Many years ago, school taught us reading, writing, arithmetic, history, thinking, reasoning, and common sense as just part of getting an education. While learning about simple economics, an instructor asked the question, “Who pays corporate taxes?,” and we were instructed to write and ...
Last week started with a story about the 1997 rain and flood and the game we couldn’t get to. I’ll start this week’s column with a game the very next Friday. The game was at Hemlock against neighboring rival Saginaw Swan Valley. It was Hemlock’s homecoming game. Now, I need to ...
The Oct. 16 issue of The Alpena News carried an opinion piece titled, “We need new school ideas,” by Molly Macek. She represents the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, an organization that advocates for limited government and free-market approaches to public policy. Macek suggests that ...
Public schools are sacred. Despite our different affiliations, ambitions, origins, dispositions, and religions, they educate us. They are rocks upon which our community is built and sustained — sources of becoming and belonging. Why would Monica Dziesinski and Sarah Costain seek seats on ...
As a “city mouse,” I am fully aware that my fisheries and wildlife knowledge is not as extensive as others. So I will just jump in and ask the question as it occurred to me: “Roger” is an Elk. Big guy. Because he could have “raging hormones” in the fall, it was safest to put him ...
For four years, the Democrats, Kamala Harris, and the media tried to hide Joe Biden. But the little that America did see of him, we could tell he had major mental decline. But Democrats, Harris, and the media all said behind the scenes he’s “sharp as a tack,” “the best Joe Biden ...