“Something has come up and now I am unable to attend.” I just heard this for an event I was planning for the Association of Lifelong Learners. It made me think about how many times I had heard this. How many times have I said this myself? I wonder if we seniors are filling our calendars ...
The new state budget underfunds pensions and hands out pork. It reduces contributions into the pension system by $670 million and spends at least $702 million on district grants. Neither benefits the public. Elected officials accidentally made school employees the state’s largest ...
Dan Bauer, formally signed on last week as interim superintendent in Onaway Area School District, must work quickly to try to unite his school district so everyone can focus 100% on student achievement. Bauer’s appointment as interim superintendent — the Onaway school board on Thursday ...
Without a doubt, the most important duty state lawmakers have is to ride herd on the state budget, with oodles of your money in play — $83 billion oodles, in fact. With 148 legislators in the state House and state Senate, not everyone has a direct, hands-on assignment, under the heading, ...
It concerned us when the new chief of Alpena’s Michigan Brown Trout Festival called this year’s festival a “make or break year” for the 50-year-old festival as we know it. Last year, festival President Phil Paquette told News staff writer Steve Schulwitz for a recent story, the ...
Living in this part of Ohio, you learn to appreciate the nuances of the agricultural lifestyle. Some of the most down-to-Earth people I’ve ever met are farmers, and listening to their perspective on life has had a profound effect on me. It has challenged me to work harder, to complain ...