Historical May days: Nazi Germany surrenders WWII May 7, 1945; Brown vs. Board of Education May 17, 1954, International Day for Biological Diversity May 22, 1993, and of course a mirriad of everyday fun things that Americans love to celebrate: Mother’s Day! We celebrate these ways of life and ...
You may recall that Dorothy and Toto didn’t move fast enough to join Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in the storm cellar. A cyclone born of chaos had picked them up and transported them to unfamiliar surroundings, causing Dorothy to exclaim: “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore!” They ...
To the Editor, At a time when Alpena High School students are asking for real leadership — to raise test scores and improve their education — certain members of the APS Board are instead fixated on where students use the bathroom. Let’s be honest: the proposed bathroom policy isn’t ...
Years ago, I watched a successful sales executive’s motivational speech to a group of junior staff. He invited to the stage one rookie salesman who related how he had helped his first client and made a load of money in the process. Success! The exec smiled out at the excited crowd and ...
APS should be ashamed of the example they set for their own students attending the last board meeting. Anna Meinhart and David Rabbideau lost control of the meeting by allowing clapping, cheering, booing, and even allowing personal attacks regarding board members by calling out school board ...
Early in my graduate school education, I was studying evolutionary biology. Two competing theories focused on the rate of change in the genetics of populations due to competition and the environment. One theory contended that most evolutionary change occurs slowly; this is called ...