“No one really understands how simple and plain and predictable I am “Because all I ever wanted to do was to play guitar in a rock and roll band” — Everclear, “Short Blonde Hair” I was 12 years old, flipping through the channels when I landed on MTV and the video for ...

If you frequent any social media site, you’ve probably seen plenty of words that are referred to as “algospeak.” Algospeak, according to an article from the Washington Post, is code words or turns of phrases social media users have adopted to create a brand-safe lexicon that will avoid ...

The Alpena County Board of Commissioners made the right decision when it sent the Alpena County Library board back to the drawing board on a proposed property tax increase. The library board asked the county board to place on the ballot a single question that would ask voters to raise the ...

Not long ago, I wrote a column entitled “The way playgrounds used to be.” I lamented the loss of the big, gravity-challenging Twirl-a-Whirls, the tall steel slides one could run up to slide down, and those longboard teeter-totters capable of lifting troublesome taunters to heights that ...

Years ago, before I met my wife, before I got settled in my career, before I had money for anything, I lived for several years in a house owned by a friend. There were usually about four or five of us single guys paying a modest rent. We had meals together weekly, had a lot of fun, went to ...

Judge Ed Black of Alpena County’s 26th Circuit Court said he couldn’t fully end the decade-long dispute over how much Alpena Township should pay Alpena for water and sewer services. Instead, Black this week sent the two governments back to the bargaining table with some new rules to guide ...