Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it's a good thing. The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin "immediately" testing our "Nuclear Weapons" on "an equal basis" with Russia and China. It's not clear what this means exactly. Trump could be ...
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee In the fourth grade my class learned about thousands of years of Michigan history from the glaciers that carved out the Great Lakes to the Anishinaabe natives navigating the unprecedented introduction to ...
"Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" -- Henry Higgins Those are the words librettist Alan Jay Lerner penned for the fictional professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical "My Fair Lady," and honestly, it could have been the title of Helen Andrews' much-discussed recent essay in Compact. She ...
….says the Grand Wizard of the Alpena Public School Board, Eric Lawson. It appears as though he really doesn’t want to hear from the public. In September he created an extensive list of what could be said at school board meetings and what was prohibited, including clapping. Lawson even had ...
Fifty years is a long time. Maybe it isn’t quite as long today as it would have seemed in my mind years ago, but that’s because everything related to time takes on a new perspective when you are in your retirement years. Still, 50 years is in anyone’s accounting practices half a century ...
During my tenure as a Probate and Family Court Judge, I was occasionally asked to speak to various organizations. Delinquency, abuse, and neglect are all topics of perpetual interest in any caring community. In preparation for these appearances, I would update a chart I had previously ...