I mentioned in a baseball column that one of my favorite coaches was Jim VanParis. To remind you, we coached football against each other way back in 1962 and 1963 in tiny towns down near where Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana meet. My team beat his team for the only win in my short coaching ...

Textbooks summarize the science around a specific topic, such as forest or wildlife ecology. Because the natural world, our understanding of the natural world, and our interaction with the natural world all change, textbooks require regular updates of the peer-reviewed, scientific papers they ...

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Hello, Northeast Michigan! It is great to be here! I am a Michigan native, but lived in Texas and Florida for 44 years before retiring here to enjoy four seasons and Michigan outdoors. I have mainly been a truck driver, but was in the automobile business in Houston ...

The Alpena County Board of Commissioners, angry over perceived inaction on the part of Alpena County Library board members over controversial books on children’s and teen’s shelves at the library, voted this summer to oust and replace all of the library trustees. Now, the county board has ...

Swami has never seen anything like it. His computer screen always shows the temperature range for the day. While writing this article, it showed plummeting temps, and moments later temps were on the rise. The All-Knowing-One was depressed and excited in seconds. By later in the day, Swami was ...

For the better part of a decade, I was an adjunct professor teaching graduate-level students at Northern Kentucky University. During one of the classes I taught, I referred to a book entitled “Bowling Alone,” written by Harvard University professor Robert D. Putnam. Putnam’s premise ...