I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam ...
I consider myself a man of routines. Others, unfortunately, have called me a creature of habits. Obviously one of those descriptions is positive, the other not so much. I will let those of you who know me well have the final say as to which is more accurate. Harry Truman had a sign in his ...
Many years ago, sometime after Ronald Reagan replaced Pat Brown as governor of California, I was driving up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco and visited Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's epic mansion in San Simeon. It was state property then, donated by the Hearst family, and ...
What podcast do you listen to? Who’s your go-to person when you want to find information? These two questions are pretty common for people today in the modern podcast era. There are all sorts of podcasts that are out there, ranging from historical podcasts to political podcasts to ...
The Alpena News welcomes Letters to the Editor from residents in Northeast Michigan. These editorials are published weekly on Saturdays and can be found on A4 of our commentary section and The Alpena News website. Whether you’d like to comment on local politics, offer praise for a local ...
Sharyn Alfonsi represents the overweening pomposity of the hard-left partisans that have ruled CBS News. She responded to Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss with "resistance" lingo when her contract was not renewed. "This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize ...