michigan. “That was the whole culture — how do we get what we want and not pay for it until tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow?”

In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,  That mark our place; and in the sky  The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,  Loved and were loved, and now we lie        In Flanders fields.

Tatum Raetz’ daddy couldn’t make it to her kindergarten graduation. So hundreds of her adoptive daddies did.

Her father, Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz, was struck down in the line of duty over the weekend. While investigating a possible DUI, another driver killed him and fled the scene.